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Les grenouilles
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:01 pm
by MKG
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:06 pm
by Milims
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 4:55 pm
by bill1953
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:12 pm
by MKG
Ah, Bill - I sympathise. Being environmentally aware is a costly business. I've been trying to tell the people around here for years that frogs are great for getting rid of slugs - are they grateful? No - are they hell. They just don't like frogs. They don't like slugs even more, but haven't got to the associative phase yet.
I have to admit that sacrificing a wife to your amphibophilia is really going some, though.
Mike
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 5:22 pm
by bill1953
Absolutely! Hardly seen a slug but when I did discover a colony of fairly rare lemon slugs - as slugs go the prettiest slug of all I removed them to a safer site in the garden as the frogs were decimating them.
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:05 pm
by julie_lanteri
somebody's calling me?
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 7:00 pm
by MKG
If you have large, protuberant eyes, bandy green legs, and croak throughout the night, yes.
Mike
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:53 am
by Green Aura
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:57 am
by Millymollymandy
julie_lanteri wrote:somebody's calling me?
I was oddly drawn to this thread, too.
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:16 am
by Mrs Moustoir
A friend of mine spent last weekend rescuing migrating toads which were crossing a road. She couldn't bear to see them being squished so she was filling a bucket with them and putting them in the ditch on the opposite side of the road.
Her neighbours thought she was bonkers.
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:13 am
by bill1953
The 'bonkers' people were the ones who were driving over them
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 4:50 pm
by DebbieP
We've got loads of frog spawn in our pond too! Yay! Spotted one of the parents on the pond floor at one point too :) I love seeing the wildlife in the garden, I think we did have a couple of newts in there too but they're so hard to see, too good at hiding!
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:40 pm
by bill1953
DebbieP wrote:We've got loads of frog spawn in our pond too! Yay! Spotted one of the parents on the pond floor at one point too :) I love seeing the wildlife in the garden, I think we did have a couple of newts in there too but they're so hard to see, too good at hiding!
Best way to see newts is not to see them Debbie! G out in the dark on warmish evenings and listen. When they come up to the surface they make a very recognisable 'popping' sound x
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:46 pm
by MKG
I once had a pet newt. I called him Tiny, 'cos he was my newt.
Mike
PS ... the spawn is now tiny taddies.
Re: Les grenouilles
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:48 am
by bill1953
MKG wrote:I once had a pet newt. I called him Tiny, 'cos he was my newt.
Mike
PS ... the spawn is now tiny taddies.
took me three reads but I go it!