This morning we discovered these little visitors in our garden:
About a dozen of them, maybe more, come back to this part of the garden to mate - which they mostly did in our old guinea-pig run - no idea why, and it didn't look particularly comfortable!!
They all look very individual - the marking on their backs are totally different and really unique - some are completely different colours!
And below is them, looking for the pond. Which we filled in as soon as we moved in two years ago in a panic about children drowning and a husband with a frog phobia. This really upsets me now. Last year I was heavily pregnant and couldn't do anything except feel sad about the frogspawn on the grass, but this year, having researched the whole thing a lot more, I really couldn't just do nothing again. So we've created a mini-pond (just emptied some rainwater into a big old dustbin lid with some rocks in it) and tucked it into the bushes. And we're using EFT to work on Phil's frog phobia - he's been amazing actually, coming outside to look at them several times and not arguing with me about welcoming them instead of trying to get rid of them! I've persuaded him they'll be great for the slug problem, and he's intrigued by their colours too - mostly after looking at the photos, not close up in real life though! And this evening, when I went out to check on them, the little pond is a teeming mass of ribbeting froggies and there's a whole batch of lovely frogspawn floating around under the water. I think we'll have to work out a way of sinking a little pond into the ground with some water plants too and cover it. At least we know they can climb through the chicken wire with no problems after their guinea-pig run adventures!!
I'm really excited to have them out there and can't wait to see if we get some tadpoles!
About a dozen of them, maybe more, come back to this part of the garden to mate - which they mostly did in our old guinea-pig run - no idea why, and it didn't look particularly comfortable!!
They all look very individual - the marking on their backs are totally different and really unique - some are completely different colours!
And below is them, looking for the pond. Which we filled in as soon as we moved in two years ago in a panic about children drowning and a husband with a frog phobia. This really upsets me now. Last year I was heavily pregnant and couldn't do anything except feel sad about the frogspawn on the grass, but this year, having researched the whole thing a lot more, I really couldn't just do nothing again. So we've created a mini-pond (just emptied some rainwater into a big old dustbin lid with some rocks in it) and tucked it into the bushes. And we're using EFT to work on Phil's frog phobia - he's been amazing actually, coming outside to look at them several times and not arguing with me about welcoming them instead of trying to get rid of them! I've persuaded him they'll be great for the slug problem, and he's intrigued by their colours too - mostly after looking at the photos, not close up in real life though! And this evening, when I went out to check on them, the little pond is a teeming mass of ribbeting froggies and there's a whole batch of lovely frogspawn floating around under the water. I think we'll have to work out a way of sinking a little pond into the ground with some water plants too and cover it. At least we know they can climb through the chicken wire with no problems after their guinea-pig run adventures!!
I'm really excited to have them out there and can't wait to see if we get some tadpoles!
1 comment:
oh I love frogs! Lucky you to have the whole lifecycle going on in your own backgarden. I always think it is fascinating that they return to where they spawned from, clever little froggies!
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