{"id":1336,"date":"2009-03-14T00:03:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T00:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1336"},"modified":"2013-11-15T18:44:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:44:04","slug":"frog-spawn-and-a-very-special-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/frog-spawn-and-a-very-special-treat\/","title":{"rendered":"Frog Spawn (and a very special treat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Last night I posted a picture of 'frogs a-courting<\/a>' in my 365 album. Today the pond was laden with spawn. <\/p>\n

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Assuming the conditions stay good I'll try to keep a regular photo record of the changes in the spawn over the coming weeks. The spawn is almost two weeks later than last year, when it appeared on 1st March. The tadpoles emerged after about two weeks on March 16th 2008, so this year I would expect to see them hatch around the end of the month. The late start is no doubt due to the much colder weather we've had. <\/p>\n

But I promised a special treat, and it takes the form of a very blurred photo, but the first success with trail cam that arrived earlier in the week. The cam takes infra red shots, and I think the lens may have had moisture on it hence the poor quality of this photo (ones of me taken while I was testing it are far clearer, but deeply gruesome!). But it's a fox, and as I've said before… foxes get posted.<\/p>\n

\"trailFox taken with GL80 trail cam<\/span><\/p>\n

I need to play around with distance settings and position to see if I can improve the clarity of the image. It also takes video, which is how it's currently set while I type this. it will be interesting to see what I have on it by morning.
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Camera note: all the spawn shots taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens. the first two used the Canon 430EX flash unit, and the last two the Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash. The fox was caught with the GL80 stealth-trail-cam.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1047],"tags":[1128,399,523],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frog-spawn-amphibians-2","tag-fox","tag-frog-spawn","tag-trail-cam","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