North Carolina Bull Frogs

Just an up date on the fifteen North Carolina tad poles that I bought last spring and put in my pond. Out of the 15 tad poles I have five bull frogs about as long as my thumb, and one tad pole still in the pond with legs. None of these bull frogs have ventured outside of the perimeter of my small pond. I can't help but to wonder if they are going to come back next spring.

The middle of this last week we had some record high temps here in the Northwest. I went out to check the pond filter and watch the fish, and I noticed that three of my bull frogs were hanging out at the edge of my pond.

Then I removed the cover (fake rock), of the filter reservor, and there was a bull frog tad poll in the skimmer. It still has legs and part of the tail. Must be a slow developer. So I put it in one of my indoor holding tanks in the house. Hopefully it will continue to to grow, and eventually I will put it into a terrarium until spring.

We are blessed to be overrun with bullfrogs, if you build it, they will come.

I can't explain why, but that's not so here in Tacoma where I live.I have to go catch them and bring them home to my pond.

bullfrog wrote:We are blessed to be overrun with bullfrogs, if you build it, they will come.

Thats what happened to us too...............Pond went in and the frogs moved in about a week later.
For the first year we had one BIG resident bullfrog, He even tried to catch and eat birds if they got too close to his rock.
Suddenly he vanished, and about 2 weeks later we started to see other bullfrogs move in and now we have over a dozen residents in our pond, none of which are even close to the size of the original frog

I haven't been there in the evening yet, but Rex said the frogs sing loud all night, "Then Big Daddy starts chiming in." Right across from the river there has to be millions of them. We have a wooded lot on one side with welded wire fence, so once my pond goes in they will move in. They get huge here, about the size of a man's shoe.

After all of this wacky weather. today, the outside temp was 58 degrees F. I happened to be standing next to my pond when I noticed a frog dashing for cover between two potted plants on the shelf in the pond. The pond temp just happened to be 52 degreesF. It must be warm enough for them to come out & play. Iwould have thought that the frogs wouldn't be out until spring.

JW, I'm with you on that. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop when it comes to this wacky weather here in the Northwest.

I went out into the back yard with a flashlight last night to check my ponds inhabitants, and I spotted three of the North Carolina bull frogs dodling around in the pond at one edge. I am assuming that they may just be around next spring. The Cascadia frogs that I brought in two summers ago never did show up last summer. I'm looking forward to seeing these bull frogs hang'en around for awhile.

I hope so. I love the sound of nature.

Good for you Rich
Frogs around here are still deep in their hibernation as there is still a couple inches of ice on our pond.