Frog Watch.

Our family has been on a frog watch.

My son, D.P., and a couple of his friends have adopted tadpoles as an “experiment”. They found literally hundreds of the little swimmers in a neighbor’s flower pot which was apparently turned into a nesting ground for a frog after all of the rain we have been having.

D.P. carefully built a habitat of local soil, plants and a few sticks inside a yellow beach bucket. I objected his request to keep them in his bedroom “so they can be more comfortable” so he placed them on the porch where they could also benefit from the sun and rain.

We watched them carefully but after 3 weeks in the same bucket, the water became so murky that we could no longer observe them. D.P. decided to clean the water.

He carefully put them in a temporary habitat (a frisbee) while he scrubbed out the old one. Here are some of the little guys.

After rebuilding the old habitat, he filled it with cold water from the refrigerator.
Sadly, we learned that tadpoles can't thrive in fresh, cold water.

A few did survive. So far. I am surprised that it was the smaller ones.