We've had a run of cold nights and I haven't really heard the frogs calling for a week. Tonight there are at least two spotted marsh frogs calling from the dam - it's about 9 degrees at 10pm so a relatively warm night for winter, and it's also dark (no moon). There has been no sound from the spadefoots, and strangely no sounds yet from the pond either. 

Yesterday I took a walk out to the pond and dam. Plenty of insect activity in both, and I saw my first red mite on the pond. The other bugs are still there in large numbers.  In the dam the water is deep - enough to drown all the seedling ryegrass that was in there from earlier rain. The flowering milk thistle is also stressed by the waterlogging. We will have water in the dam for a while yet.