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No spawn here yet, but we saw our first double decker on Sunday. Himself has been noting the date of first frog spawn in our ponds (2 in the back garden, one in the front) for many years. It was always within a day or two of March 19th here - but a couple of weeks earlier last year. We often get frogs clumping - several stuck together in a big pile, which has led him to the theory that frogs have about 5 sexes and you need one of each in the heap for frog spawn!

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vegheaven.blogspot.comUpdated July 1st 2008

had a frog trying to mate with a fish a few years back! oooh errr

X rated or what Headfry!

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vegheaven.blogspot.comUpdated July 1st 2008

Apparently that's quite common - the frogs get so amorous they forget to be very choosy about their partners!

It doesn't usually do the fish any harm, and personally I'd much rather have frogs than fish - I think they are mush more interesting and they eat slugs!

Forget it their here

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Congratulations Gradpa!

At, last, we now have loads of clumps of spawn in the pond. As our pond has fish in about half of it will go to the allotment ponds.

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updated Monday 28th April at 11.50hrs

have you got toad spawn too PW?

To be honest Jeannine I havent really looked, I noticed the frog spawn as I walked down to my workshop.

Last year we had lots of toadspawn anchored to marginal plants and its twin strings of eggs were only really visible if we looked, the frog spawn just sits near the top like clumps of marbles so was easily seen.

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Kindest regards, David.

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updated Monday 28th April at 11.50hrs

I've never seen a toad in the wild in this country, maybe I need to build a few more log piles!

We get young toads by the thousand at work in September. Quite a few end up in the primary crusher basement where the only way out is via a pump so I rescue them. In the last two years a couple of thousand have been released at home or on the plots.

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http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated Monday 28th April at 11.50hrs

Our frogs are still busy mating but no spawn yet. They don't like getting frozen...

Our frogs were 'at it' last weekend: I counted 16 at one point, and I'm sure there were more. The result is a few clumps of spawn, but after a couple of hard frosts in the week, the protruding spawn has unfortunately been frosted, but the submerged stuff seems ok.
No toad spawn yet, but on previous experience, our toads tend to wait a while longer than the frogs: tantric sex??

Thought it was too cold also,until yesterday I noticed a movement in the pond as a frog dived away from the edge as I approached.Quick look into water and noticed a nice big ball of frogspawn. I've now got to "cat proof" the pond with some netting to stop them going "fishing".
For the last three years I've toyed with the idea of filling in the pond to create more space for veg etc but every year the frogs come and I realise that the enjoyment(and benefits regarding pest control) far outweigh the benefit of an extra few veg.
Now bring on the warm weather for the dragon fly "air show"!!

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Spiderpig

I haven't seen the frogs or any frog spawn in our pond yet. Just thought I'd put a reminder on here that you shouldn't transfer frog spawn from one pond to another because it can transfer diseases etc. Froglife sent me an email with a link to this.
Froglife - conserving native frogs, toads, newts, lizards, snakes

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i asked biology teacher at my school what tadpoles can eat if your pond is not mature and she said goldfish food(and each other)

Loads of spawn and it started to hatch last weekend

Still no sign of frog spawn here

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Bren

Too cold. 2c at night and frogs don't like wind.

-3c forecast for Sunday nite:-(