Frogs, frogspawn & tadpoles

Yesterday the first tiny tadpoles appeared in the garden pond.

This prompted me to trawl through my Facebook archives to see when frogspawn has first appeared in my garden pond.  

Some years I mention it, others not, and some years 

I mention when the first tadpoles appear.

Isn’t the find function fun and useful!

 

8 March 2012 at 10:32: YAY We've got frogspawn in the pond :}

11 March 2012 at 09:46:  More frogspawn! They're really getting the hang of it ...

25 March 2012 at 12:46:Tadpoles !:o}

Sienna Pond When I first read that I saw 'topless'!!! I thort "Lordy I know Ben is a free spirit but my oh my!!" xx

 

18 April 2013 at 18:38:  Today's news from Chateau Midden

1. The lady of the house has overdone the catching up on washing/ironing etc and the hurty head and neck came back :(

2. We have some tiny tadpoles hatched from the first batch of frogspawn that spent some time under ice.

 

4 March 2014 at 23:05:  Frogs coupling in my pond this afternoon  

 

7 March 2015 at 13:13: We have frogspawn

 

2 March 2016 at 08:39:Frogspawn!

13 March 2017 at 08:25: Five frogs in pond yesterday, two clumps of frogspawn in the pond this morning.

3 April 2017 at 16:22 :There are tadpoles in the pond.

22 March 2018 at 14:37: The warm weather has made the frogs really jiggy.  There are 7 clumps of spawn, the most we’ve ever had.  Mrs Quilt is coming over to take a cupful for her water-feature.

28 April 2018 at 12:39:  Tadpoles!  We have tadpoles

20 March 2019 at 10:43:  Frogpond #1 has so much frogspawn there's enough to risk transplanting a blob into Frogpond #2.

16 April 2019 at 18:36: We have tadpoles

2020

Between caring for Ferretfingers’ broken ankle, our stay in hospital, my subsequent illness where I hardly made it downstairs for a week let alone to the end of the garden, I missed when the frogspawn appeared.

27 March 2020 at 16:08: I think we may have some tiny tadpoles

 

10 March 2021 08.44: Frogspawn

31 March 2021 16.46: First tadpoles out today, teenytiny things, so some of the frogspawn survived even though it vanished.

 

In summation

The earliest date we had frogspawn is 2^nd March, the latest 22^nd March.

The earliest tadpoles appeared was 25^th March, the latest 28^th April.

Frogspawn has taken between 17 and 37 days to hatch, an average of 25 days

 

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