Frogs in a pond, originally uploaded by malyousif.
There is this “secret” garden centre in the industrial area of Sitra that my friend Rami led me to, and now I visit once in a while because they have undervalued plants, a pond with frogs, nice cacti if you care to spend the time to choose and very expensive seeds of which I have bought and planted a few.
I took my daughter Amna to it yesterday, and Amna being Amna, she fell in love with the frogs. They’re not for sale. She was heartbroken, so I convinced the guy to at least scoop up some tadpoles for her and put them in water in a plastic bag, which he did with thanks from both of us.
We arrived home and as we have a small pond, Amna emptied the contents of the bag – 5 tadpoles in various stages of growth – into it.
Now I wait to hear frogs in my garden. I think it will add a nice dimension!
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What a beautiful shot, Mahmood!
There are ponds here with so many native frogs that when they begin to mate, it can be so loud as to be almost deafening.
Your daughter and I both have the same love of frogs. I’m nuts about them as well so well done.
Lovely shot Mahmood and I hope we have some more pictures again when yours mature a little. 😀
Nice shot! You will have a lot of fun with the frogs!
But maybe your neighbor will try to sue you because of the noise.
We once had a toad living with us in the garden.
She even hibernated by getting frozen in the water.
Our cats were scared of her, but our dog tried to sniff and she spit out something which he didn’t enjoy at all. :biggrin:
umm, fried frog-legs, delicious
:devil:
Didn’t realize they allowed frogs in Bahrain…
Hope for your sake they aren’t too noisy!
Ah, you obviously didn’t hear of Essa Faraj?
I remember in the mid 1980’s there were wild frogs everywhere. The two ponds and the spring on Nabi saleh were great places for collecting tadpoles as well as the streams over near the new rugby club.
In Budaiya there was also a stream flowing into the sea where you could get tadpoles and fish for the garden ponds.
Also unbelieveably there were terrapins, not the USA ones with the red head markings but Bahraini ones. We found one in the street once and put it into our pond. It wasn’t much bigger than a beer mat when we found it and now it is the size of a small dustbin lid and lives in our pond feeding on bahraini fish.
Now there’s a tale. Did you know that there are instant fish in Bahrain too. Again in the mid 1980’s all you had to do was dig your pond in the garden fill it with local water and after a month there would be fish living in it Fish falling from the sky? Ok they were small but they they bred very well and always provided a good supply of food for the birds with the long beaks.
I saw one of these birds living on the roundabout at Isa town gate and it was eating a small mouse.
It is a shame that all these places are going now and are drying up and being built on and the roundabouts are going.
Things ain’t what they used to be.
Good luck with that. The frogs by my apartment here in Cairo are deafening, but the ones near our house in Connecticut are lovely (of course they’re not as close.)
Nostalga you break my heart. This is exactly what Essa Faraj and others are trying to do, at least keep the little that we have now. It is an uphill battle.
We’ve just come back from Isa Town market, Arif and I, and we bought a pimped out cage for Filbert, some chick-parrot food, a terrapin and a couple of big goldfish too! The pond is getting a bit crowded (which is the plan so we can dig a bigger one!)
Arif called his terrapin (Fernando) Sucre and I have no idea what Hanan and Frances want to call their fish!
Frogs used to be plentiful in Bahrain. When we came first here in 1971, my son filled a shoebox with small frogs in one of the streams in Yateem garden. Took them with him in the plane when we went on vacation. Of course the box tipped over and the plane was full of frogs, lots of fun and good old days in flying.