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Very south - Mobile, Alabama. The pond isn’t big, maybe a 1/2 acre. The bass and bream are doing well in it and we have seen a water snake already this spring but I just haven’t noticed frogs. I don’t know if they aren’t there or if I just haven’t paid attention. Tonight wouldn’t be a good test either because it’s supposed to get really cold.

We're shivering at lake of the Ozarks in mid-Missouri today. All the oaks have wilted leaves and the plants we set out a week ago are goners. In December and again in January we had big ice storms. The second blast knocked out power for several days...now this cold snap.
The frog disappearance story has been featured in the WSJ and a dozen Midwest newspapers. At first, pesticide or herbicide was suspected. Even where there is no spraying, the frogs are gone. I noticed on my mom's pond in Iowa that there were almost no frogs last summer when they were once abundant. 20 years ago, I could walk down and see hundreds of just post-tadpole frogs leave on a rainy night and move down the pasture to another pond on the neighbor's place. No one has proof that any chemical is responsible, tho. It might be a natural reduction in numbers of one or two species since the tree frogs don't seem to be short...