Thursday 17 December 2015

Where are the Frogs ?

During the course of conversation,  Subbu mentioned he has not seen any Frogs yet.  The conversation was about health of the fish in the Pond.  On the advise of the fisheries, he had thrown some thorny bushes into the pond to protect the fish.

The idea is when a predator like stork or snake attacks, the fish will hide under the thorny bush floating in the water.  Good and effective idea indeed.

Well Fish is there,  Crab is there, Rabbit,  Snake, Peacock, birds all are present. But Frogs are missing.  Strangely there used to be hundreds of frogs in last year rain. But this time, not a single frog is found. The food chain looks broken for what reason - don't know.

Today I checked again with him to find that small frogs are present. Not big ones.  How come ?

Thorny bush thrown into water intentionally to protect the fish

Past two days rain is playing spoil sport.  We need to wait for couple of days more.  Subbu will be travelling to nursary tomorrow to purchase few more plants.


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