Tag: frogspawn

  • Frogspawn Miracle in my Pond

    I was so worried that all my frogs would have died but no! This morning I was greeted by a blob of fresh frogspawn so at least one frog made it through the cold snap. I’ve since learned that it’s not just the cold that gets them, but the lack of oxygen as the water…

  • Frozen Pond Killed my Frogs

    The end of this video is not for the squeamish. When I built my Studio at the bottom of the garden I built a pond too, so I’d have some wildlife goings on to watch while I was daydreaming out of the window. Just two weeks ago, the frogs were thinking of laying frogspawn, but…

  • Tadpoles

    The tadpoles have hatched in my pond. These little ones are sunning themselves in the warm shallows. No, those are not legs or arms sticking out of their sides, but gills. That’s what they breathe with before they metamorphose into air-breathing amphibians. Strangely, a new dollop of Frogspawn appeared this morning. Someone was a bit…