Hi Mrs G, Couldn't believe my eyes - over 60!! Never had so many frogs...can't wait till the toads arrive to spawn, hoping they will be in spectacular numbers too
Two lots of frog spawn yesterday, and another lot today. First time I've had it after populating small urban garden pond two years ago with tadpoles from a friends small garden pond. Didn't know frogs took two years to mature before they can breed. Well chuffed. Modern housing development with postage stamp (10m x 15m) of a garden in Woking, Surrey.
I still don't have any spawn and the frogs that were in the pond have disappeared. I am hoping that they have gone a courting. They were boy frogs as they had been hibernating in the bottom of the pond and I believe the boys stay in the pond overwinter and the girls find gaps under rocks/plants etc to hibernate.
Forecast is for frost. Should we cover over ponds with precious spawn with a layer of fleece to stop it freezing or just let nature take its course. Seem to remember couple of years ago people said they had lost all their spawn to hard frosts and ended up with no taddies.
Four clumps in total this year and frogs have left the pond. Pretty pleased with that result as the pond hasn't even been in a year yet. I agree Dove, although the weather has turned colder here I doubt we'll get a frost, we've only had a few frosty mornings all winter. It would probably need to be a hard frost with the pond surface freezing over to damage the spawn and the frogs survived before we invented fleece.
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Hi Mrs G, Couldn't believe my eyes - over 60!! Never had so many frogs...can't wait till the toads arrive to spawn, hoping they will be in spectacular numbers too
That is the pond of my dreams. One day if I'm lucky!
Yay the first clump of frogspawn in our new pond! Lots of small males croaking and enjoying the sun too.
Two lots of frog spawn yesterday, and another lot today. First time I've had it after populating small urban garden pond two years ago with tadpoles from a friends small garden pond. Didn't know frogs took two years to mature before they can breed. Well chuffed. Modern housing development with postage stamp (10m x 15m) of a garden in Woking, Surrey.
The frogs seem to have completed their spawn and have left the pond...now the toads have moved in and spawned today. (Essex)
I still don't have any spawn and the frogs that were in the pond have disappeared. I am hoping that they have gone a courting. They were boy frogs as they had been hibernating in the bottom of the pond and I believe the boys stay in the pond overwinter and the girls find gaps under rocks/plants etc to hibernate.
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Forecast is for frost. Should we cover over ponds with precious spawn with a layer of fleece to stop it freezing or just let nature take its course. Seem to remember couple of years ago people said they had lost all their spawn to hard frosts and ended up with no taddies.
I don't think we're expecting really hard frosts are we? Frogs have been breeding in British springs for quite a long time now ........
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Four clumps in total this year and frogs have left the pond. Pretty pleased with that result as the pond hasn't even been in a year yet. I agree Dove, although the weather has turned colder here I doubt we'll get a frost, we've only had a few frosty mornings all winter. It would probably need to be a hard frost with the pond surface freezing over to damage the spawn and the frogs survived before we invented fleece.