Frogs are really now getting in the spawning mood.....

Jane Adams aka @Wildlifestuff posted this video of frogs in her garden pond - 19 clumps of spawn is the largest reported so far to the Big Spawn Count 2012

Frogs are have now turned up as far north as Edinburgh. Frogspawn have been reported from Kent, New Forest, Devon, Somerset and the number of spawn clumps are gradually rising in ponds up and down the country. The main thing to do is keep an eye on the numbers of clumps turning up in your chosen pond or ponds. Once you see that no more spawn is being deposited this would be the peak of the breeding in that particular pond. It is this number which allows an estimate of the frog population in any given pond. Please do help our common frogs and send in the peak spawn clump counts to Pond Conservation for the Big Spawn Count 2012.

More news to follow soon....