Over the last week we've had an amazing 45mm of rain, which has put some more water into the dam and renewed calling from the frogs there. Spotted marsh frog calls mainly, but I think I hear the odd spadefoot as well.

The pond frogs have faith in the season and have spawned again - this their sixth batch of eggs for 2009. These ones (photo below) seem smaller than the others I've seen - not sure why that is. 

The tadpoles on the back verandah have been growing and the rain seemed like an ideal opportunity to release some back into the dam. I did this on Saturday afternoon (photos below). There seem to be 39 of them in the bowl that we put back in. For a little while they were stunned, perhaps because the water was a bit colder than what they came out of, but soon they started nibbling on the bottom and getting back into the swing of tadpole life. I hope that some of them survive to make froglets. They are already getting back legs and will probably enjoy the dam environment better than the glyphosate containers (despite the carefully constructed shelves for them to rest on).