A little green frog likes to sit on the top of our pool liner, right below the overhang. He’s hard to see unless you are swimming. I notice him even without my glasses on because he is vivid green against the dark blue liner. He’s tiny, about 2 inches long.
Green Frog From Pool July 12, 2013
The swimming pool is not a good spot for a frog. The chlorine will kill him and once he gets into the water it would be hard to climb back out. Last summer we fished a couple dead frogs out and I sure don’t want to see any more die like that.
He probably is climbing up the outside to squeeze through a tiny opening and perch on top the liner because he is always in one of the same spots, on either end of the oval.
I pluck him off the top of the liner and carefully carry him to the ladder, up and out then down the steps and out to the garden. So far he’s come back (or his identical twins) 4 times this last week. Yesterday I brought him upstairs so Dave could get a photo to show how him off. (I can’t photograph him on the liner top because he is almost hidden by the overhang.)
Green Frog In My Hand
Last summer we were late getting the pool open and tadpoles hatched in the water on top of the cover. Dave rescued them and we put them in a wading pool, bought food and an aerator and finally late September the last ones metamorphed into frogs and hopped away.
Tiny Baby Frog on Edge of Tadpole Pool September 24, 2015
I wonder whether any of the frog(s) this summer that want to live in our pool were tadpoles last summer?
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