Great to read all your comments. After the disaster of the cold weather we have had loads of frogspawn which have hatched out into loads of tadpoles. All the frogs have now disappeared except 2 which appeared lifeless in the pond for a couple of days and when fished out were dead. Is this a virus , just a result of the cold weather or just old age?!
Last week we foung 5 dead frogs near the pond. They appeared on 3 seterate days. They were all in the same place on the patio. All of them had no heads, and the rest of their bodies were in tact...... has anyone any ideas as to what has caused this gruesome event!!!....
I found a dead frog on the lawn 3 weeks and took no notice of it as these things happen now and again. I have been out today (first time in a couple of weeks) and there are six mumified frogs all over the lawn. Lucky they have spawned but what would cause so many deaths - would it be a passing cat? or maybe next doors dog? or disease?
There is a swimming pool next door that has not been used for a few years. After taking my dog for his walk over in the national trust grounds where this pool is situated, I found many dead frogs around it, I then looked in the pool and to my horror there were loads of dead frogs at the bottom?
I spotted a dead fish floating in the smaller of my two ponds. I cleared the sludge from the pond using a net. I found found about 10 bloated dead frogs on the bottom - and about 8 dead fish. Can someone tell me - is this caused by the pond freezing over for 4 days while I was away in winter - or disease. The pond is about 6000 gallons. If it is disease - do I need to empty the pond completely and start again? Adice appreciated.
I have just noticed dead frogs in my g pond today 21/4/10 at least seven so far and it loks like there is more down there, and any frog spawn there has disappeared also, until T I saw this blog Ihad no idea what killed them
I found a female frog in my pond last week. She was spending a lot of time diving to the bottom then bobbing to the top and desperately trying to scrabble out. I fished her out and found that there were signs of attack. Probably jabbed by a magpie. She was very weak so I put her into a cool damp area of the garden to recover. The next night I went out with my torch and found her huddled at the edge of the pond again. This seemed like a good sign. Two days later I found her dead in the pond. She was very thin. I think her wounds were infected and she couldn't find enough food to survive. Has anyone contacted 'Froglife' about all these dead frogs? They specialise in the conservation of amphibians.
Happy to say still lots of tadpoles in our pond. Also lots of damselflies and dragonflies have appeared from our pond. Must say a pleasure to see after the disaster of the winter. Our pond only one year old but well worth doing.
Hi Froglets. I'm happy to say that I have a frog that spent it's days in my new pond over the last few weeks. I have high hopes for tadpoles next year. A damselfly visited yesterday too so things are looking up :~}
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or maybe next doors dog? or disease?
pond today 21/4/10 at least seven so far and it loks like there is more down there, and any frog spawn there has disappeared also, until T
I saw this blog Ihad no idea what killed them