I had scraped all the frogspawn off the ground I could and dumped it into a bucket. Most of the spawn had dried out too much and wasn't viable, but we thought we had 13 tadpoles.
Today, it was time to move them into a container more suitable for froglets, though there is no sign of embryonic legs yet. I moved them one by one and was thrilled to find that we have 27 healthy and lively tadpoles.
A couple of months ago, I thought I'd found a small, but perfectly formed, lump of black pearl slime mould just outside our back door. Each "sporangium" was about 2 mm across and looked perfectly black.
Subsequently, I found two other lumps in a direct line to the pond...
As an experiment, I scraped up a very sticky lump and dropped it into a bucket of water. Within half an hour, it was expanding and showing transparent albumen and central black nuclei. Frog's eggs... Somebody couldn't wait!
On a lighter point from my other posts so far today, I not only saw my first bumblebee of the year, I also found my first frog spawn on my lunchtime dog walk around Victoria Park in Glasgow. Both are good signs Spring is finally here.
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