A Tale Of Random Spawning......
by Bernie Bell - 08:16 on 09 March 2025
A Tale Of Random Spawning......
On his daily constitutional, Mike noticed that some silly frogs had laid their spawn in a puddle which will dry out, in a ditch which is wet - but could also dry out - and even some in wheel ruts, which is a very dodgy place to lay spawn.
So, we set off with our spawn rescue kit – an old sieve on a long pole and a bucket..…
…gathered up the spawn and plonked it in the bucket with some puddle water..…
Then from the wheel ruts…
Then the first lot in the ditch…
The orange coloration is due to the high iron content of the water running off the fields. I wonder if that will affect the tadpoles in any way, when they eat the jelly?
There was yet more in another section of ditch…
Mike then gently emptied the bucket into a ‘vacant’ section of our pond….
….as the section where the ‘resident’ frogs have been laying is full…
This year there’s one less local pond for the frogs to lay in…
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