Ahh, making gold fish food, are they?
Jim

I wish. There is a whole new glob of toad eggs mixed in with one of the plants and we already have a whole mess of tadpoles about to grow legs and hop out of there. I try not to feed the goldfish too often hoping they might eat some of those eggs, but most of the time they don't touch them.

Too cute :-) That one looks like a cartoon character with striped eyes! Thanks for posting the pictures!

Want a roadrunner?????

He looks like he is having fun. I wish I had more of them around my yard. I use chems almost not at all, but, still no frigs.

Carrie, you are so funny! :-) I saw your post on the conversations page. I've had to deal with a lot of wildlife, but so far no roadrunners! Sorry that you do.

But anyway about toads, you find them in the strangest places. When I went to pour some water out of my watering can a while ago only a few drips would come out. I unscrewed the end and looked in to see a little nose with eyes looking out. Not sure what those eyes belonged to I gently prouded with a stick and out into the can of water plopped a toad! Since the can had water in it the only way he could keep from drowning was to crawl up into the nozzel! I'll have to not let a half full can sit around for even a day anymore.

Yes RC, toads are nice to have around. I love to hear them chirping at night. Around here there are plenty as they reproduce in the creek bed after a rain.

Thanks again Denise for the great pictures.

I had started to water my Pink Sunburst canna with fertilizer last week, and just as I was about to pour, I saw a little green tree frog nestled down in one of the leaves --- so cute. Needless to say - the canna did not get fertilized that day.

Sad news about one of the toads. After school a couple days ago, my son looked into the pond and saw a toad under the water. It had drowned. I have some places where it is easy for them to get out, but this one was on the side where it would have been difficult for it to climb out. Although I was talking to a friend whose dad was a snake/reptile/amphibian expert and she said that the toads mating with it could have worn it out too and maybe that is why it drowned. Poor little thing. I got it out with a net and dug a hole to bury it in my garden. I thought of putting it into the trash can, but it would have been another week before the trash gets picked up again and the smell probably would have been horrible! So, burying it was the best thing to do. It will still be of benefit to my garden - just in a different way.

Carrie - I wouldn't mind road runners, but our dogs would probably chase them away. I get so mad when my lab, Charlie, catches birds! I think he tries to have a soft mouth, but clenches down just a little bit too hard. He usually brings them to us like he wants to show us what he caught. They're usually still alive when he spits them out, but the next day I will find them dead in the yard, so it could be they had some sort of internal injuries we couldn't see from the outside.