The worst frog mortality so far reported

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This idyllic looking dew pond in the Derbyshire Peak District has the dubious distinction of being the site of the single largest amphibian mortality reported to us so far in the Big Pond Thaw survey.

Sadly at least 150 frogs were found dead here.

Thanks to Roger for the information and the pictures – including the rather grisly image below.

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The worst frog mortality reported to us in the Big Pond Thaw survey

Are we over the cold weather yet?

The old pond on the 7th February 2009: clearly there's still time for more snowy weather

With their forecasting reputation in tatters in the sceptical press, should we believe the Met Office that there’s a ‘a low risk of much colder conditions with wintry showers’ developing up to the 9th February?

Clearly the answer has to be yes.

Last year it was the 7th February that I took the picture above.

So it’s quite possible that we could get another spell of the icy stuff even here in southern England.

But I notice that Nature’s Calendar already has the first frog spawn records! Check it out here.

Of course, there’s nothing at all unsual about that.