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Yes it's fairly recently hatched tadpoles feeding on the 'jelly' with a few unhatched/infertile eggs remaining. UK Frogs do clumps of spawn.
Newts tend to deposit individual eggs on plants, often folding a leaf around it, so you probably wouldn't even be able to see it.
And toads do strings of jellied eggs!
Newts tend to deposit individual eggs on plants, often folding a leaf around it, so you probably wouldn't even be able to see it.
And toads do strings of jellied eggs!
bexVN said:
My assumption was young children.
We had a big pond when I was a child. And I ate sand, and worms. I fell out of trees, and I fell into rivers. I played on farmland, and I sledged into a Landrover coming up the hill.I am still here, and none the worse for my childhood. I wish people could let their kids be kids.
Doofus said:
bexVN said:
My assumption was young children.
We had a big pond when I was a child. And I ate sand, and worms. I fell out of trees, and I fell into rivers. I played on farmland, and I sledged into a Landrover coming up the hill.I am still here, and none the worse for my childhood. I wish people could let their kids be kids.
OP - could you at least keep a small pond in the same place? Frogs return to the same location year after year to spawn, and those tadpoles will too. It would be such a shame if all they find is grass or concrete. They don't need a lake - just a small shallow (and todler-safe) pool will do.
orangeknight said:
Thanks for your replies everyone... will give it a few weeks and see what they turn into. We have been told that newts have been seen in the pond before.
We ideally want rid of the pond due to having dogs and wanting the space back.
In that case may be do as suggested above and just shrink it down? May depend on the size of your dogs, little ones can get in trouble in ponds aswell unfortunately. But if it does have newts that is lovely, fascinating creatures We ideally want rid of the pond due to having dogs and wanting the space back.
orangeknight said:
Thanks for your replies everyone... will give it a few weeks and see what they turn into. We have been told that newts have been seen in the pond before.
We ideally want rid of the pond due to having dogs and wanting the space back.
As I said before, it's frog tadpoles. It's too early for newt tadpoles and newts lay SINGLE eggs.We ideally want rid of the pond due to having dogs and wanting the space back.
In a week or 2 the tadpoles will have dispersed and you will think they've all gone, they haven't.
The froglets won't emerge until mid-summer to Autumn.
Mr GrimNasty said:
I agree it's a shame, but the same location thing is a bit of a myth, they follow the frog-chorus grrrrppp grrrrrrrp grrrrrrpp and the smell of water, they will find their way to another pond if they have to.
If it's a myth it's repeated on:www.froglife.org: "Amphibians tend to return to the same pond each year".
www.arc-trust.org/frogs-toads-no-pond.html - "Amphibians migrate to ponds in spring, often returning to areas where they spawned in previous years."
The common frog's call is pretty quiet - I'm not sure it would carry very far.
But whatever - their numbers are in serious decline and they need all the help they can get.
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