{"id":1922,"date":"2013-06-19T21:43:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T02:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2013-06-19T21:43:53","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T02:43:53","slug":"frogging-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sun-dancing.net\/blog\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"Frogging at night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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!<\/p>\n

\"DSCN1708\"<\/a>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.\u00a0 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!\"DSCN1711\"<\/a>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!<\/p>\n

Here’s a younger fella – doing his nighttime love song routine….\"DSCN1715\"<\/a>Ahhh- young love…<\/p>\n

\"DSCN1716\"<\/a>I will be posting some more nocturnal adventures pretty soon, since there is so much stuff going on out there at night.<\/p>\n

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