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Map showing where you found frogspawn in February 2021 

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Map showing where you found frogspawn in February 2021 

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Thankyou all so much for taking part - whether you found loads, some or none, it all matters; it all improves our understanding>

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frog survey intro answers and comments (1)

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survey and lovely clear photo 🐸💚🙏

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...spotted the same frogspawn as Emma, unexpectedly by the roadside at Loch Hyne. And there is more of it now!

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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...in Rathmore, took their dad out three times and searched throughout their permitted 3k, but found no frogspawn. This also is an important part of our survey. 🐸🔎💚🙏

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survey 2nd Feb: well done and thankyou 🐸💚🙏

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IN THE ACTIVITES PADLET - click on the link below

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Ben & Luka's survey, 15th Feb, photos and a really useful map with the survey  🐸💚💚🙏

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Ben & Luka's survey, 15th Feb, photos and a really useful map with the survey  🐸💚💚🙏

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Frogs laying in O’Flynns

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Rebecca's survey

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Anna & Juliette Field having a good close up look before carefully putting back

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Anna & Juliette Field having a good close up look before carefully putting back

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14th Feb, near Rolfs

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14th Feb good close up photo! 🐸💚🙏

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...and follow this link to read more about the O'Flynn frogs!

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A frog takeover has occurred in a back garden pond in West Cork.

A video showing thousands of frogs in a pond was posted by popular Baltimore art gallery, The Yellow Door, run by the O'Flynn family.

However, this is not a strange thing to happen to the O'Flynn's, as it seems to be a yearly occurrence.

Richard O'Flynn, says: "The frogs come every year but this year the numbers are bigger than ever."

The O'Flynn's pond in Baltimore is home to almost 5,000 frogs. Photo: Richard O'Flynn

Mr O'Flynn says the adult frogs come for a week to look for mates: "They start calling out with their croaks looking for mates and the girls come running! The pond is filled with millions of spawn within the week, as it's about 40ft by 60ft, so not small.

"This year so far there are about 4,000-5,000 adult frogs."

Typically, the frogs begin to arrive at the O'Flynn's in February, but it's unusual for them to have arrived on St Bridget's Day: "About 20 years ago when I built the pond while building the house was the first year I got spawn from a tiny natural pond in the next field and put it in ours to see if they would take."

"This month also marks the arrival of extra ducks and heron which will pick off as many frogs as they can. But that's nature I guess!"

The frogs will head off to find new ponds of their own, but it won't be long until they baby frogs have spawned and begin to wreak havoc for the O'Flynn's again: "Normally at the start of summer, the baby frogs start coming out of the pond and heading off. This is when we have to leave the garden go wild for a few weeks or if I went in there with the lawnmower it would be a bloody carnage! They are just everywhere, but again only for a few weeks."

Holly (11), Maya (7), Izzy (10) swimming in Lough Hyne with their mum. Holly is known in her school to be quite the "Frog Queen." Photo: Richard O'Flynn

Richard isn't the only frog expert in the family. He says his daughter Holly (11) has taken the title of "Frog Queen" in school: "Every year we send a small fish tank of spawn into Rath National school where we leave it till they become frogs so that the local kids can see.

"The kids change the water and feed the spawn every few days, and when they are matured frogs they are brought back to the pond to be set free."

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Watch: West Cork village faces frog invasion

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A frog takeover has occurred in a back garden pond in West Cork. A video showing thousands of frogs in a pond was posted by popular Baltimore art gallery, The Yellow Door, run by the O'Flynn family. However, this is not a strange thing to happen to the O'Flynn's, as it seems to be a yearly occurrence.

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4th Feb - direct upload, thankyou! 🐸💚🙏

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These three clumps near Loch Hyne are well camouflaged - but Ellen spotted them. Well done! 🐸💚🙏

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also didn't find where they might have expected to - all useful citizen science🐸🔎💚🙏

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Not finding something where you might expect to can be as useful as finding it when thinking about biodiversity 🐸🔎💚🙏

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and great photos to the left 🐸💚💚🙏

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great Inishbeg froggy photos from the Murphys 

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great Inishbeg froggy photos from the Murphys 

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9th Feb - love the eerie underwater frog! 🐸💚💚🙏

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9th Feb survey with great photos: 4 very happy frog hunters! 🐸💚💚🙏

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8th Feb - love the frog close-up! 🐸💚💚🙏

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Pics of Frog Spawn

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Gráinne McCarthy frogspawn survey 7th Feb

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Gráinne McCarthy frogspawn survey 7th Feb

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Frogs at Ballinard Ring Fort & photos 🐸💚💚🙏

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Oran and Ella Keane frog spawn photos

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Oran and Ella Keane frog spawn photos

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7th Feb with great pictures 🐸💚💚🙏

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Survey 2

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Survey 1

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more of Mary's photos

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4th Feb and lots of pictures 🐸💚💚🙏

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4th Feb 🐸💚🙏

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Maeve's frogspawn photos

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3rd Feb 🐸💚💚🙏

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Alex and Louie photo

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3rd Feb 🐸💚💚🙏

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Alex and Louie video - lots of frogs and masses of frogspawn

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maxs frog spawn photo

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max frog spawn location

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3rd Feb uploaded directly with great map and photo - thankyou! 3rd Feb 🐸💚💚🙏

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First survey in already! Well done Carla!

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First survey in already! Well done Carla!

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2nd Feb 🐸💚🙏

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that's a 30cm ruler in the foreground - that's a lot of frogspawn!!

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pdf version for easy download or to read on your phone...