In our last blog we were talking about how spring seemed to have come early this year, infact we had Primroses in January! Then a couple of days ago we spotted another sure sign of Spring - frogspawn! However since this first appeared in the pond the weather has turned much, much colder and some of the frogspawn has become trapped in ice. It was worrying to see and, though we hope that some will survive, it did get us thinking how vulnerable frogs are. So here are a few tips we'd like to share to help them as much as we can.
1. Keep your eyes open when out in the car in wet weather, lots of frogs are killed on the roads.
2. Build a garden pond but don't add goldfish as they will eat frogspawn and tadpoles.
3. If you aren't able to make a pond - make a compost heap. Frogs spend most of their life on land and they love to hide in compost heaps.
4. Make a frog-house from stones or an old flower pot and tuck it away in a damp corner of your garden. This will give any frogs that visit your garden a place to hide from cats.
5. Make a log pile or a rockery.
6. Try to resist the temptation to keep tadpoles in jars. Unless you happen to have found them in a puddle, or other very shallow water which might easily dry out, they are better left where they are.
7. Take care when mowing the lawn!
8. Allocate an area of your garden as a wildlife area - and try to resist the temptation to peek!
As we saw today, frogs are vulnerable! Let's give them all the help we can.
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