Maybe it's just me but these two look guilty of something...

[Hound Heaven]

 

[BKHpondcritters]

Definitely some amphibian shenanigans being plotted......

 

[Hound Heaven]

Eggzactly what I suspected

 

[Guestie]

It took a bit for me to see them ... I should have known it would have been frogs up to no-good, though.

 

[Elpidia]

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I had a huge toad in my pond once. I was loved it until I found out they eat baby fish. Mine are Koi, not happy about that news, lol. Every winter, it would hide away and return in the Spring. It disappears suddenly and never came back.

 

[j.w]

and welcome @Elpidia

 

[Hound Heaven]

I had a huge toad in my pond once. I was loved it until I found out they eat baby fish. Mine are Koi, not happy about that news, lol. Every winter, it would hide away and return in the Spring. It disappears suddenly and never came back.

I wouldn't want to have expensive koi eaten either. I have a hunch that frogs may have eaten some of my goldfish, but not many. Plus the frogs here have to watch their own backs as I have a resident pair of owls that like to hunt in the pond too

 

[Elpidia]

I love the tranquility I feel watching the Koi and the sound of the water. It brings me joy.

 

[Elpidia]

I wouldn't want to have expensive koi eaten either. I have a hunch that frogs may have eaten some of my goldfish, but not many. Plus the frogs here have to watch their own backs as I have a resident pair of owls that like to hunt in the pond too

HAHA I love owls, another one of my favorite animals! Koi are very expensive, but since I had over 100 at the time and many since the Koi were breading, I didn't mind as much if the toad ate some of the little ones, the bigger fish were too big to be eaten, although I witness the same toad eat a bird once! Did you know that toads are birds?! I did not.

 

[Hound Heaven]

I love the tranquility I feel watching the Koi and the sound of the water. It brings me joy.
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I agree with you entirely about the sound. Yours looks like a lovely, large pond with a lot of goldfishes and a monstrous lily!

 

[Hound Heaven]

I agree with you entirely about the sound. Yours looks like a lovely, large pond with a lot of goldfishes and a monstrous lily!

HAHA I love owls, another one of my favorite animals! Koi are very expensive, but since I had over 100 at the time and many since the Koi were breading, I didn't mind as much if the toad ate some of the little ones, the bigger fish were too big to be eaten, although I witness the same toad eat a bird once! Did you know that toads are birds?! I did not.

I have heard of frogs eating birds but have never seen it. Not worried about them eating an owl though

 

[JMJ]

I wouldn't want to have expensive koi eaten either. I have a hunch that frogs may have eaten some of my goldfish, but not many. Plus the frogs here have to watch their own backs as I have a resident pair of owls that like to hunt in the pond too

Barred owls are so cool to watch feed! I used to have one that hung around my archery stand that I used to watch catch and eat crawfish. Surprised the heck out of me the first time I witnessed it. We have both barred and great horned owls patrolling our neighborhood, I hope that aids in keeping pond predators away.

I had a huge toad in my pond once. I was loved it until I found out they eat baby fish. Mine are Koi, not happy about that news, lol. Every winter, it would hide away and return in the Spring. It disappears suddenly and never came back.View attachment 162705

This pic is so awesome! Makes me anxious for my pair of bronze/green frogs to come back.

 

[Hound Heaven]

Being as GHO's are the arch nemesis of Barred owls, I bet you don't see too many. That must have been something watching them eat crawfish

 

[JMJ]

Being as GHO's are the arch nemesis of Barred owls, I bet you don't see too many. That must have been something watching them eat crawfish

The GHO’s are a lot fewer and further between. The one I saw in in the neighborhood had dropped on a grey squirrel while I was at a stop sign one evening. It very much was, barred’s are by far our most common owl that I see.

 

[Guestie]

I had a huge toad in my pond once. I was loved it until I found out they eat baby fish. Mine are Koi, not happy about that news, lol. Every winter, it would hide away and return in the Spring. It disappears suddenly and never came back.View attachment 162705

Gorgeous pond ...