Tag: Pond

At last I’ve got software to make my old intel play microscope work. I don’t know what took me so long to look for it and down load it. Of course now that it works, the quality is a little sad, but then it is quite old and we’ve come to expect so much of…

I’ve been so enjoying my pond this summer. There are masses of tadpoles. As I look out of my studio window, the surface shimmers as the pop to the surface for a mouthful of air. I got a picture of one breathing, below. I love the way they turn belly up to breathe. Also on…

I had a sneeky feeling last year that something ate my frog spawn. I also had a paranoid thought that someone may have come and stolen it for a joke! Anyway, last year all my frog spawn disappeared overnight. The only possible clue was a disturbance of the gravel on “the beach”. I wondered if…