Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

This March 2nd, compared with:

2002 March 5th
2001 March 12th

1999 March 13th

Otoh the crocuses, wallflowers and rosemary are later than they were
last year - crocuses and wallflowers by a couple of weeks, and the
rosemary still isn't in flower.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

This March 2nd, compared with:

We still have no frog spawn, but then the pond was frozen till last week
which gave them a bit of a handicap.

Otoh the crocuses, wallflowers and rosemary are later than they were
last year - crocuses and wallflowers by a couple of weeks, and the
rosemary still isn't in flower.
--
Kay Easton

On the other hand rosemary and crocuses have been flowering for some time,
but they're on the sheltered South facing side of the house.

Anne

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

This March 2nd, compared with:

2002 March 5th
2001 March 12th

1999 March 13th

Otoh the crocuses, wallflowers and rosemary are later than they were
last year - crocuses and wallflowers by a couple of weeks, and the
rosemary still isn't in flower.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/

No frog spawn in my pond yet...but maybe that's because the cats brought in
another dead frog last week :-(

Will check the one at school tomorrow. I know there wasn't any last week
because the Reception Class wanted some for their topic on 'Natural
Changes'.

We have lots of Crocus & Iris in flower at school and even some Tulips.
Yesterday I noticed a whole load of Daffodils in full bloom, around the
corner from my house.

Natalie

In article , Anne
Wheeldon writes

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
...
Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

This March 2nd, compared with:

We still have no frog spawn, but then the pond was frozen till last week
which gave them a bit of a handicap.

Ours was frozen last week too! Husband was looking at it saying 'last
year's frogspawn was Mar 9th - there's no way there's going to be
frogspawn by Mar 9th this year'


--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:34:53 +0000, Kay Easton wrote:

Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

We've had it for a couple of days (Lincolnshire). Took this photo this
afternoon :-))

http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/pond.jpg

I *love* this time of year !
--
Regards,

Troy the Black Lab.


Woof Woof !!

In article , Troy
writes
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 13:34:53 +0000, Kay Easton wrote:

Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

We've had it for a couple of days (Lincolnshire). Took this photo this
afternoon :-))

http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/pond.jpg

I *love* this time of year !

That's a very good pic!

She looks as if she's enjoying it, but he just looks grimly determined
;-)

We had to persuade one of ours that he wasn't going to get anywhere with
the pump cable ;-)
Pond at the front has at least 8 frogs and the spawn
Pond at the back had 12 frogs lined up like a row of taxis in the deep
end, and a few more further up - it'll be a few more days before we get
spawn in there. Although that pond is at the south of the house, I
suspect its depth keeps it cool a bit longer.
Old pond, tucked in the shadow of the house, hasn't anything as yet.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/

In article ,
(Anne Wheeldon) wrote:

On the other hand rosemary and crocuses have been flowering for some
time,

Sir! Please Sir! I've got a flower on the Kerria Japonica! :-)

And on Vinca Minor :-)

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:37:17 +0000, Troy
wrote:

We've had it for a couple of days (Lincolnshire). Took this photo this
afternoon :-))

http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/pond.jpg

Jeepers! If any one didn't bother to go and have a look, you really
should you know.

Brilliant photo! Are you a professional?

Hussein
Grow a little garden

Troy wrote:

We've had it for a couple of days (Lincolnshire). Took this photo this
afternoon :-))

http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/pond.jpg

I *love* this time of year !
--
Regards,

Troy the Black Lab.



I know what you mean: my husband and I spent a happy few hours looking in
dune slack ponds in Aberffraw NNR and larger lakes in Newborough SSSI (on
Angelsey) yesterday. The dune clacks were full of freshly laid frog spawn
and mating toads, and there were so many toads in full grapple in the lake
in Newborough that they could be heard like a distant flock of geese! It is
later here this year: last year the toads had spawned and gone by the last
week of February and the frogs had spawned by middle of February. It was
bad breeding year though round here last year because of low water levels:
the slacks had almost dried out altogether by the end of March.

Your photograph is a really good one. Would you mind if I used it in
lectures I give to undergraduates on amphibian breeding?
Anita
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Kay Easton wrote in message ...
Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

This March 2nd, compared with:

2002 March 5th
2001 March 12th

1999 March 13th

Otoh the crocuses, wallflowers and rosemary are later than they were
last year - crocuses and wallflowers by a couple of weeks, and the
rosemary still isn't in flower.

We had about 40 frogs on the paths leading to the pond last night.
This is a much larger number at any one time than last year, so that's
very heartening.
--
Sacha

On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:00:13 +0000, Hussein M. wrote:

Brilliant photo! Are you a professional?

Thanks but far from it :-)) just lucky with that one !
--
Regards,

Troy the Black Lab.


Woof Woof !!

On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:43:23 +0000, A.Malhotra wrote:

Your photograph is a really good one. Would you mind if I used it in
lectures I give to undergraduates on amphibian breeding?

Thanks and please feel free to use it. It's very reduced in size and
compressed - so if you want to print it or whatever, the original image
(517K) can be found at :

http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/pond2.jpg

HTH.
--
Regards,

Troy the Black Lab.


Woof Woof !!

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:54:52 +0000, Troy
wrote:

Thanks and please feel free to use it. It's very reduced in size and
compressed - so if you want to print it or whatever, the original image
(517K) can be found at :

http://www.troytheblacklab.co.uk/pond2.jpg


I have got rather bored with the background I made for myself out of
Cuban pebbles (Windoze desktop).

Just musing.

Hussein
"For of all gainful professions, nothing
is better, nothing more pleasing,
nothing more delightful, nothing better
becomes a well-bred man than
agriculture"

$$$$$$ Cicero $$$$$$

Kay Easton wrote in message
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Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

This March 2nd, compared with:

2002 March 5th
2001 March 12th

1999 March 13th


Here on the Black Isle (20 miles north of Inverness) we noticed our
first frog spawn this afternoon, just one day earlier than last year.
My husband was planning to drain the lower pond tomorrow to clean the
circulating pump. We'll just have to hope it keeps going until the
autumn and try to clean it then.

Kristina
www.black-isle.info/orchard

(kdupar) wrote in message ...
Kay Easton wrote in message
...
Our first frog spawn today in Leeds

This March 2nd, compared with:

2002 March 5th
2001 March 12th

1999 March 13th


Here on the Black Isle (20 miles north of Inverness) we noticed our
first frog spawn this afternoon, just one day earlier than last year.
My husband was planning to drain the lower pond tomorrow to clean the
circulating pump. We'll just have to hope it keeps going until the
autumn and try to clean it then.

Can anyone tell me how long it is from frogs mating to laying?!
We've had loads of frogs around but seen no spawn yet.
--

Sacha