A revisit to the pond where frogspawn had been seen earlier. There was an even greater mass of eggs in the quiet bay of the pool.
The week and a half separating the visits (March 20 – 31) had been cool, so the eggs only showed very slight signs that the tadpoles were beginning to develop – a few embryonic tails just beginning to appear.
UPDATE: a week after these pictures were taken the tadpoles hatched. At first they were all crowded together (pics coming soon). Now the frogspawn is all gone and the tiny tadpoles dispersed. Occasionally they can be seen darting from one hiding place in the vegetation at the bottom of the pond to another.