Lots of frogs and salamanders. Pond is under the drip line of two 80 foot white oaks. In the fall I’m going to cover with brush to help keep acorns out: They dye the water brown with tannins.
That being said, this past winter, very early January, I drained the pond to clean out the acorns and the refilled it (well water) and within two weeks spotted salamanders had started laying eggs!
Lovely! We have a pond that’s slowly but surely being reclaimed by nature. I don’t plan on stopping mother nature, but recently the water has become mud? I guess we’ll have to dig it out and refill it again with rainwater.