It was quite a surprise!

Frog spawn has mysteriously appeared every year since work finished on the Glen Esk Pocket Park in the Calderwood Area of East Kilbride.
There were no sightings of frogs initially.
Then, last year, a couple of posts appeared on social media highlighting the rescue of a frog on a road or a path.
Meanwhile, those interested monitored the progress as the tadpoles appeared.
However, nobody saw the tadpoles develop into frogs, and last year, there was concern that as summer approached, the ponds seemed to dry out.
The fear was that the tadpoles had not survived.
It could only be a matter of time before there would be no frogs.
Well, thankfully not.
This year, the frogs spent a few days in the ponds, allowing people of all ages to see and photograph them.

There were not just a few frogs, there were loads.

Quite how they managed to survive is a bit of a mystery.

Also, why this year they have decided to hang about letting the local community see and photograph them for a few days when in previous years they appeared to be quite secretive is also a bit of a mystery.

I am glad they did as a lot of people particularly children got a lot of pleasure from seeing them.

So fingers crossed, the ponds don’t dry out and we see lots of froglets.