Batgung - tadpoles

Tadpole stream after heavy rain

batgungAdmin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:54:30 +0000

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Tadpole stream in normal weather

batgungAdmin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:53:12 +0000

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Baby frogs

mrb — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:32:55 +0000

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Baby frogs

mrb — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:32:43 +0000

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Toadspawn

batgungAdmin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:38:51 +0000

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Wong Nai Chung Reservoir Boating Park

mrb — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:18:45 +0000

This disused reservoir has been converted into a small boating pond. You can rent small paddle boats to potter around on the water. It costs HK$120 to rent a four-seater for an hour on the weekend or public holidays. That was about the right length of time for us and our 2- and 4-year old daughters. It's cheaper on weekdays - the park is open daily, 9am to 6pm.

There are lots of turtles and freshwater fish in the water, so bring along some bread to feed them. In late March we also saw toadspawn and tadpoles.

The Citybus site has more info and details of buses that will take you there.

Tadpoles in Hong Kong?

mrb — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:26:20 +0000

Does anyone know where to find tadpoles in Hong Kong? Or even frogspawn / toadspawn?

At home when I was growing up we had a little pond in the garden. Each spring we'd go out to find tadpoles, bring them back and watch them grow into frogs. (Ok, some years the eggs all went gray and died, but most years there were little hopping frogs to see by late spring).

We had a parent-teacher meeting at our daughter's kindergarten this morning, and it seems tadpoles aren't high on their list of priorities. So I'd be interested to get some here in our flat for our girls to see. We'll have to work out some way to get the resulting little frogs from the 20th floor safely to somewhere more frog-friendly, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Any ideas?

MrB