A green frog? Hmm let me look this up. Yea it does look a green frog, and read this: "Green frogs are relatively large frogs, 6 - 9 cm in length. They can be distinguished from the similar bullfrog by the ridges that run down each side of their back. (The ridges on bullfrogs are only around the eardrum.) To determine the sex of the green frog, look at its eardrum - if it is significantly larger than its eye it's a male, if it's the same size as its eye, it's a female. During the breeding season, you can also tell the males by their yellow throats." Thats what was getting me, the ridge down the back didnt match the pics of bullfrogs. Looks to be a male green frog. Thanks!

papnnana........I think nature waxes and wanes. I know I got water snakes in my little watergarden for a number of years, then nothing for the past 4-5 years. I try not to be happy about that! I've saved a couple frogs from the jaws of the snakes......but they need to eat too. It's hard to know who to cheer for! So.....you might be in one of those "not very many frogs around" years. Do you live in the city/suburbs/country? I live in the country and pretty close to a creek.....so I do wonder if that brings them closer. I never heard tree frogs until we had a couple little stocktank ponds......now there are a ton of them in the summer. I wonder if you have a pump in your pond? Sometimes I think they hear the water running and that attracts them. And of course, the kind of predators you have around can make a difference too. Let us know what kind of pond environment you have and maybe we can give you more suggestions. I found about 8 dead frogs in my inground 300 gallon stocktank one spring. I was soooo sad. I think I figured out that I was keeping it too warm all winter, with a deicer that was much too large for it. So now, I keep the pump running for as long as possible, and when it starts to get frozen (the pond and the pump), I put in a very small deicer.....just to keep a small hole open in the ice. I just keep my fingers crossed that there's enough oxygen in there to keep them alive until I can get the pump going again. This weekend it's supposed to be around 1 degree at night. :( What kind of frogs did you used to have? I have mostly tree frogs, then green, and once I had a couple bullfrogs who didn't stay around very long.............which was sorta okay with me. I love hearing their croaking......but I've heard they eat everything and everything, including small children. ;) I'm a big bird fan, so the last thing I want to see is a bullfrog eating a bird. But.......I guess that's just nature, but like I said, it's hard to know who to cheer for! Good luck with your frogs!

Somewhere I have pictures of one that is turquoise and brown. I'll look for them and scan them. I have wondered if it has to do with the water or minerals in the water. The turquoise frog was in a pond that was in a natural cavity in some rocks, so the water might have been heavily laden with some kind of mineral. However, not all the frogs had the turquoise. The rest were brown/green. Anne

Diane, you should be hearing toads calling by now. It is a loud high pitched trill they let out. And you should find toad spawn or tadpoles in the Barrie area this time of year. Whether or not you want toad tadpoles is up to you. Next year there will be more adult toads around your pond vying for a mate and the noise can be deafening and maybe annoying to your neighbours. Green frogs and Bullfrogs are a bit later in mating and spawning than the toads. Leopard frogs should be spawning about the same time in your area. Green frogs and Leopard frogs are my first choice to have around. Green frogs will eat the small Leopard frogs. Bullfrogs will eat all the other frogs and birds and anything else they can fit into their mouths! "Horton"