Frogspawn

[gness]

Does anyone have any yet? My daughter in Devon has a pond full but there's none here yet....that I know of.....

Gx

[DaisyNonna]

When I started teaching I was expected to eat with the children to encourage them to have good table manners and eat everything on the plate. Can remember throwing up in the staff toilet immediately afterwards.

[tonyav]

LOL, I'm not surprised by that, Daisy.

[jim360]

Well so much for my "frog's porn" joke.

[stuey]

Oh! Now I got it, Jim: it hopped right over my head...I was wondering what you meant:)

[tonyav]

I wondered where he hatched that from.

[gness]

Lord save us.....I only wanted to know about frogspawn...I go off into my sewing room after a little accident with a bird box and come back to porn and tapioca.......:-0

Thanks, Gail...and it's frog not toad, Melv....x

[DaisyNonna]

Was trying to avid that Jim, too French for me. Is that what one finds in hock shops?

[tonyav]

after a little accident with a bird box

Hang on hang on, what happened ?.

[gness]

Tomorrow's tale, Tony......the bruise is just getting interesting......☺

[tonyav]

Oh gawd, did it involve an hammer, gness ?.

[stuey]

Gness, that there problem with a bird box? I sure do be hopping that you didn't squash a cuckoo clock!

[Hypognosis]

Since the whole idea of a frog laying so many eggs *in one place* is to ensure the survival of at least two or three, after losses to predation (including eating their siblings), the only thing you can achieve by taking some away is assure that the predators win and that pond will be depopulated when the adults die off.

If you wait long enough and the frogs are successful enough, overcrowding will force some individuals to seek new ponds and they will start using yours without you having to lift a finger.

Moving newts about is £5000 fine per incident, apparently.

https://www.gov.uk/great-crested-newts-protection-surveys-and-licences

Indeed, how can you be sure you are not depriving a male, in the wild, of its mate if you take her to help out 'your' one?

[gness]

No hammer......some severe squashing...but not a cuckoo clock.....☺

[DaisyNonna]

Depriving a male of a mate? Perfectly good female behaviour.

[gness]

If the snakes eat all the spawn in the friend's pond as they have been doing there will be no frogs anyway....that's what's been happening....not a tadpole or froglet left...so if I bring some here they'll have a chance at least......x

[tonyav]

.some severe squashing.

I won't ask what was squashed yet, gness.

[DaisyNonna]

Reminds me I have a bird box to install. Have a hammer but no ladder.

[tonyav]

DaisyNonna
Depriving a male of a mate? Perfectly good female behaviour.

doh.


£5000 fine for moving a newt, thanks for that, Hyypognosis.

[DaisyNonna]

Lekker slap

[DaisyNonna]

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