Your Backyard is Their Oyster

Your frogs will inhabit your whole yard. They are motion hunters and will roam the yard, and sometimes the neighbourhood, gobbling anything that moves. If it don’t move they’re not interested.

Because of this voracious appetite they grow quite quickly. I have a couple of frogs that emerged from the water in January or February as small as a five cent coin. Now in April they are unrecognisable as those browny grey little blobs. They are as big as my nine year old sons hand and are splendid green and gold.

The evidence that they inhabit my whole yard is their droppings, scat, poo if you will. I find it every where and quite delightedly so, as this is like a little calling card. My frog woz ‘ere! I find it on the side of the pool, on the hand rails of the pool, on the lips of my pot plants, on leaves in my passion fruit vine, and even on the arms of the plastic chairs around my outdoor table.

A frog poo is discernible by its shape and texture. It is cylindrical in shape with points on both ends. One points up and the other points down! Its texture is a bit uneven as you can see the shape of what the frog has eaten.

I became quite curious about what my frogs were finding to eat in my backyard and one day got up the courage to pull apart a poo and see what I could see. I found a dropping that I knew was a few days old. It had been baking in the sun on the side of my pool, so I knew it would be dessicated and I just carefully broke it appart. It was fascinating. I could see compound eyes, insect legs, wings. Wow! How abundant the wildlife must be out there that we just never see!

The next time I found a likely looking frog poo I picked it up to examine it and it crumbled in my hand. It was 90% sand with only a single set of compound eyes at the very end like some evolved boondie with eyes. I was very puzzled about the eating habits of this frog! Maybe his aim was just a bit off that day.

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