Back home, I'm beginning to wonder whether we will see any frog spawn this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I wrote that late last night. Early this morning the frogs had responded. A small clump of spawn appeared in the pond. By this evening it had become a sizeable clump. Nice work, frogs. Nice work! Spawn is obviously a precious commodity in a pond. The frogs do their best to defend it from attack, standing guard and croaking loudly. The danger though is often from below. The newts are like kids in a candy store. Some newts have no shame at all and immerse themselves in the nutritious abundance. This, by the way, is not always a wise move on the part of the newt. They do sometimes become entombed, providing a ready source of food for the emergent hungry tadpoles. But this one seemed ok. For now! I really need to dig out the ring-flash to get decent close-ups, but for now this will have to do. As for what happens next, here's a sequence I prepared earlier \ud83d\ude09 – the full frog spawn development<\/a> cycle from 3 years ago.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens.<\/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":[86,1047,1026],"tags":[1149,114,173],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frog","category-frog-spawn-amphibians-2","category-newt-amphibians-2","tag-frog","tag-newt","tag-spawn","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}