{"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

Another grey, wet day. Typical for the time of year, but perfectly fine for the pond dwellers. So that's where I turned my attention today. It's 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.
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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 more dangers<\/a>. But all that is some months ahead. For the moment they are immobile… and nutritious.
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The newts will limit the numbers that survive, but won't cause any major reduction in population. The frogs meanwhile are off hunting for their own food.
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On a separate note, the old dog fox was around last night and it seems his eye problem is improving. There's still some gunk around the eye, but it was more open than earlier in the week and he's clearly not remotely concerned by it!
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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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t