Sunday, September 11, 2005
The frogs are celebrating
The small creek that runs through our place almost burst its banks yesterday. Not that we’d had that much rain, but about 50 millimetres had fallen upstream overnight. We watched as the water slowly rose even though the day was all sunshine.
A small pond on the property that’s fed by a channel off the creek has water in it for the first time in more than five years. And the frogs are celebrating. Their joyous chorus hasn’t stopped since water flowed started flowing into the pond yesterday afternoon.
I’m not sure where the frogs hide most of the time. In the summer if it rained and it was warm, frogs would be all over the road late at night chasing the abundant insect life such conditions seemed to foster. We’d also occasionally dig one out of the garden, buried far enough down to be in moist clay soil.
But now they have a decent water source they are unable to hide their exuberance. I guess after 10 years of drought or dry conditions, a bit of rain is enough to make any frog happy. D
// posted by The Dowies @ 11:44 am 
