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In honor of National Save The Frogs Day I wanted to make our readers aware of just how desperate frogs are for decent places to live and breed, and how fast frogs will find a new water feature. It’s a direct result of there being so little high-quality habitat in the wild. Every little pond or water feature is a beacon, and I certainly don’t have to tell our pond builders out there how quickly the dragonflies and butterflies and birds and frogs respond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One\u00a0particular example\u00a0always brings a smile to my face. Many years\u00a0ago\u00a0we were\u00a0asked to\u00a0build a circular patio for a customer\u00a0at\u00a0this time of year, in the back\u00a0yard of a new subdivision. With rain on the way, we worked furiously to dig out the clay in a 16\u2019 diameter circle to about\u00a010\u201d\u00a0deep\u00a0before the storm. The rain hit just as we finished\u00a0raking and tamping the soil. And it rained. And it rained. It rained for\u00a0over\u00a0a week. When we got back to the site to finish up\u00a0almost two weeks later, as we were unloading the tools and\u00a0wheelbarrows ,\u00a0we noticed\u00a0our circular excavation was filled to the brim\u00a0with rainwater. Not unexpected, but\u00a0the water\u00a0itself\u00a0looked\u00a0very strange\u00a0indeed \u2013 it was\u00a0jet black in color!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We came closer, and the black water MOVED.\u00a0Now we were really interested and dropped to our knees for a better look. Up close, we could see tens of thousands of tiny moving dots, only about an eighth of an inch long, wriggling furiously away from us.\u00a0I\u00a0rinsed\u00a0out my\u00a0coffee cup and scooped a few\u00a0dozen\u00a0up to take a better look.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were two shapes visible \u2013 the first, a black tear drop, round in front, trailing off to a tiny tail. The vast majority of the wrigglers were this shape. The others, far fewer, were tiny transparent footballs, fatter in the middle, with two black dots \u2013 eyes! They were tadpoles and fish fry! We couldn\u2019t figure out how they got there in their thousands \u2013 still don\u2019t know to this day. But we did our best to save them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started late that day, after visiting three of our projects in the local area and dumping a bucket of wriggling tadpoles and tiny fry in each. The tadpoles turned out to be spring peepers which found their way out of the ponds and into the trees that season. We still have populations of the fish, a small native minnow, in many of my ponds, where they are excellent insect control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME!\u00a0Celebrate Save The Frogs Day on April 25th! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Author:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DEMI FORTUNA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Demi has been in water garden construction since 1986. As Atlantic\u2019s Director of Product Information, if he\u2019s not building water features, he\u2019s writing or talking about them. If you have a design or construction question, he\u2019s the one to ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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