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ten days ago I dug a small pond on my lotty, a friend had offered me some tadpoles from hers so | needed to get it dug pronto. Today I was watching the pond and the taddies swimming when lo and behold a frog surface and then dove again - I was not expecting it. But my pond has obviouly been squatted by a large frog and the tadpoles are still swimming and hiding around the rocks.

That's very cool. I need to get some plants in mine I think. Seems a bit barren at the moment. Just sent mum a text requesting taddies from her pond if she has any.

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That's great news Sam. Keep your eyes open and you'll spot all sorts of wildlife arriving over the next few weeks. I can spend hours just gazing into the water in our garden pond - a whole new world is revealed as your eyes adjust and you figure out what you're looking at in the murky depths!

I can (sort of) beat your record by the way - a couple of years ago I was building a mini pond using an old butler sink dug into the ground. When the hole was dug and the sink dropped into place I walked off to get the hose. By the time I got back a cheeky frog had jumped (or possibly slipped) into the sink - before there was even any water to swim in! Not sure if that qualifies though, as it wasn't strictly a pond yet...

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I had a similar experience: I marked out the pond and spread the liner out to make sure it was big enough. As I unfolded the liner, a water boatman landed with a Plop! on it. Obviously it was flying over, looked down and saw a shiny brown shape and decided it was water.

When I was - very slowly - digging out my pond, I had to keep rescuing a toad from the hole. My own fault - I'd dug this thing, which from a toad's point of view was the size of a major quarry, right outside their back door!
I found the spawn of the world's thickest frog earlier in the year - it was plastered onto a near-vertical stone, at the side of a bridlepath, hundreds of yards from water of any kind! I scraped it off and found a pond. It's surprisingly sticky stuff.

We had loads of frog spawn this year- but it looks like the frogs or tadpoles have eaten them!!