Woodland Trust

Nature's CalendarNature Detectives

Get out into the woods this weekend - see what signs of spring you can spot!

Frogs get mateyWTPL/Christine Martin

Thanks to the many thousands of sightings sent in by volunteer recorders our scientists are able to monitor the effects that the changing climate has on frogs.

They have found that spawning is now 10 days earlier, on average, than in the middle of the 20th century.....
 

Calling all frog lovers

View our live frogspawn map to see if frogs are spawning in your area! 

Since the snow melted, one nature's calendar recorder spotted these frogs making up for lost time this spring:

 

You can help by looking out for and recording early sightings of frogspawn.

 

Did you know?

Very mild temperatures in early 2008 resulted in a flood of frogspawn records, most of which were received online on February 14th, St Valentine's Day!