A goal of mine has been accomplished. For a number of years, we have had frogs show up in our small lily pond, but they always abandoned their digs before winter. We never had one to stick around – until this year. With our new and improved frog/goldfish pond, we had a couple frogs going into late fall and then they were no longer visible. I read that when the temperature drops below a certain point, the frogs basically shut off their thermostats and sink to the bottom of a pond or burrow under rocks or plants. A week back, when I went out to feeds the fish, I heard a “ker-plunk”. Mr. Frog was alive and well and had made it through the winter.
I’m not sure if he was the bullfrog that we had raised from a tadpole or one of several leopard frogs that just showed up. One day there were no leopard frogs and the next day they were.
I am fascinated with frogs, and I love having them around, In the summer I supplement their natural diets of flies and bugs with a few juicy meal worms. It’s fun to see then snatch a meal worm off a lily pad.
So, you’ll be reading more about my frog farms as the spring progresses – and thank goodness, spring is on the way.
