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My wife's little pond (about 4' square) has been home this year to gray tree frogs and green frogs and many tadpoles early on, but there are a couple of tadples in there now. Why?

it depends where you are. im in northern va and the cold followed by the heat could re-trigger them to mate. they also just may be breeding as much as possible to get the most babies possible. these will obviosly not make it most likely, but if the heat keeps on those frogs still breeding are increasing the frequency their genes are passed on, and be the most successful(survuval of the fittest in a way), dont worry. natur ehas a reason for almost everything.

I'm in Md, about 15 miles south of PA. I hadn't really seen much in eggs, and the green frogs have grown to a good size, so maybe it's kind of a last shot for them.

Green frogs, Rana clamitans, typically overwinter as tadpoles and metamorphose a year after being laid. If they are large tadpoles (on the order of the size of your thumb) they are probably greens. The gray treefrogs are much smaller and should have changed a lot time ago.
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I do have some grey's in the process of morphing now; some have changed and been released, and some only have back legs. My narrowmouth toadpoles (my son's name for them) don't have any legs yet. Please tell me they don't overwinter as tadpoles.....