Frogs galore……

One of the great things about making a wildlife pond is that you know it is a habitat that will be used.  Sometimes a bird box can remain unoccupied for years or it may not be obvious that a log pile has regular inhabitants.  But ponds are different.  This year, the ‘new’ pond we made three years ago is absolutely heaving with frogs, mating and laying spawn.  This is not a big pond either.  The very large pond we made when we first arrived here is used by toads and newts which are happy with the deeper water, but the new pond is obviously perfect for frogs.   It’s brilliant to put in a little hard work and create something that is used so much and does the job it was designed for.  It’s also a magnet for finches looking for a drink, dragonflies and damselflies breed here, but it is now definitely our ‘frog’ pond.  Over the last few days it has been a boiling cauldron of activity and is full to the brim with spawn.