robert wrote:


As mentioned in an earlier thread our first frog of the year appeared on
16 January, but very sensibly disappeared two days later. Yesterday I
counted 9 in the pond but no sign of any spawn as yet.

The relatively dry December followed by the recent spell of unusually
cold weather will have undoubtedly thinned out the frog population but
there is still time for them to appear.


My pond had been frozen for over a week with the cold temperatures.
Following the rise in temperature, it finally melted over Saturday night.
On Sunday morning there were 2 clumps of frogspawn and since then the
pond has been a seething mass of frogs.
We seem to just get more and more each year.

Jeff
NE England