IT MIGHT BE about a month late thanks to the cold, sometimes snowy weather but at last there’s a clump of frogspawn in the pond with at least 14 frogs, most of them gathered around the clump which is on the sunnier, shallower side of the pond.
Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
IT MIGHT BE about a month late thanks to the cold, sometimes snowy weather but at last there’s a clump of frogspawn in the pond with at least 14 frogs, most of them gathered around the clump which is on the sunnier, shallower side of the pond.
Just read this article and thought you would enjoy the frog info. So glad that you are getting a bit of spring at home. Hugs, Rachel http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/How-the-Tree-Frog-Has-Redefined-Our-View-of-Biology-183845601.html
It’s suddenly like summer this morning and I can tell you that’s there’s an awful lot of, as the Smithsonian people would say, phenotypic plasticity going on in the shallowest sunny corner of the pond. Making a rough count from the studio window there are at least half a dozen clumps of spawn this morning and 16 or more frogs.