(1hr) Friday 8 March 2024 - Tracks and frogspawn

While on the forest bathing walk today, I noted several interesting tracks in the mud bordering the path we walked along, so during lunch I took myself off to photograph them for research later. Drew identified the deer tracks as roe deer (you can tell because the hoofs form a heart-shaped mark), and there were also marks of some creature with long sharp claws, most likely a squirrel or a rat-like animal (both plausible). The other prints I found were sadly attributable to the many dogwalkers that use Beechbrae, despite Google's suggestion that they might be puma or tiger tracks! Coming back on the track past the ponds, I stopped to admire the vast amount of frogspawn covering the surface of the smaller pond, and a ball of spawn in the bigger pond. Sammy shared a video of the frogs' activity on 29th February, and this is the result.