The first frogspawn sightings for the year have been recorded in the UK, indicating a potentially earlier spring due to climate change. The initial sighting was reported in a garden pond in the Isles of Scilly on December 21, 2024, followed by sightings in Cornwall and Devon. The Freshwater Habitats Trust, which runs the PondNet Spawn Survey, emphasizes the importance of these early records for monitoring amphibian breeding patterns and informing conservation efforts.
The first early sighting of frogspawn for a national survey was recorded in a garden pond in the Isles of Scilly, a wildlife trust has said.
The Freshwater Habitats Trust said the early record on 21 December 2024, submitted by Carole Cilia for the PondNet Spawn Survey, was soon followed by sightings in Cornwall and Devon. Frogspawn are jelly-like frog eggs that appear at the edges of ponds and streams, and normally it is a sign spring has arrived, according to theAn ecologist from Cornwall who participated in the survey said the findings "provide useful data on how nature is responding to climate change".The Freshwater Habitats Trust runs the UK survey to monitor amphibian breeding patterns and it said the data was "invaluable" for conservation efforts.
Carole Cilia, who recorded the first sighting, said: "We now have over 10 batches of spawn in our pond and at the weekend I saw two batches of spawn in a nearby wildlife pond.The early record from the Isles of Scilly was followed by another two sightings in Cornwall, one in a pond near Jacobstow on 28 December, and another in a ditch in the Camel Valley on 5 January, as well as a sighting on 1 January in Bideford, Devon.
"Small water bodies are often undervalued and neglected, but these early sightings in different habitats, from ponds to ditches, show how important they are for amphibians and other freshwater species," she said.and sharing photos on social media with the hashtag #spawnsurvey.
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