The pond
The pond is a ruin. I'm going to clear it out.
The pond has already been a grass colony for many year. Grass roots mass up with the pebbles to make a very hard to remove blanket weed.
I lifted up the blanket of grass and picked out the pebbles. now we got more room for frogs and their off-spring.
Frogs in my garden
There is a small pond in my back garden, and a big frog family living in that muddy pond. One day I heard a low-pitched croak (or Quack?), and saw a frog jumping out of the grass. This must be a male frog calling his mate, because I soon saw another frog appeared, and they did some very INDESCENT things. Forgive me! I took a picture of them, and post on here.
I don't know what the specie it belong to, but sounds like a bullfrog, because the call is very deep and low-pitched. Those frog in my back garden pond seldom quack, they might be well-educated Middle Class family, very polite and considerate, never make annoying noise to disturb their neighbours.
In my memory, frogs are very noisy, especially after a thunderstorm, all of the frogs take part in the chorus, they whistle, trill, croak, grunt, moan, snore, countless other sounds, some are low pitched, others are high-pitched. It's said couch's spadefoot sounds like a lamb bleating, the wood frog quacks, the carpenter frog's call is like a rhythmic hammering, and the Bullfrog has that familiar, deep harrumph.
There are so many frog egg masses in this muddy pond, at least 10 clusters, if one hundred eggs per cluster, there should be ten thousands of tadpoles swimming in this small area. If all of them develop into froglets, what a terrible scenic will come to pass, thousands of froglets hoping around my garden and our neighbours', such as that frog disaster recorded in Bible which happened in acient Egypt! But, it's said, "since frog eggs are a favorite delicacy of many predators, laying the eggs in large numbers usually assures that at least a few will hatch into tadpoles, and an even fewer number will grow to be adults."
