A little bit of sun and warmth and our frogs and toads have been out and about and producing spawn.

This large female toad has two males hanging on for dear life. She was sitting on the path near a pond, good job I was on foot rather than in my buggy or there would have been three flat toads!

There seems to be a fair batch of frog spawn on Woggle water pond, so I will be doing the same as last year, and putting a batch in my aquarium. We will release the froglets, when they appear, back into the same pond.

I spotted this little (or not so little, about 2cm long) chap sunning itself in the pond. It is a Greater Water Boatman.