The creatures are ready for spring
It's really cold still - the weather's been grim for weeks. I've managed one day of gardening when it wasn't quite as bitter and wasn't snowing/raining. Despite my impression that it's very much still winter, the creatures out there have been carrying on as they normally do around now, and preparing for spring.
The birds are singing from rooftops and treetops, and a particularly enthusiastic blackbird has woken up this household and probably the whole street several times recently, with early-morning singing. Not just singing, but that rather clattering alarm-like call.
Last week, one dark evening while I was walking down our street I found a frog in the middle of the pavement, just after we'd had rain. The frog was pointing in the direction of our house. This may just have been coincidence, but the following evening, when the front door had been left open temporarily, a frog was discovered on the doormat in our hallway. This was carefully placed in the back garden, where we assumed it was heading, towards the pond.
I assume that any frogs in search of the pond will want to take the quickest route, and this is, as the crow flies (or the frog hops), straight through our house, down the hallway. Hence the visitor, I guess.
Later, with a torch, I checked the pond and found a mating pair joined together at the water's edge.
posted by Lisa, www.turning-earth.co.uk @ 7:22 PM 0 comments
