Jim's Frog Blog

The turtle pictured to the right is no more. He was a good turtle and did his job well. His job was to fill the pond 3 times a day. Not all...

Coop is actually a Cooper's Hawk. I discussed this marvelous bird last November in this post.   It isn't surprising that nothing has...

I was taking out the trash after dinner the other evening and noticed the pictured insect on the window screen.  She (most are anyway so it...

A new visitor to the yard caught my eye this past week.  I'm think'n these birds must be on their way south for the winter as I'...

I often rationalize to myself that if I had a decent camera then I would be able to take decent pictures.  Using my Nikon Cool Pix 4800 (cir...

The Red Crossbill is a bird.  I recently saw first hand why it's called a Crossbill and readily admit I was amazed.  The Crossbill famil...

I haven't forgotten y'all.  Things have been slow and uneventful.  The usual birds are here, the who-who birdies, sparrows and finch...

About 10 years ago I was visiting my sister in Las Vegas, Nevada.  We were sit'n around one morning discussing possible fun things to do...

The older I get the faster it goes.  It, in this case is, of course, time.  The one resource that is not renewable... ever. Apparently the...

Way back in the late 1970's, maybe it was 1977... maybe a little earlier, could be later... I'm not sure, but way back around there ...

This morning, Wednesday, started out pretty normal. I was up before the sun, checked my email, stumbled around the backyard with a coffee ca...

Remember the two baby toads I put in the pot trellis garden?  One sat on the tip of my finger and the other was rescued from the dreaded ski...

I've started to check the skimmer every day if not twice a day. The thought of one of those little toads fight'n for hours and then ...

Today is our   1 Year Anniversary for this Frog Blog! Over the course of the last 365 days I've published over 100 blog entries.  I...

I decided I needed to be checking the skimmer more often based on the latest discovery of the 2 baby toads found on Tuesday.  To that end on...

The flapper on the front of my skimmer basket broke last week when I was cleaning the skimmer. It had been repaired once a few years ago so ...

My daughter lives in the mountains northwest of Ft. Collins, Colorado with her husband and 2 sons.  Of course she is an avid reader of the F...

Back in a past life I learned about sailing.  I went to sailing school both in the classroom and on the water.  I learned a lot of things......

At least one out of thousands managed to survive!  On the first Sunday in August Ginger saw a fairly large toadpole in the Bridge Pond.  Whe...

When I was a youngster, way back when frogs had tails and ruled the world, my mother bought a Chinese bar. It was hand carved and painted go...

On Thursday when Ginger told me she was going to water the pot trellis I jumped up, grabbed my camera and assumed the position assigned me ...

It seems like everyone has seen one of the baby toads. Everyone but me that is. On Wednesday about 4 PM that officially changed. On Tuesday ...

I have 3 birdhouses along the back fence.  I've mentioned them a few times but pretty much they are just there.  On Tuesday morning I wa...

With Joe still missing and the loss of so many of the toadpoles, things are a bit slow out back.  We are, however, still smile'n about t...

 Ginger was watering plants Tuesday afternoon and noticed a very small toad trying to escape the stream of water.  It had been sitting on so...

Hummers, like dynamite, TNT and C-4 are explosive and come in small packages... all packages of this gender require respect and care or bad ...

The summer heat is upon us like it was July or August.  I remember one 110 degree plus day in Las Vegas when I was riding with my nephew in ...

The Woody's were here long enough to give me hope and get me out of the funk of losing all the toadlet's.  They stayed around for 3 ...

I know all you Frog Blog Readers are on pins and needles waiting to hear the latest on the Fake Rock Camouflage Exercise. Here is the latest...

I'm excited! Last night about 10 I was shutting down the 'ol 'puter when I heard the call of the Woodhouse's Toad. I couldn...

I guess this rock thing isn't that high on my priority list. Just because I have to kneel on my knees, work one handed, sweat streaming ...

On Wednesday before discovering the demise of all the toadlets I reattached the particle board with fake rock and lathe to it's designat...

All the toadlets in the pond are dead! On Monday afternoon I noticed that I didn't see any toadlets, toadpoles, polliwogs... none of th...

On Tuesday I removed the particle board base for the fake rock... or is it faux rock?.... I removed the fake rock from the particle board. I...

My daughter, Janine, asked me about importing turtles to my pond.  A fortuitous question as I had looked into just that possibility this pas...

What could be so hard? I just want to cover the 3/4 inch particle board with some rocks. Rocks that will stay when the particle board is t...

Thursday last, about 10 AM, marked 1 week that Joe has been missing.  I've searched the ponds for submerged bodies... nothing.  I checke...

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