Tough Tadpoles...

Bear here....

I kid you not!  Currently here in Wisconsin it is 11 degrees and snowing. I am feeding goldfish food to the tadpoles in our pond! They are "huge" and still swimming around. Usually they hibernate or turn to frogs before winter, this is the first time we have seen them swimming past September.  I thought you would like to see them...

Here is a big one hanging out by the pond heater. We use the heater to keep the pond from freezing over so any critters hibernating under water don't suffocate and so the birds have a place to drink.

Here comes some of his buddies to enjoy the warmth...

This is me showing I need more work on becoming a good photographer. You can still see three tadpoles above the camera's shadow....

Here is a shot with 6 of them. Can you find them all?

I believe we have at least 20 to 50 or more tadpoles still active. I think they eat the duckweed and algae. If they don"t have enough food they start to eat each other. that's why we have started putting fish food in the pond for them. If anyone knows what would be better for them let us know.

I am practicing my camera skills and will hopefully get shots of them being frogs and leaving the pond in the spring. It"s cool we get to experience new wild things every season here.  Just sayen...

​Type at ya later...