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Leah Sattler
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July 23, 2008, 05:50:10 AM

My yard is loaded with toads. I love it ! I would like to have more frogs though and hope to create an inviting spot closer to my home with my mini retention pond. I especially like toads and frogs and they are great to have around for bug eating as well as being great animals to alert you to enviromental problems because they are paricularly sensitive to pollution and pesticides. A drop in the number of amphibians can give early clues to an enviromental contamination problem. For this reason many amphibian populations are on the decline. Help give our froggish freinds a safe home!
http://www.toadilytoads.com/gardentoads.html


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Put a bit of sunshine in each day;
Others need its cheer and so do you-
Need it most when outer sky's dull gray
Leaves the sunshine-making yours to do.
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Charley Hoke
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July 23, 2008, 03:36:41 PM

Very nice thread Leah, and a nice link too. Amphibians are kind of like the canary in the mine. However many people do not realize this.

Toads are a great addition to the garden as they do eat a lot of bugs, bad and beneficial. But they eat enough bad bugs that we do what we can to encourage them to stay. They do like some kind of shelter be it the cute ones in the link you provided or under a large leaf or plant.

One thing we do is take a terracotta flower pot and turn it upside down, place a small stone on one side to raise it a bit, and/or dig out a little dirt so they can crawl under it. They seem to like these fine as a shelter.

We get our drinking water from a fresh water spring. In our reservoir I am delighted when I find a salamander. Salamanders require very clean water to survive. The old timers around here say "If it's fit enough for a salamander, it's fit enough for us."


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Leah Sattler
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July 30, 2008, 06:03:36 AM

these guys are the best. I love to hear them sing at night.


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Put a bit of sunshine in each day;
Others need its cheer and so do you-
Need it most when outer sky's dull gray
Leaves the sunshine-making yours to do.
-"scatter sunshine" Jaunita Stafford

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