We had plenty of sunshine on Tuesday but it remained cold all day with the temperature only managing to make it up to a high of 9.6°C (49.3°F). That was after a cold start to the morning with a low of 0.4°C (32.7°F). The forecast was for some heavy showers but we avoided them all apart from a sprinkling in the middle of the afternoon.
It didn't tempt me out to do any gardening so I managed to get a little bit of photo and video editing done instead. Last week I posted about our frogs not making it to the pond before depositing their spawn in a plant saucer full of water. I can now confirm that several frogs have found their way into the pond and they haven’t wasted any time producing large clumps of frogspawn.
Now they've found their way into the pond they do seem to be having some “fun”. With a pond full of frogspawn I’m now not quite so concerned about their initial attempt of depositing spawn in the plant saucer. We've some quite enormous clumps in the pond and they appear to have every intention of adding more to it. I've put together a little bit of video of them up to their antics.
I was busy editing the frog video when I noticed a couple of long tailed tits land in the medlar tree. We used to see them regularly in the garden but over the last couple of years they have become infrequent visitors. I quickly picked up the camera but it didn't help much as they flittered quickly from tree to tree and tested out a few feeders too.
After a couple of minutes in the garden they were off over the fields. I suppose I should count myself lucky to have spotted them at all.
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That top photo is fantastic. Glad the frogs managed to find the pond in the end, it sounds very relaxing in your garden with the trickling water. I've never seen long tailed tits in our garden but I've been told we have them on the allotment site, I've never seen them though. I'm thrilled that there's nest building going on in my nest box though, it seems that the blue tits have taken a liking to it.
ReplyDeleteBlue tits keep popping into our nest box at various times through the day. We're still waiting for our great tits to start building. One bird continues to roost in the box overnight. Glad you've got some blue tits nesting in your box.
DeleteAfter viewing the frog video, I was struck with what Jo mentioned above...relaxing sounds of the trickling water. I think it would be easy to spend an hour listening and watching! Question: can you ever have too many frogs in the pond? I want a pond A LOT but husband has to be on board first :) Loved your video!
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed the video. I think we have about six frogs in the pond producing masses of frogspawn so it might be possible to have too many in a pond. If all our frogspawn turned into frogs we'd be overrun with tiny frogs. Good luck at getting that pond.
DeleteInteresting to read about your 'froggy action', and, sad person that I am, I always record the date I first see frogs in our ponds. We are south of you, in Lincolnshire, and I first saw out frogs last Thursday which was about two weeks later than last year. may I say, they are making up for lost time !!
ReplyDeleteWe must be a bit sad too as we keep a record (by photo) of when we spot frogs back in the pond. Ours were a little bit later back this year too.
DeleteMeant to say, love your froggy eyes photos !
ReplyDeleteNearly titled the post "the eyes have it".
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