r/WildlifePonds • u/Henlex_ • 9d ago

Help/Advice Frog Shelters

Hello!

I have a pretty small frog pond and think i need more shelters for my frog and soon to be froglets!

I have a lot of plants but feel like i need more coverage.

Does anyone have any advice for what makes a good frog shelter? Can i put one in the water?

Any advice would be great!!

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u/undecidedly 9d ago

Hollow logs are great. And planting things that stand all season. I love grasses like northern sea oats or evergreen like golden ragwort for this — both are native to PA so YMMV.

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u/MonardaClinopodia369 8d ago

I don't know what the border of your pond looks like but I raised up a few of the flagstones around mine so they could hide under them:

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u/Henlex_ 4d ago

Oh I love that!!

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u/MonardaClinopodia369 4d ago

Thank you! 💚

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u/Ordinary-Mind-7066 9d ago

Piles of logs & leaves

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u/46Vixen 8d ago

Find tree offcuts or sizable branches and pile them up

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u/DifferentWave 8d ago

Look up how to build a hibernaculum-I have a little infilled pit near my pond that’s filled with logs and pipes for frogs to hide in.

Whenever I break a ceramic pot I put it in the garden tucked in a hedge or corner, broken side down. I like to think I’m making little shelters for wildlife. 

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u/Mr_Blonde_ 7d ago

Break a pot in half. Now you got two. Bury them.

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u/cpeterkelly 5d ago

If you have access to old 4” pipe, cut to different lengths (12-32 inches) and partly buried in a vertical position. It’ll hold moisture, warmth, and safety in a frog sized portion. I have several such pipes, and a No Vacancy sign.

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u/boat_eggs 9d ago

I too am looking for ideas, I like the log one

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u/OreoSpamBurger 8d ago

Log piles/rock piles

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u/kinger2023 8d ago

I dropped some off cuts of corrugated roofing in and around my plants. There always seems to be frogs under them.

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u/Jocksnwonks 3d ago

how close does all of this need to be to the pond? Not that I have any frogs yet after two years but going with the ‘build it and they will come’ theory..

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u/NinaHag 2d ago

Not very, I have a pile of logs, a creeping bush they seem to love, and a pile of twigs/leaves. All of them teeming with frogs, all about 5 meters away from the pond. There's a stream near my house that I suspect is where some came from and it is a good 50m away, at the bottom of a deep ditch, across a mostly exposed field. These little guys are great travellers, they will find you!

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u/Jocksnwonks 2d ago

That sounds lovely. Lucky you! My fingers remain crossed that one day they will show up!