I’d give him a push.
This morning I was given a Frog.
This is a true story. I received a phone call from a worried neighbour. She had found a frog and she wasn’t sure what it was. It looked liked a normal frog but it had orange spots all over it and this was the third orange spotted frog that she had seen. Would I have a look at it and tell her what it was?
I am always happy to help my neighbours.
Hmmm, this looks serious.
My guess is that this little frog is on his way to froggy heaven.
I have seen this kind of thing before. There is not much that you can do about it. Except push them back in the water.
So here we are, Froggy Heaven. (It is at the bottom of our garden)
I like a nice wet frog.
Run wild and free my little friend. Go and see if you can find my newt. I put her down here somewhere.
A Tramp in the Woods 
How sad that so many of our village ponds have disappeared. When I was small we used to hundred of tiny frogs migrating through our garden, now I would say I’ve seen less than 10 in the last few years.
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Thanks Stephen 🙂 We are lucky that the farm is at the bottom of gently sloping fields and out back it is really quite marshy. Not so good for the sheep but if it is very wet they go on the hillside.
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So what do the orange spots mean? It looks like the frog’s skin is coming away.
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Hi Emily Thanks 🙂 It is just algae that has dried on his skin or maybe seeds that he has picked up crossing the garden. I did not think to look around the garden in question for the orange seeds but if she has seen three orange spotted frogs then she has got something with orange seeds near to her back door. It all washed off.
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Ah good, that’s a relief!
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How odd, or not so odd. I have been thinking of frogs and ponds lately. Thank you for a great post.
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Thanks Carolyn 🙂
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My first batch of tadpoles turned to frogs this week! I have about four generations going now. I suppose I am a frog farmer now?
Nice pond 🙂
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Thanks SE 🙂 That sounds fantastic.
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Newts are great. We had them in the garden as kids. 40 years later I built a wildlife pond and was overjoyed when newts moved in. Frogs are good too except when they get overexcited and noisy – its amplexus time folks.
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Thanks Andrew 🙂 The other thing that I love to see is slow worms. You know that you are doing something right if you get slow worms in your compost heap.
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Sorry. delete that . I hit a lot of buttons at the wrong time.
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It is deleted my friend 🙂
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From the pics he looks like he is drying out, looks like a nice dip in the water cleared it up..:-)
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Thanks Ed 🙂 Yes absolutely right. He was a prisoner in an otherwise empty sandwich box and a little bit of wet grass soon put the sparkle back in him.
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I love frogs and toads and we ought to have lots in out garden. In our big pond we have lots of fish (carp and rudd) and visits from herons and tufted ducks. I also suspect we may have a turtle or terrapin which I am a little upset about. This may be why we don’t have so many frogs. What do you think?
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Wow, that second one has a pretty bad case of tiny green leaf disease. I’m glad they have froggy heaven to escape to!
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Great pictures. I have frogs in my 5 ponds. Great to listen to them at night. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
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