Rebuilding our fire-damaged frog pond was an ideal opportunity for a pond-life audit

A new frog for our home list, and a relatively newly-evolved species … a mere 10,000 years plus!

A small Red-bellied Black Snake has been frequenting our frog pond in recent days - preventing some of the tadpoles from becoming frogs

Damselflies and dragonflies undergo extensive changes during their final moult, adapting to the shift from swimming to flight.

A new visitor to the pond in company with a familiar one

We get to witness a Red-bellied Black Snake feasting on amphibians again

We get to see some of the earliest steps in the formation of perhaps the most complex structure in the Universe - the vertebrate brain.

Tracing frog development back to earlier stages - the young embryo.

Austrolestes leda (Wandering Ringtail) damselflies - a summer breeding frenzy

Red-bellied Black Snakes are surprisingly good swimmers!

We get to see how frogs make more frogs.