I didn’t know that frogs could dig, did you?
When I was walking up the garden I noticed a hole, an thought the earth had settled from all the raking. So, I went to fill the hole in – and it moved!
A frog had buried himself a few inches down in the loose earth, presumably to get cool out of the sun! He wasn’t impressed when I coaxed him out for this photograph, you can tell by his frown, but it was for his own good – he’d only have been raked to death otherwise.
It kind of explains a lot – over the course of digging the garden I have seen dozens of frogs, one sadly impaled on my fork. But they just seemed to appear – you’d turn over a clod of earth and lo’ there would be a frog. I said then that they must have been dug in, but it seemed implausible due to our soil being wet heavy clay, but perhaps I was right?
