A new year dawns!
As you know I don’t remove the cover until the clocks change but this year – just like last, and around the same time – there is frog spawn in the pond.
This was so exciting last year and I put half in the water barrel and half in the fish tank and then NOTHING. Felt guilty all year and worse – no frogs. After years of waiting for my fish to breed, all of a sudden I had my own bona fide frog spawn. And I killed it.
This year…well no koi for a start…no big fat fuckers to feed on the spawn. And the cover is not a net but those smart round plastic inter connecting covers from the bastion of middle class suppliers - Scotts of Stow.
I have three blobs on the plastic. I WISH I had a camera and could have seen that frog returning like a salmon to his home ..jumping across the pond dropping his spawn behind him.
Something went wrong last year. In my head I blamed it on climate change. But its curious he has come back at exactly the same time.
Last year I searched the ponds of sussex but to no avail. No spawn
At Preston park there is a pond with NEWTS! This year I WILL have spawn.
Watch this space.
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