Saturday 19 February 2011

The garden is alive with the sound of croaking

The larger of our two ponds has been wriggling for the last few hours - literally wriggling due to all the frogs. I had been trying to count the number of new clumps of spawn each day, but with over 30 frogs in the pond today I've had to give up. As usual when I tried to get close most of the frogs dived under the surface, but this shot, rather blurred and taken at a distance should give you an idea of what it was like:

The croaking was so loud it could be heard in the kitchen (the pond is at the bottom of the garden, several metres away). I took some videos with my camera to record the sound of croaking, but the images are terribly poor so I switched to a video camera after lunch. Hopefully I'll figure out how to edit a bit of the video and post it here in a few days.



6 comments:

Mag said...

Goodness! This is wonderful!! Stunning photos - do you post on Flickr? I want to Favorite!

Helen said...

Thanks Mag. I'm on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/hjedwards/sets/

but I haven't uploaded any photos there for a while. Will hopefully catch up soon.

Mag said...

Thanks!

:-))

Baby Leo said...

Frogs are Cute :D Not sure if any in our pond yet but suspect so ;)

Scriptor Senex said...

Wow. I bet it's weeks before we get our frogs and even then there won't be anything like that many.

GB said...

Just love those photos. I must find out if I've still got a pond back in Eagleton. Apparently the weather has taken its toll on the garden this year.