Backyard Water Feature: Fighting Frogs

I spent a delightful Father’s Day at Jane’s spending most of the day outside on the patio, enjoying a BBQ with our boys and watching an array of avian activity in the backyard. However, it was the action at the pond that was most intriguing. It was not just the robins, catbirds and blue jays coming in to get a drink from the stream on this hot day, or the goldfish perusing the pickerel rush on the perimeter, but…….

…..a territorial dispute between two (of the eighteen) Green Frogs that inhabit this small wildlife haven. Standing up they locked arms, wrestling on hind legs until the weakest one was pinned to the shallow water.