@taiwan_girl said in I heard him:
That is very neat Brenda!! Keep us updated as to how they do.
Will do!
It's difficult for them to get up on the porch in their usual way right now. Normally, they would climb the long flower stalks near the porch, and then hop over to the edge of the porch floor, or they will climb one of the tall birdfeeder poles and jump over to the porch floor. It's early in the season, so the flowers aren't tall enough. It's so cool in the evening, the metal poles are too cold for their toes, so they jump off to the plants again.
The last two nights, I have gone down to the flower bed and picked Emmie up from where she's looking up at me to bring her to the porch. Yes, I am taxi service to frogs here. She doesn't mind, except she wants to ride on the front of my sweatshirt. They love to crawl up my arms.
Emmie got special treatment last night. I want to encourage the frogs to come to the porch, but the number of bugs is still low due to the cool weather, so the bug zapper doesn't attract many bugs for them yet. That's what makes the froggos want to come up to the porch: dinner.
I have some breeder crickets in the dining room that are too large for the house froggos to eat, so I brought a few out for Emmie. She wasn't interested in the first two, becase they hopped away so quickly. The third one made a wrong turn and hoppped toward Emmie. She popped that little cricket in her mouth so fast, and then squeezed it down her gullet. That can take a minute or so for a big bug.
After that, she left the porch, but didn't go far. She decided to sit on the trellis immediately behind my chair, and stayed at about the same height as the porch floor, which is about four feet from the ground. That was a nice perch for digesting her first dinner of the evening.
Hobbits have multiple breakfasts, and froggos have multiple dinners. 🙂
