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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147


    Frog spawn appeared in our little pond this morning  :)

    hello @Jellyfire :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Awww! How lovely,   congrats to Dove,  are yours always this late? Hopefully by being this late they won’t get frosted. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s only the second year we’ve had any in our little pond, although NDN gets lots ... I’m pretty sure last year ours was mid March, and Jellyfire and I aren’t too far apart so our frogs are probably right for this bit of the world. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Hi Dove! Congratualtions on your new arrival! Almost finished my winter hiberanation (I have zero desire to garden between november and March!)
    Think march is about normal round these parts Lyn as Dove said, you can log sightings here https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/projects/pondnet/spawnsurvey2019/ and they have a nice little map which they update every week or so. There was none at all on it for East Anglia for february. Had another clump added overnight, so hopeful we will have a few more yet
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    Our poor solitary frog is still waiting for a mate - I real am quite upset that we have lost all but one of our frogs over the past 3 or 4 years.
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Lots of spawn in wheel ruts beside our track at the start of February! Nothing in the newly dug "pond" until a month or so later. The wheel ruts are swarming with tadpoles at the moment, which is a shame as they'll probably dry out in the next two or three weeks. I transferred a bucket load from the ruts to the "pond" today but couldn't get them all.
  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    Got a second lot of spawn today, laid on top of the first (1st March)!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We’ve got a couple more small clumps today  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    First lot of spawn are hatching out today! (from 1st March)
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    How wonderful your frogspawn is hatching out - you are so lucky.  We still have just the one old frog waiting for a mate, I think it will be waiting in vain - so sad. Enjoy the new life in your pond Flinster.
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