{"id":1087,"date":"2008-03-08T23:03:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1087"},"modified":"2013-11-22T22:40:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:40:38","slug":"amphibian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/amphibian\/","title":{"rendered":"Amphibian"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Another grey, wet day. Typical for the time of year, but perfectly fine for the pond dwellers. So that&#39;s where I turned my attention today. It&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2008\/03\/01\/the-frogs-are-spawning\" target=\"_blank\">a week<\/a> since the frog spawn appeared and I wanted to see how it was developing, especially as we had a frost earlier in the week which left a thin layer of ice over the pond surface.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2frogspawn_0803088007.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2frogspawn_0803088008.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Despite the volume of spawn, it will eventually only produce a small number of mature frogs. Some of the spawn will fail to develop, and only a proportion of the tadpoles that do emerge will make it through to metamorphosis. And even then the young froglets face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/fox\/movie\/foxcatch1408.html\" target=\"_blank\">more dangers<\/a>. But all that is some months ahead. For the moment they are immobile&#8230; and nutritious.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/newt_0803088086.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/newt_0803088047.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The newts will limit the numbers that survive, but won&#39;t cause any major reduction in population. The frogs meanwhile are off hunting for their own food.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/frog_0803088073.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On a separate note, the old dog fox was around last night and it seems his eye problem is improving. There&#39;s still some gunk around the eye, but it was more open than earlier in the week and he&#39;s clearly not remotely concerned by it! <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fox_dog_0703087991.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots were photographed with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens. I used the full set of extension tubes and ring flash for the two macros of the spawn.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,86,1047,1026],"tags":[166,1128],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-frog","category-frog-spawn-amphibians-2","category-newt-amphibians-2","tag-amphibians","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}