Frogspawn disappearing from pond

[wee quinnie]

Frogspawned appeared in my pond towards the end of Feb., which I was delighted by, but it has now completely disappeared, and there appear to be no juvenile tadpoles/frogs either. I noted on one of the other threads, Sue and another poster mentioned that theirs had gone as well.

Has anyone else had this happen this year? Do you think this is down to the fluctuations in weather (the spawn did seem very early), or do you think there are other reasons? Birds eating it? Pond pH not right? Too much pond weed? I still have my adult frogs though, thank goodness.

[El Pibe]

Basically everything eats them, birds, fish and each other.

If you've a few fish in a small pond they're basically doomed.

Mind you back a the family pile this weekend ironically the well fed fish got gobble up by a passing heron.

altoghter now "It's the ciiircle of liiiifee....."

A second crop of spawn is faring better in the newly fishless pond.

[Marmora Man]

Herons - we've seen our pond lose all its fish (10 of them) and almost all its frogspawn to a heron that discovered the pond last year. 6 years of no heron and now it regards our garden as its larder. Nothing seems to stop him - wires, mock herons, bells - we've tried them all.

[wee quinnie]

We don't have fish. I haven't seen any herons - but I must keep an eye out.

No problems at all in previous years.

[dbboy]

I saw a heron last week being chased by two other birds down Westwood Park.

[ibilly99]

Heron gang activity.

[Salsaboy]

Clowns. It's the warm weather.