Tadpoles on the move

That's a wonderful service you are doing to save the frogs. I have one quick note of caution; don't house them in a bucket. They need a wide surface area for proper oxygen exchange. They will deplete the oxygen supply in a bucket and suffocate. The tank is good or better yet, the pond.

They get eaten in the pond I think Bathgate, my neighbour took some of ours for her wildlife pond then made it bird proof.....
good job..... the rest had gone the next day.....ducks, fish and heron probably ?

I took them out of the pond to save them from my neighbours' cats. I used a small air pump and air stone and have bought an air pump for the pond as it is only a small pond.
I don't have to worry about herons (hardly even see sparrows here, though I hear blackbirds singing all the time)
Next challenge will be to arrange stones in the pond so that the froglets can climb out when they're ready - I need them to hurry up now as the slugs have found my hostas. ?

If you stay with the bucket make sure they can rest at the surface once they lose their gills though - the start breathing air quite a long time before their legs are fully grown

I think all ours have been eaten - no sign of any at all - I will probably remove some next year too to give them a chance.

A hint for your hostas. Stand each pot in a saucer and keep it topped up with water. This will form a moat and slugs can't swim. Just make sure they can't parachute in from something else nearby.

I know about saucers Andrew. I've only found that method effective if you can completely isolate the foliage from any chance of it touching anything else (not feasible in my little yard unless I only had two or three hostas) and if you can be absolutely sure that there are no slug/snail eggs in the compost when you pot up.

Hostas were a no-no at my last house which was next to a school playing field and I could easily catch over 100 of the critters on a damp evening without hostas to attract them. I'm still finding out the extent of the problem for this garden. I might have to lay some traps for a few weeks until the frogs are able to start work.

It was ages before I realised there must be slug eggs in compost sometimes - could never understand how small ones appeared in overwintering pots that hadn't been outside at all...