Accent on Natural Landscaping

Donna VanBuecken

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Resources
  • Organizations & Blogs
  • Archives
  • Contact

Tadpoles

June 12, 2017


People always tease me about how late I open my pool, but I’ve got a good reason for being slow — tadpoles. Yep, every spring Mom and Pop American Toad serenade our warm evenings and then a few days later we see these little black dots moving around in the water captured by the pool cover. Some years we hear their serenade as often as five times, other times just once or twice. But always they are sounds to which we look forward. Without the toads, our backyard would be so much more of a mosquito-haven.

AND ANOTHER GREEN FROG

Visiting us again this year is a Green Frog you see nestled amongst the floating Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides Bartr.ex Marsh) tree seed.

And this year we again have a Green Frog that continues to scare us half to death when we walk out to check on the tadpoles. Hopefully he’ll move on before I open my pool.

See also Frogs in my Pool.

   Send article as PDF   

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Signup button.

Recent Posts

  • WOFVAC 2023 Native Plant, Tree and Shrub Sale
  • OVER-THE-COUNTER NATIVE PLANT SALE MAY 21
  • WOFVA’s NATIVE PLANT SALE MAY 21
  • Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA)
  • Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame 2022 Inductees

Category Archives

  • Biodiversity
    • Monarchs
    • Pollinators
  • Birds
  • Climate Change
  • Events
  • Fire
  • Funding
  • Garden and Landscape Design
  • Heroes
  • Homestead
    • Recipe
  • Invasive Plants
  • Native plant garden design
  • Native Plants
  • Natural Landscaping
  • Prairie
  • Public Comment Opportunity
  • Railroad
  • The Sky
  • Wellbeing
  • Wetlands
  • Wildflowers
    • Trees & Shrubs
  • Wildlife
    • Wolves
  • Wisconsin
  • Women
  • Woodlands

Copyright 2005-2018
Donna VanBuecken