After a long winter’s nap, two frogs in our goldfish pond awakened from their underwater siesta and emerged on the side of the pond. Being cold-blooded, when the water gets cold, frogs simply sink to the bottom, go dormant and don’t breathe again until they are stirred by warming weather. Then when it warms to a certain tolerable temperature, the frogs spring back to life and surface.
Not long after the frogs “hatched”, they began to move around, probably searching for food since there was really none in the pond. I’m hoping they’ll come back and stick around for a while. Soon, we’ll make our annual trip to Springdale Gardens in Greenville to stock up on pond supplies and buy a few bullfrog tadpoles so next come winter, it’ll happen all over again.
