It’s ‘that’ time of year! I didn’t spot them initially, then wondered what was making the ripples in the water … and, when I looked closer, felt like a voyeur.

I think my photos all show Toads (though I couldn’t see their bodies or sizes properly, they all seemed to have lumpy backs) but there must have been plenty of Frogs around as well because I found both Toad and Frog spawn. Toad spawn comes in long strings, as shown in the right of the upper photo below, whereas Frog spawn consists of single eggs all lumped together. Some of the Frog spawn had obviously been there for a few days as the tiny tadpoles were already beginning to develop.