Excitement in the frog pond

The other night, the trilling of toads in our frog pond was SO loud. I guess for those few nights it was a TOAD pond.

It wasn't quite sundown yet so we could still see very well. The boys very excitedly came to me and said "Come, come...you have to see all the toads! Can you hear them??" I had been hearing them and was enjoying the sounds of Spring.





The males were trilling in an effort to identify themselves to the females. Levi can trill perfectly -just like one! So when they would quiet down, he would get them going again. It makes me smile just to think of it.

Can you see the eggs trailing behind them?? It was so neat. There are loads of them in the pond now! All in all, we counted 20 toads and I'm sure there were more back under the rock ledges - we could hear them trilling. This went on for three nights and there are still a few out there waiting for mates I suppose.

Our little pond is in need of some repair and I had been thinking I would drain it, sand it and reseal it. But now it has become a tadpole pond and that job will have to wait. :)