{"id":6529,"date":"2025-09-27T16:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:27:45","slug":"frog-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=6529","title":{"rendered":"Frog Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly 40 years ago when I built my house, I installed a 1300 gallon cistern next to it. All along, it has fulfilled many yard or garden needs. Several weeks ago I opened the hatch and noticed a tree frog swimming inside. No harm done there. It was likely eating mosquitoes anyway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Checking a few weeks later, I began to see the result. There were hundreds, maybe over a thousand tadpoles swarming about.<\/p>\n

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Within 3 weeks some were getting legs, then loosing their tails.<\/p>\n

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I put a few cedar shingles on the water to provide more habitat.<\/p>\n

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Then I placed a wood ramp leading them to the open hatch.<\/p>\n

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Some began climbing the inside walls of the tank..<\/p>\n

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They averaged only about a centimeter in length.<\/p>\n

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Now tiny hoppers are emerging from the cistern, with multitudes yet to go.<\/p>\n

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So far, they look like they’ll be happy in their new home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly 40 years ago when I built my house, I installed a 1300 gallon cistern next to it. All along, it has fulfilled many yard or garden needs. Several weeks ago I opened the hatch and noticed a tree frog swimming inside. No harm done there. It was likely eating mosquitoes anyway.\u00a0 Checking a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-outer-banks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6548,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}