I wondered where all my tadpoles had gone. Spotted a couple of little juvenile frogs today hiding under a piece of bark in my back yard. Below how it began life feeding on algae in the pond into the carnivorous creature above. It is one way to keep the slugs down. Nature is trully a wonderful thing!
July 2019, rear garden, South Staffordshire, England. © Pete Hillman.
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Awesome! I used to have tadpoles in my pond at home! Unfortunately, they disappeared several years ago due to predators. But they are really fun to watch when you have them! Nice Pictures!
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Thank you Matt. They are indeed fun to watch 🙂
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Fascinating…love that adorable tadpole!!
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Thank you Indira 🙂
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Such a cute little frog ans nicely captured.
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Thank you 🙂
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Tadpoles are such funny creatures — and the transformation into your tiny frogs is wonderful.
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Wonderful indeed 🙂
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Nature never fails to surprise and amaze!
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Beautiful Pete! Love the details!
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Thank you Dwight. He is no bigger than your thumb nail, yet there is so much there 🙂
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Yes… amazing!
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They are wonderful little critters. Actually some of the Bull Frogs are not so little.
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A fascinating journey but I do prefer the little juveniles. Nice photos Pete!
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Thank you Belinda 🙂
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The transformation is a miracle and your little froggy friend’s a prince!
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🙂
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As a kid, there was nothing more exciting than catching polliwogs in a cup and studying them. Sometimes they had the beginnings of their legs which seemed so amazing to us. Nice stuff, Pete.
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It is amazing stuff Steve. Thank you.
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Ahhhhh frogs! The sign of a healthy garden 🙂
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🙂
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It seems such a miracle that a miniscule, newly-formed frog or toad can survive in what must be, to them, a very strange terrestrial world. Great photos!
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It is a miracle to me also, especially when I learned that as the tadpoles develop that turn carnivorous and may even eat each other to survive! Thank you Adele. It has been quite an exciting experience seeing how they have developed, and I did ever wonder whether I would see any grown frogs or not.
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The photo of the tadpole is amazing! Never saw it like that. The “prince”, that means the frog, is very nice. Wonderful colours!
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I feel lucky to have got the photos as I did for they were hidden under the pond weed most of the time. Thank you Almuth 🙂
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What a pleasant surprise 🙂
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Indeed 🙂 🙂
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What a beautiful frog, just like a little jewel. I still find these types of metamorphosis amazing.
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They are quite beautiful when you can get to study them long enough. Me too!
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Oh my gosh, how cute is that little frog!! 💙
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They are qute cutes at that stage. I came across a young toad the other day in the garden, and they look cute, too 🙂
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