with spring coming about....i put in a small pond (300 gallons?) heavy black plastic 2-tiered...and i learned that i was not in tip-top shape-i had gotten the back of my pick-up a short bed 73 stepside chevy give you an idea of the size of  and the amount of sand i had to help level the pond base-so i dug sweat dripping in my eyes even with a head band and wrist band..so when i thought i was done after drinking about 300 gallons of water, i saw i have to dig another foot to put the sand in, which was in 5 gallon buckets about 200 feet away, now i know what it is like to be on a chain gang-get the sand in, offer to make a sacrifice to some obscure gods to let me put in the pond base level-so eyeballing it and barley using a level i had handy i put water in the pond and even without a  sacrifice to the gods that pond sunk and leveled out after another 2 hours of feeding sand along the sides of the pond- now that was after spring and first of summer...so a bit late to attract any frogs...as summer paled we realized that frogs were not going to come this year....forward to the present-just starting this week we now hear a male frog crooning away..and this bad boy is loud, can be heard over a sound system and a film...with our backyard, it is hard to figure where he is, our neighborhood is relatively quiet...so if i went to look for him...it would be a case of keystone cops...me wandering aimlessly and forgetting the frog will be quiet on he hears me pounding about....so as he croons and can offer his own pond, bubbling slowly, bugs galore, greenery to hang-out and bid their time for bugs...sprinklers with water to bring more bugs abounding...not sure if quail would bother the frogs..i.e. eat them...there are robin red-breasts who hop thru the yard after a good watering, bug hunting...the sparrows and finches seem more interested in the bird feeders or the sunflowers later in the summer...don't want to get store brought frogs as they are not acclimated to our yard and survival may be minimal...now one of our cats, tinker does cruise the yard and drinks out of the pond, hopefully as much cat food as she eats, will be less inclined to eat a frog, but cats like to play with their prey also, a bridge i am crossing too early...need to set some drip lines a we are doing a boxed planter deal with herbs and vegetables this year...i digress-so the hunt for the frog will continue..or at least see that he has made a home in the pond and secondly will find his true love smiles until later