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Suzy 
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 Posted: 16 Feb 2019 at 11:09pm |
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Nine wow! Lucky you.
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Posted: 16 Feb 2019 at 10:36pm |
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No need to be embarrassed at the quality of the photo - this is the best I can do (too cold to be wandering around the garden...) I count 9, but it is very cold out there...
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Posted: 16 Feb 2019 at 10:00pm |
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Just been out for another pond look and found the above frog, or one very similar, in the same spot but closely snuggled with another frog! Hurrah!
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Posted: 16 Feb 2019 at 9:18pm |
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At the comma stage! So that must be a week or two old by now.
Love the purple toothwort. Have only seen the other sort in hazel/oak woods in Yorkshire. A magical sight as it was everywhere I looked. Never seen any since. I now feel a bit embarrassed posting this image which I took a few minutes ago, as we now have spawn images. I didn't know it was there as I just shoot off shots and then come indoors and look at them on my laptop. It is a warm night at 9degC so I was surprised not more frog action.  Edited by Suzy - 16 Feb 2019 at 9:20pm |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2019 at 6:21pm |
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very nice!
lots of frog activity here but no spawn as yet |
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Posted: 16 Feb 2019 at 1:40pm |
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Yippee!! Frog spawn (though not from the garden).
Several clumps at 'Comma' stage, seen near Looe on Valentine's Day (some friends also reported finding lots of spawn across Dartmoor the same day):   Nearby, i scored a personal first for an interesting and beautiful plant species too. The 'regular' form (itself classed as 'uncommon' or 'local') of Toothwort Lathraea squamaria is parasitic on Hazel. The shorter and less frequent Purple Toothwort Lathraea clandestina occurs in a different habitat - very damp woodlands - because the host is usually Alder or Willow:    Edited by Liz Heard - 16 Feb 2019 at 2:15pm |
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Suzy
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Posted: 11 Feb 2019 at 5:20pm |
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Mmm now I'm not sure they were frogs the other day. Today I went out and there was much disturbance on the surface in the pondweed and I thought a frog, BUT it was one, or maybe two, palmate thrashing about. Having said that there was one trail of bubbles going off underwater the other day, like you get from a frog but not a newt! I will just have to have a proper sighting before I get over excited about frogs again! I did watch several times today as it was sunny and 10 degC (after zero this morning) but nothing moving except the newt/s.
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Posted: 09 Feb 2019 at 12:29am |
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No Ben..temps fell a bit this evening and all I saw was one palmate.
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Posted: 09 Feb 2019 at 12:13am |
 Anything happening now Suzy? A second warm, damp night here. The scene looks like it's starting to get set so i checked the ponds earlier and there were around 10 scattered males resting quietly, plus a 'gay' couple. However, it's normal to find low numbers of frogs throughout the year on all but the coldest days/nights. My partner claims to have heard calling today, but in this sector at the mo, it seems all quiet on the south-western front. I see frog spawn was photographed in Truro on 4th Feb though. |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2019 at 5:42pm |
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Couple of frogs swirled off in my largest pond this morning. Temps are up...10degC today. Will have a look tonight and see what's about.
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