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[Peter Butler]

On such a beautiful day I was in the field with my dogs when a strange noise came from our large pond.  A sort of grunting/croaking sound which was quite loud and continuous.   On closer inspection I could see the surface of the water bubbling and splashing and hundreds of tiny heads were sticking out of the water.   Frogs in their masses were frantically mating, no doubt taking full advantage of the fine weather, and frogspawn was everywhere.
The pictures (uncensored) are shown below, so parental control is advised....







The pictures aren't great but you can clearly see the number of little heads there.  The strange thing is that despite this annual event, we see so few frogs during the year even though there are always thousands of tadpoles.... where do they go?

[LNR]

I believe that frogs are supposed to be a good indicator of a healthy eco system, Peter. Your pond must be a good clean environment. I think there is a fairly high attrition rate with tadpoles and young frogs, specially if you have a good bird population.
Grant.

[philipy]

The pictures aren't great but you can clearly see the number of little heads there.  The strange thing is that despite this annual event, we see so few frogs during the year even though there are always thousands of tadpoles.... where do they go?

We have a smallish pond in our garden with a very healthy frog population. For the past few nights they've been croaking away happily at about 9-10pm. That usually means we can expect frogspawn in the next few days.
During the later summer it gets ridiculous, the number of frogs in the garden, turn any stick or leaf and there seems to be a frog under it, stay still and you'll see small ones the size of a little finger nail hopping about.
However the spawn and smaller tadpoles are voraciously eaten by the goldfish ( of which we also have far too many!), and I have seen bigger dead ones on the grass which I'm sure the local killer cats have got.  :evil:

[LNR]

My pond is quite small, and used to have twelve fish in it. A white faced Heron got one, then cats got eleven, but I found one on the ground still alive, despite the sun and various puncture wounds where the cat had played with it. Put it in the water, gently eased the air out of it, and it's the only survivor and the incident was years ago. The pond now has a permanent net over it unfortunately. No frogs though, so am envious of you guys.
Grant.

[Big Jim]

A police raid at Kermits lily pad discovered 5000 pictures of Miss Piggy in the nude...
Apparently it was the most frogs porn officers had ever seen.


I'll get my coat.

[MDLR]

G - R - O - A - N !!

[dizzysteamer]

ROTFL

Steph