Strange place for frogs to spawn?

[Hez]

Hi everyone, specially Toadpole Earlier this year, my husband discovered a large mound of jelly (dinner plate size) high and dry on the grass in the middle of our rough track! There is no water close except for puddles in the ruts each side of the track, but these are driven through daily and drain away rapidly.

My hubby took a shovel and a plastic storage box and rescued the stuff. Though it was muddy and rough looking, it looked like frogspawn of some kind. The individual eggs looked larger than I remembered though. We half-filled the box with green rain water. Anyway next day there were two ducks basking in the sun on the track right where the spawn had been!

Within a day the eggs started to hatch, and soon we had lots of little tadpoles. Tadpoles were black when I was a child. Now they are much lighter. I wonder why?

Our little rascals have done well considering their bad start! They were given pond weed, and flaked food, as well as mosquito lavae and daphnia - which I don't need to buy because it just arrives in my tubs and containers! I am a container water-gardener and have about ten with waterlilies in them. No fish, just different wee beasties in each container, including a palmate newt! I have pictures of him but they are very poor - just ok to identify if you zoom in

The tadpoles are getting their legs! They go upside-down to eat the flakes sometimes. I was amazed to see that their underbellies shine real metallic copper in the light. They look like beautiful little Venetian glass beads!

I need to give them a pond, and quickly, groan...wish I was younger, fitter, and richer! 'Bye for now!

Hez

[Krewella]

Lol you had a frog as daft as the one in our garden layed eggs no pond but I was silly enough to dig one ( very hard work for very small pond lol ) but they are little froglets now and I'm plaesed we did it.

[Hez]

Originally Posted by Krewella

Lol you had a frog as daft as the one in our garden layed eggs no pond but I was silly enough to dig one ( very hard work for very small pond lol ) but they are little froglets now and I'm plaesed we did it.

Thanks for replying Krewella - (can't imagine you chasing dalmation pups)!
Well done with your froglets. I don't think our daft frogs 'evolved' at the same rate as the ones who lay eggs in water lol! Lets hope the babies don't act as twp (sorry that's Welsh for
- silly/stupid/daft!) when they grow up!