Last week, my neighbours somewhat neglected pond was full of frogs and toads, the noise coming from it put McCartneys frog chorus to shame.
My stepson has been carefully retrieving any frog or toad that he’s found in the road on his ‘adventures’ and we ended up with a small toad in our pond.
The racket that this thing made was incredible, so the mob next door seem to have come under the fence to join him, well our pond is deeper, cleaner and full of plants.
It is now a seething mass of frogs and toads, the amount of frogspawn has started to displace the water, as I write they are all croaking away, and it tends to go on all night. Our dogs think it’s wierd and sit there staring at them.
I don’t know what Mr Pike thinks of all this, I presume he knows he’s in for a good feast, I’m surprised he hasn’t had a go at the frogs yet, maybe he has, theres so many that one missing wouldn’t be noticed.
I don’t know what the growth rate in frogs is over a year, but I doubt that any of these are the original offspring from our last years tadpoles, I also gather that the survival rate amongst tadpoles is incredibly low, ie if you have a typical pond full of frogspawn, only about 10 frogs will hop off into the wild, and what will their survival rate be.

But, any that do survive, plus the ones now domestically set up in your pond…..will be back next year to lay more.

Beautiful creatures, but can be a pest when too many.