Pondlife!

We have a resident pondskater, about four clumps of frogspawn which we have got to establish a colony of Common Frogs and two Smooth Newts probably hoping to breed although the male's crest is rather small yet and the female doesn't look very full of eggs. Two clumps of frogspawn have hatched, the first now has free swimming tadpoles whilst the other still has gilled tadpoles; both of which are snacking at the other frogspawn! Also last years froglet was swimming around and there is some toadspawn wrapped in the emergent plants.