Six I counted 'em when I saw them all out at the same time. Didn't want to make a mistake. If one on a rock jumps in and pops up some where elese how do i know it's not another one. I had to see them all out cause some of the frogs look alike. That’s how many
we had this year. Our back yard frog
home has grown in a dozen years; well, population wize, the pond isn'tany larger. Out of the six we can tell four in particular and two look like twins. Oh, brother, frogs twins, who would have imagined.
Now I have
noted the frog burp, which to me is a better word for the sound they make than croak. The burp I heard late at night.
There would be one, then twenty seconds later
another, and so on through the night. I never
thought of frogs as temperature indicators as crickets are, but I’ll have to
consider it a possibility.
It is the time of the season for the mating frogs to go off
to the other frog ponds. After a month of frog frolic they'llhop back some rainy night to
winter in their home pond.
This is more knowledge that I expected to acquire a dozen years ago when I first
said, “Hey, we’ve got a frog in our pond.”
1 comment:
It's the best kind of knowledge- personal experience of the frog kind. We get toads in my yard. They live somewhere buried in our garage, and come outside late at night. We also love our snails- they come out at night from the planters when the temperature is hot and humid (pretty much all of the time in the summer where I live). You never realize how much you can enjoy watching snails slowing moving across a sidewalk, or frogs burping in a pond, until you experience them.
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