Positively primeval #wildlife

Posted by Wildwood on Jun 25, 2025 in 2025, Amphibians, An English Wood Blog, Common Frog, Fauna, June, Summer | 0 comments

A bit of a cheat, Frog tadpoles, Rana temporaria, in the garden pond. I hope those in the wood are also on their way to becoming froglets.

Video taken on June 6.

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Spawned! #amphibian

Posted by Wildwood on Mar 31, 2025 in 2025, Amphibians, An English Wood Blog, Common Frog, Fauna, March, Spring | 0 comments

Hoping a few of these in the pond will survive to become frogs, Rana temporaria.

Picture taken March 25.

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Frog #wildlife

Posted by Wildwood on Mar 21, 2025 in 2025, Amphibians, An English Wood Blog, Common Frog, Fauna, March, Spring | 0 comments

Rana temporaria spotted near where they have spawned in the past. Fingers crossed.

Picture taken March 10.

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Common Frog #amphibian

Posted by Wildwood on Jun 27, 2022 in 2022, Amphibians, An English Wood Blog, Common Frog, Fauna, June, Summer | 0 comments

Rana temporaria.

Picture taken June 24.

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A welcome return #frogs

Posted by Wildwood on Mar 29, 2021 in 2021, Amphibians, Common Frog, Fauna, March, Spring | 0 comments

It’s a couple of years since I’ve seen spawn of the Common frog, Rana temporaria, in its usual pool.

Picture taken March 26.

Frog: Woodpile life (1/5) #wildlife

Posted by Wildwood on Jun 1, 2017 in 2017, Amphibians, Common Frog, May, Spring | 0 comments

Rana temporaria was among the creatures disturbed when we shifted a woodpile by hand. (more…)

Frog #amphibians

Posted by Wildwood on Apr 4, 2017 in 2017, Amphibians, Common Frog, Fauna, March, Spring | 0 comments

Rana temporaria. (more…)

Frog legs it #wildlife

Posted by Wildwood on Nov 25, 2016 in 2016, Amphibians, Autumn, Common Frog, Fauna, November | 0 comments

This small Rana temporaria leapt into cover. (more…)

Stalked #frogs #insects

Posted by Wildwood on Aug 8, 2016 in 2016, Amphibians, Common Frog, Fly, Insects, July, Phaonia pallida, Provisional identification, Summer | 0 comments

A tiny frog, Rana temporaria, which could have fitted on a 50p coin, apparently eyeing a fly, possibly Phaonia pallida. (more…)

‘But best of all was the warm thick slobber of frogspawn that grew like clotted water’ #wildlife

Posted by Wildwood on Apr 12, 2016 in 2016, Amphibians, April, Common Frog, Fauna, Spring | 0 comments

From Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney (more…)

Better late than never

Posted by Wildwood on Apr 11, 2015 in 2015, Amphibians, April, Common Frog, Pond Skater, Provisional identification, Spring | 0 comments

Around a month later than last year, the reappearance of clumps of frog spawn in an overflow pool by the pond. (more…)

‘Be kind and tender to the Frog’

Posted by Wildwood on Oct 2, 2014 in 2014, Amphibians, Autumn, Common Frog, September | 0 comments

From The Frog by Hilaire Belloc. (more…)