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Index of Subjects On 12/1/2010 2:02 PM, V Redden wrote: > Today my pond is frozen over except for a thin skim around the edges and > some small weak or open spots. > I found one frog frozen into the surface ice. I broke the ice away and > he sunk to the bottom dead or frozen. Where I broke the ice another > spotted frog/toad came to the surface and immediately went back down. > Another large frog (bull frog size - solid dark green) was laboriously > making his way across the ice to somewhere. He was looking very tired > and rested much more than he slid/hopped. Kind of a sad sight. * water-hibernating frogs shut down large portions of their nervous system in the winter, which largely restricts their activity to the kind of simple swimming that you saw. fred schueler. -- Take me out onto Cooper Road In the first week of December As the cold rain falls on the last to go To some hole that stays unfrozen. Come with me onto Middle Creek As the channel has just frozen and the January sunshine gleams over swimmers on the bottom. Take me out onto Middle Creek When the channel has refrozen, And the February sunshine gleams Over sleepers on the bottom.
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