Frogs and Frog spawn

       

Found some frogspawn in the garden today and it wasn't in the pond! It was in the Dog bed minipond.



   

I always associate frogspawn with ponds or still water but all the frogspawn I have seen whilst out walking has been in rivulets of running water and none in the small ponds?

Spotted a tiny tadpole in the old pond - the one I want to drain!. Drain work is on hold until the tadpoles are bigger - or I can make a small pond in the corner of the pond. Each time I go down to the pond I have a different plan for it!

Never get a spawn in our pond even though we do get the occasional frog, probably because it's got a waterfall so the water is agitated (maybe the frogs are too )

More taddies today.

So pleased for this reminder about the taddies.
Had several large clumps of spawn in the garden pond - but the voracious goldfish have decimated them.
Spent a happy hour fishing the survivors out one by one to transfer them to a nice fish free ditch that is the boundary of our garden.
They’ve definitely got a much better chance in the ditch than in our pond!

I've read that frog spawn has been spotted in West Wales. Wonder whether there'll be any here this year?
You can report sightings at https://freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/advice...wn-survey/

Haven't seen any frogspawn yet but............yesterday, whilst raking up some dead grass I "raked" up a huge dead frog. At least it looked dead but apparently they can play dead if threatened? I covered it with grass to hide it from the dogs but forgot to look for it today. It was very near the "dog bed" pond where there was spawn last year. I hope I didn't harm it.

Yay!! There are 2 huge clumps of frogspawn in the old pond. That'll slow down my plans for growing courgettes there for a while!

Yep,I noticed a large clump of frogspawn in exactly the same position in a small rivulet as last year whilst out walking Kato. There are loads of little rivulets near by without frogspawn so I wonder whether frogs have some sort of inbuilt homing signal that tells them that spawning in a particular area that has been successful in the past is the place to spawn?