The temperature is hovering, actually bouncing, between good and bad. We still have two frogs regularly showing up at the ponds waiting to catch insects. One is used to our presence and ignores us unless we have a bug to offer.

The tadpoles are so far handling the lower temperatures. There's no telling whether the weather will hold out long enough for them. I do know that a few years ago we had one type of large tadpole that made it through a winter, but we had a plastic cover on the ponds and that provided significant warmth to them.

Already, we're seeing a slight change in the bird population as different types of birds begin to show up or depart the area. Nothing major yet, but the signs are already becoming noticeable. We had so much rain over the past few days that the birds aren't picky about the seeds in the feeders being wet. They're just glad to find something still edible that hasn't been eaten. Of course, I've been putting seeds in some spots where it would keep dry but those were eaten first leaving only the seed that got wet. I'll probably clean out those feeders tomorrow and put in more dry seed.