ED Nature Watch

[ianr]

23 minutes ago, malumbu said:

Got loads of frogspawn.  Don't have that much success as can't keep it in the pond as the newts eat it. 

Any chance of  fobbing them off with tapioca pudding?

[malumbu]

I hear they are nice in your wellies, free frogspawn to anyone who know the literary  reference

[Sue]

8 hours ago, malumbu said:

Got loads of frogspawn.  Don't have that much success as can't keep it in the pond as the newts eat it.  I took the first clump out yesterday and put it in a bucket with netting on top.  The loads more appeared.,...

Last year I kept it like this and then transferred to some large plant saucers when they were near to walking onto land.  Had to top up the water, provide shade as they will have cooked in the sunshine, and fed with boiled cabbage, kale or other green stuff. I got a few froglets.  two or three years ago I picked up some spawn from someone in SE22 who had a whole nursery, numerous ponds, in their back garden.

Never seen any baby newts or spawn, maybe have ten or more, but I know they go roaming.

I have a very small garden with a "pond" in an old Belfast sink and a couple of other small water containers used by birds and sometimes frogs.

I have had frogspawn,  but it usually gets eaten by something (no idea what. Cats?)  though I have had tadpoles and froglets in the past.

I had never seen any newts until a couple of years ago when I opened the door of my tiny shed and found a pile of eggs just inside and a newt hastily scarpering out of a hole at the back of the shed.

The eggs  must have only just been laid. Had I not seen the newt, I would have had no idea what they were. It seems a strange place to lay them.

Sadly they didn't come to anything, they just sort of dried up.

Malumbu, I would like some of your frogspawn if you have any to spare?  Or if anybody else has any?

Edited 18 hours ago by Sue