frogs and frogspawn in a tree ????

[daveindales]

Todays job was to crown raise and thin a horse chestnut and a sycamore. In the garden was a pond. About 40ft up the sycamore I found a dead Frog. On the top side of one of the Horse chestnut limbs I thought I saw some interesting fruit bodies. However, upon a closer look they turned out to be frogspawn. Have never seen this before. Has anyone else seen it.

[Stephen Blair]

herons mate

[daveindales]

How does This explain the frogspawn on stuck to the top of the branch? It was not just the odd bit, but a whole clump.

[treemeup]

I've found frogspawn in an ash fork before, i put it down to a bird saving it for later. if it was spawned there i wouldnt like to bump into the frog on a dark night as it was about 20ft up!!

[Hogs Breath]

Are you sure it was not a rare barking tree frog!?

Hope you left some habitat!

[Ben Ballard]

Todays job was to crown raise and thin a horse chestnut and a sycamore. In the garden was a pond. About 40ft up the sycamore I found a dead Frog. On the top side of one of the Horse chestnut limbs I thought I saw some interesting fruit bodies. However, upon a closer look they turned out to be frogspawn. Have never seen this before. Has anyone else seen it.

 

thats cool mate never seen that before, but heard that atype of salamander live up in some of the giant redwoods in america and never leave the trees got all they need to live up there:001_smile:

[Jon Lad]

I've found worms living in forks and cavities in trees before and wondered how they got up there, but never frogspawn.

[Stephen Blair]

maybe pregnant frog was dropped there by a heron or big birdy, and it laid all its eggs

[armchairarborist]

where i grew up it was a local kids pastime wanging frogspawn at each other, frogs too, never did it myself, slimy an all that.. it wasn't in almondbury was it?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Crows, magpies, herons, they will all take frogs, a heron tends to swallow in one hit, crows etc most likely have dropped your sample when trying to fly off and getting harrassed in flight. Common occurance at this time of year.

 

Youll find small stones in trees too, birds use these as anvils to smash up snails for consumption.