General Chat

My brother used to have a town garden with 3 ponds in it. He said that, this time of year, it was like a beach party out there, or else a bit like Club Tropicana if you can remember the video!

Nudged up for Naomi ! Looked tonight and could only see a few, but iI think they dive for cover when its about to rain - which it did. Still no legs ! Rick.

Rick I think one of your frogs must have turned up at mine last night, I opened my front door to put some rubbish out and one was sitting on my front door step staring at me! - I wasnt sure if it was my prince in disguise and if it was waiting for me to kiss it, but it saw my cat and hopped off before I had a chance to decide if to kiss it or scream at it :-)

Cheers Rick - waiting in anticipation! Good result today!

Still no sign of any legs!! Any one else?

No legs yet and they are coming up to two months old

Looked for tadpoles today, but could only see one ! Still legless. Rick.

Well I saw two tadpoles today. One was dead on top of the leaf of a water lily and the other was swimming around with no legs still. Think a lot must have died, cos there's no sign of the big numbers that hatched out. At least it will make it easier to think of names for them ;-) The good news is there were 7 adult frogs lounging around in there too. Seemed like a good idea, so I got the sun lounger out ! Rick.

Whooppee i have got legs sorry i mean the tadpoles have only counted four with legs all my tadpoles are in their own little pond i didnt want the fish to have taddy pole lunch so i have got loads of them

I have a wild life pond in my garden and i just leave it to nature no filter ,just plenty of weed and pond plants water stays crystal clear and it is heaving not only with tadpoles but newts as well,they leave the pond in the Autumn and return in the spring to spawn just like frogs but they lay there eggs on the leaves of the plants .I had so many last year i gave a lot to the local school who had just made a wild life pond .Looks as if i am over run again this year ,but i love it . Val from Kent

Lynda, Yeah - Henry, Ronaldo, Beckham....... LOL ! Rick.

Just for you Rick http://www.froggyville.com/froggy cam/htm

Good news ! Killed off the algae again yesterday and can now see through the water :-) There are quite a few tadpoles in there still and they are getting really big. Still not growing legs though. There are also about half a dozen adult frogs.

Thanks for that link Jan. GC ate part of it as usual - it should be www.froggyville(.)com/froggycam.htm Seems to be offline at the moment but I'll try again another time.

OMG !!!! They've only gone and grown legs !!!!! And there are loads of them too. Rick.

Bats ! Is what you're thinking of Val ;-) I was on about the tadpoles !!! Rick.

Ha !!! A froglet about the size of my fingernail just hopped out of the pond. And about time too - just hope the cat doesn't get it. Rick.

WE dont have a pond at all but get frogs galore hopping round our garden BOB has to watch when hes mowing the grass as a few times hes almost had a mashed up frog in the mower. our niebour has a pond also we live on the back of a park and lots come from there PLUS squirrels and foxes and sparrow hawks who kill lots wild birds , still thats nature isnt it?? JEAN.

Time for an update I think. Well I still have loads of adult frogs in the pond, but they are now joined by loads of little ones too. There are certainly enough for a football team, so if you're reading Lynda I am naming after the Chelsea squad. Not so much Didier Drogba as Diddy Frogba but you get the idea :-) The cat now spends all day chasing them around, but thankfully doesn't actually seem to hurt them. I'm sure they wish she'd get tired of it though ! Rick.

ok - in view of what's going on on the chat board right now i think this deserves a nudge. rick. *no frogs in my pond*