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Frogspawn but far less frogs in the pond
I think that my big pond cleanout in February may have rattled the frogs. Usually their annual bacchanal starts by mid March. Even though there have been a few frogs in the pond, there were loads of hopeful croaks but no frogspawn. “Perhaps they are all the same sex.” I mused. Last weekend when I was visiting TCL and S they proudly showed off their frogspawn. I was gutted. Why hadn’t I got some too? But this morning the pond had frogspawn, in different areas than usual but loads of it. I’m delighted. But instead of the forty or so...
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