The life of the pond has been well chronicled on this blog. Including the Heron, Frogs, a special needs fish and Koimageddon. But this bears swim was, I believe, the most amazing event yet....Read More
On Friday in Quartzite I saw two buzzards Then on Saturday Nurit showed me two very large Hawks building a nest in a tree across the street. On Sunday a pair of ducks visited our pond and swimming poo...Read More
The koi died in Koimageddon a year or two ago. The pond is now an amphibian sanctuary. Home to a few dozen Water Lilies, a few gold fish, guppies, lots of polliwogs and a nightly frog concert. Histo...Read More
Yesterday Nurit excitedly called me to the back window. “He’s back!” Sure enough a Great Blue Heron had stopped by the pond to investigate. Unfortunately because of Koimageddon t...Read More
Well a frog. At least one. Back in July I got some pictures of thousands of tadpoles in the pond. Yesterday, while we were winterizing the pond, Lilli saw a small frog sitting on a lily pad. W...Read More
The pond went bad in the last week or so. Even with no fish we had an algae bloom which is pretty ugly and most of the tadpoles have vanished. I don’t think they’re hiding. Reuben my &...Read More
A new photo of the tadpoles in the pond shows a dramatic growth in their size and an equal and opposite decrease in their numbers. July 24, 2011 July 20, 2011 To be fair some of the number decrease mi...Read More
The frog eggs have definitely hatched so I caught a Ball Jar full of them and took a picture. As you can see they are tiny and there are lots. This was one scoop with the tiny net. This is a top v...Read More
Those frog eggs that I showed in last weeks pond post are now tadpoles. Lillian discovered them over the weekend and found a link to a small website that explains lots about the Bull Frog life cycle.Â...Read More
