Have to be very careful now though when walking near the pond as they are popping up everywhere. They are at various stages of development, some with tails, some without but they all have the most delicious copper glint to them.
I do think some of them are a little ambitious though ... this little fella looks like he would be better off in the pond a bit longer.
I've still got loads of tadpoles swimming around that don't even look as if they are thinking about developing legs yet.
Here's one of the adults that was very happy under the alpine strawberries until I accidentally disturbed him
The look so smooth from the front, but when you see them from the back they look quite warty and toady, but he's definitely a froggie:
Fantastic photos, I have put an old paddling pool in the corner of my plot and put my tadpoles into it about three weeks ago hopefully they are all doing well as haven't seen any frogs yet - I did find a slow worm in the strwberries yesterday !
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