Bernie Bell

On his daily constitutional, Mike noticed that some silly frogs had laid their spawn in a puddle which will dry out, in a ditch which is wet – but could also dry out – and even some in wheel ruts, which is a very dodgy place to lay spawn. 

So, we set off with our spawn rescue kit – an old sieve on a long pole and a bucket

gathered up the spawn and plonked it in the bucket with some puddle water

Then from the wheel ruts

Then the first lot in the ditch

The orange coloration is due to the high iron content of the water running off the fields.  I wonder if that will affect the tadpoles in any way, when they eat the jelly?

There was yet more in another section of ditch

Mike then gently emptied the bucket into a ‘vacant’ section of our pond

as the section where the ‘resident’ frogs have been laying is full

And now we wait for the  ‘dots’ to turn into ‘commas’!