Frogs!

Splash!
The frogs hide beneath
their spawn.

For NaPoWriMo

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Yesterday we were round at Crafty Green Boyfriend's mother's house. We took the time to check out the garden ponds:

the larger pond (though not actually all that big) is generally home to several frogs. We didn't see any, though the water was moving in tantalising ways. It was lovely to see the frogspawn, which has started hatching already.

When we turned round we saw a splash in the small pond, but didn't actually see the frog and when we walked past, all we could see was more frogspawn almost ready to hatch

Later in the evening, there was a second clump of spawn in the small pond, though still the frogs were hiding.

A grey heron flew past, but thankfully didn't land. A heron can empty a garden pond of all its frogs and tadpoles in probably less than an hour.

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