frog spawn

During the rain 2 nights ago the frogs were making a real racket.

Frog pond

Frog  spawn

The next day there was 4 large frothy collections  on the edge of our frog pond.  I am reasonably sure it is frog spawn rather than cane toad as the latter tends to lay it's eggs in long strings whereas these were more of a clump. During summer here I collect cane toads at night, using a torch, and dispatch them -  they go into the veggie garden as fertiliser. We seem to have several varieties of frogs here such as green tree frogs, striped marsh frogs and others.  With a semi-permanent pond ( it does dry out in a long dry stretch) hopefully it will help these native frogs thrive