If you go down to the pond today....

[StuartR]

Well, if it's anything like ours, it will be full of frogs & frog-spawn! Never had so much spawn in the pond, counted 7 frogs watching me at one point but I'm sure there's more deeper in the pond.



Do you mind!



First flowering pond plants - and there's another frog in the picture!



Nice to get out in the garden, first time this year. Cleared some old shrubs out and grubbed an old, very rotten, Victoria plum tree - that leaves me room for another tree I love trees, I've got 2 apple, a cherry, a greengage, a peach, a pear & 2 Kentish cob nut. So another fruit tree I think - possibly a better specimen plum.

[coupekid]

Well we have at least 4 frogs in our pond, but still no damn spawn!! grrrr your very lucky Stuart!

[Patrick]

Originally Posted by coupekid

Well we have at least 4 frogs in our pond, but still no damn spawn!! grrrr your very lucky Stuart!

Only four, you should have seen our pond last week there was what seemed like hundreds, the orgy lasted over three days, and the pond is now overflowing with spawn. Possibly even more than in Stuarts pond and that’s only the shallow end. The deep end has a load as well but the fish will eat that when they start feeding again.
Those frogs start earlier every year.

Patrick

[StuartR]

Well, most of the frog spawn seems to have hatched this year so literally 100's of tadpoles in the shallows - this is just a small selection.

I guess most will get eaten by the fish but, if previous years are anything to go by, quite a few will make it to the froglet stage. (To be honest, the fish seemed to be ignoring them but were quite quick to take the food-sticks I threw in for them).

I'm hoping the bumper crop will attract a grass snake to the pond later in the spring - saw one swimming around the pond a couple of years back but didn't have a camera with me . Fabulous thing to watch though, made me quite proud of the pond we'd made and all the wild-life it attracts.