Having a pond right outside your bedroom door affords itself to tons of nighttime pond watching. This year has been a little slow in the nocturnal water lily department, since it took a nasty bite when we had a late freeze. But this did not stop the Gulf Coast toads and leopard frogs from showing up!

Now this guy is BIG! Scared me half to death last night trying to put the toad screens into the pond filters so they wouldn’t drown in the filter. I had a hard time grabbing him and throwing him back out into the pond. He fought me all the way.  But I got him tossed him back into the pond. He climbed right up next to me onto a rock to which he clung like it was his last chance at air!Here’s Dick’s hand next to this fella. And when he’s stretched out swimming away – he’s even bigger. I sure wonder where he came from. I did not see him here last year. He’s certainly seen some younger days!

Here’s a younger fella – doing his nighttime love song routine….Ahhh- young love…

I will be posting some more nocturnal adventures pretty soon, since there is so much stuff going on out there at night.