Copperhead snake.

We've had a visitor in the hothouse this morning.

Watch out Pobblebonks, the Copperhead's main diet is frogs.

I think that's a sign that its time to plant everything out now.

The Pobblebonks.

We're not sleeping much at the moment, the frog noises are just so loud.

The other day Bren sat down at the computer and googled frog noises. We listened to a whole lot of them until we identified the ones we'd been listening to day and night.

They are the Eastern Banjo frogs.

They also have the nickname Pobblebonk because of the 'bonk' noise the males make. When one starts others join in to make a chorus of bonks.

Lately we'd noticed some foamy nests in different parts of the house dam and decided to go and investigate.

We collected some in a jar and discovered that the foam is actually jelly that contains thousands of little frog eggs.

It must be too early for tadpoles as we only saw this one.

But after lifting up some rocks and sticks we finally came across a few little Pobblebonks.

I've heard that frogs are a good indication of how healthy an ecosystem is. If that is true then ours is very healthy indeed, you can't really say the same for my sleeping habits though.