No spawn here in the West Midlands yet but do have pairs of frog (if you
know what I mean)
Also newts which bred earlier than frogs. I understand that newts eat
frogspawn.

Will have to log in to check my records for last year, but it is rather late
now so leave it till tomorrow/today (sunday)
regards
Cineman


"MadCow" wrote in message
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In message et, Sally
Thompson writes

Saw our first frogspawn of the year today - two weeks earlier than usual
(last year was on 11th March). I think this is very early for this part
of
the country. We went out just now with the torch and the big pond is
teeming
with frogs. Quite lifts the heart.

My tiny pond (in Reading) could easily freeze over in March, but some frog
has laid a huge mass of spawn in a shallow place, with some of the spawn
sticking up above water level.

Also newts already in the pond, which seems early to us although we
haven't
kept a record of dates of those.

I'd like newts. Would they be able to survive in small suburban gardens
if I could get some spawn?

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Sue ]