One crazed afternoon, I rented a backhoe and dug out a 10 X 25 foot pond in our backyard. I put in a few dozen 7 @ $1.00 goldfish, and irises and lilies I dug up at the golf course where I work part time.
The native Oregon tree frogs immediately utilized the pond for breeding.
Herons preyed on the goldfish.
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Then the bullfrogs came.
After the bullfrogs invaded�, the native tree frogs almost vanished from the Big Pond. One would still croak all year round from the waterfall.
This year I saw a Tree frog egg sac in the Big Pond. They’re trying to re-colonize it.
But I can see more bullfrogs swirling the Big Pond’s water. I move the egg sac to safety in the Frog Mitigation Area’s newest abode, Upper Pear Pond. The egg sacs are slippery, like mercury. They could escape a raccoon’s grasp.
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