Tadpoles

I have a couple of ornamental ponds in my back yard. Last year I had a bunch of toads "mating" in it. They make a loud noise when they are calling to each other. This year they came back to mate. Last year I never noticed tadpoles. Yesterday Carl and I were putting the pumps in to start the waterfalls again and look what we found.

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They are thousands of them! They are everywhere you look in the pond. We have goldfish in the pond so I am sure some of them will be eaten but even if an 1/8 of them live there are going to be a lot of toads around our house. It is so hard to believe. And I wonder how I missed the tadpoles last year. It will be fun to watch them grow into toads too.

That a lot of tadpoles!!! Should be alot of fun keeping track of them as they grow! I just hope they are smart enough to stay out of the dog area once they start hoping around!!!

When I was a kid, we always got a surprise when we took the pool cover off each summer. My favorite was the year it was filled with tadpoles :). My least favorite was the year it was filled with mosquito's :(

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Originally Posted by 4 Dog Mother

... there are going to be a lot of toads around our house.

It will be fun to watch them grow into toads too.

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Another Mother of Many! :)

Are ya gonna NAME 'em as TaddyPoles or wait till they're Hoppy Toads?

They should help to hold down the Mosquito population in the yard!

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I wonder how many will survive, between birds and fish? It's always fun watching them grow, though.