It’s half way through March. This morning there was a large single blob of frog spawn in the corner of our pond. I’ll have to check last year’s diary, but this must be a couple of weeks later than last year. From a distance you can see the surface of the water moving, it seems, of its own accord. Underneath the frogs are ‘at it’.
It is 3 years since we’ve had 30+ frogs in residence, but usually there is a small advance guard followed by all of the potential breeders. At the moment I can’t see any adults at all, but there are obviously at least 2. When you go too near the pond they freeze, or dive for cover. Waiting a few minutes usually sees them popping back to the surface one by one. I was thinking of dropping a GoPro in there and doing a wildlife cameraman busman’s holiday, but unless some more arrive I’ll leave them in peace. Maybe next year the numbers will recover?
