First Frog of Summer

[Editors note: Guest post by Deb Woodell via my Show Off Your Wildlife Garden link. Is YOUR garden next?]

First Frog of Summer 2010, Backyard pond, Winslow Twp. NJ

I never deliberately intended to create a haven for any sort of wildlife, but frogs showed up at this pond on their own about 5-6 years ago. Last fall, some animal knocked a piece of driftwood into the pond, overturning the pump and nearly emptying the pond. Fortunately, the pond shell was fine, so I refilled and hoped for the best. I’ve spotted tadpoles all spring – so I guess the pond was never totally emptied – and now, along comes this frog. And it looks as if there will be many more.

I’m totally a lay person when it comes to wildlife, but I try my best to make my yard hospitable to wild creatures.

I live on the edge of the Pinelands in Winslow Township, NJ, in a pretty rural area. I work full time on the sports copy desk of the Phila. Daily News. I teach copy editing as an adjunct at Rowan University and I am studying GIS at Rowan, with the hope of using it for the Daily News or our newly created entity, Philadelphia Media Network.
In my spare time, I blog about honey and cemeteries and land use

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