Jim's Frog Blog

Not all birds like all bird seed.  Ya just can't make all the birds happy all the time.  What the picky eaters do is shovel aside the ...

When I was knee high to a grasshopper my dad used to say, "March winds and April showers."  Here it is 50 to 60 years later and it...

Spring is my favorite time of year. It's early for it to be spring but it's got to happen sometime.  The calendar still shows it t...

We're not talking about some French guy here, we're referring to the amphibian kinda creature that hops and stays wet... versus the ...

Y'all are probably tired of hearing about my spitter's and the ups and downs of having spitter's as pets.  I feel for you and do...

After receiving the "second opinion" noted in the previous post we thought long and hard about what our next step should be in thi...

This is the email response I got from Hector's creators .  I guess it is good that it was quick and painless... for Hector that is... ...

Like the little egg head named Humpty Dumpty, Hector also is in need of being put back together.  I'm thinking it will take more than al...

I suppose a rational person would just shut down the pond during the winter versus go through all the trials and tribulations necessary to k...

I had not seen a gourd trellis until late spring, 2010.  Yep, just last year.  How could I live so long on God's green earth and not see...

One picture | Thousand words. (You can click the picture to see it full size) A non-conformist Whoohoo to ya.

I could only see it with the dark tree in the background.  It's kind of spooky in that the poor whowho birdie that crashed into my win...

Just 7 days ago the Sharp-shinned Hawk was making backyard history and today we relive the epic Hitchcock movie " The Birds ." I...

Today was the third straight day I've seen the Sharp-shinned Hawk in the backyard.  Today was a bit different ~ here is the story. It...

Frogs have a tough life. They are challenged in the brain department. They get bad press about warts (it isn't true). They are picked on...

I stood by the window looking at the backyard.  It looks cold... according to my thermometer it was cold. There was ice on the pond.  My m...

About 10 years ago, when living on the Texas coast, we joined our neighbors for the traditional thanksgiving turkey.  It was a block party t...

One or both of my blog fans may have noticed that I’ve been away from the grind of writing about frogs, toads, birds and what other things m...

In early September I wrote, in this very same blog, about our pampas grass.  It was flowering then and would soon go to seed (click here to ...

On the news this morning the weather man was warning about the first FROST of the season.  It's predicted to happen this weekend on both...

It was just about a year ago this month that we were talking with the folks at one of the orchards that sells their bounty to us city slicke...