We have now frogspawn within the workplace pond. This morning (February twenty eighth, 2023), the primary batch of frogspawn was noticed within the Every part Dinosaur workplace pond. The eggs had most likely been laid only a few hours earlier within the very early morning. It had rained within the evening and there was in depth cloud cowl. The evening had been chilly with temperatures round 4 levels Celsius, what would usually be anticipated in our space on the finish of February.
That is the primary time that we’ve recorded frogspawn in February.
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Frogspawn in February
We have now not recorded frogspawn within the workplace pond being laid in February earlier than. Final yr, we recorded the primary frogspawn on March 2nd, this was the earliest we had recorded spawn, till a brand new document for early spawning was set this yr.
Over the previous couple of years, Every part Dinosaur staff members have famous the date of the primary frogspawn being laid. The pattern is for the frogs (Rana temporaria) to spawn earlier every year. Is that this brought on by the impression of world local weather change?
Earliest recorded spawning dates for Widespread frogs within the workplace pond:
- February twenty eighth 2023
- March 2nd 2022
- March eleventh 2021
- March twentieth 2020
- March twenty second 2019
- March seventeenth 2018
- March eleventh 2017
- March twentieth 2016
- March twelfth 2015
Different dates when we’ve recorded the primary frogspawn in a yr:
March nineteenth 2013, March eleventh 2012, March 18th 2011 and the primary ever frogspawn within the workplace pond was laid on March sixteenth 2008.