1st Frog Spawn

I have a garden pond. It is not a great pond, you can see the plastic casing round the top, nor is it very big. If it ever leaks I will replace it with something much bigger. Nonetheless, it has been in situ for some years now and the water is always clear, so I must be doing something right.

The birds regularly use it for bathing and drinking and it frequently has frogs who regularly deposit frog spawn in the Spring. I have been keeping my eye on it regularly over the past few days for just such an event and today :

Frogs and Spawn

Indeed there were 3 Frogs present at the time I took this. Later on Louise reckoned she had 4.