December Winner: Markulous and Year Winner: Wild Canon

Congratulations to Markulous on winning the final competition of 2009 and Wild Canon on winning the overall competition for the year!

The top 3 members this year were:

1st - Wild Canon (80 votes)
2nd - Markulous (40 votes)
3rd - Keith (33 votes)

Congratuations to all three of you and also a big thanks to everyone who entered this year. If you'd like to know your score then please contact Jamie.

As you know, this was Jamie's last month running the competition so a huge thank you to him from everyone at the forum. He's run the competition brilliantly and I'm sure you'll agree it's been a big success.

There will be no January competition this year but hopefully we should have something sorted for February.

Thanks and happy new year!



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I am posting this on here as i know a few members live close to Carsington Water.
A very sad sight today ,a wildlife pond at Carsington that we pass on the way to the bird hide had quite a number of dead frogs in it,we can only think they had frozen to death in the recent cold weather ,i hope this isn't a thing we are going to find in other places .


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Celtic Sparrow Wrote:
I am posting this on here as i know a few members live close to Carsington Water.
A very sad sight today ,a wildlife pond at Carsington that we pass on the way to the bird hide had quite a number of dead frogs in it,we can only think they had frozen to death in the recent cold weather ,i hope this isn't a thing we are going to find in other places .

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Celtic Sparrow Wrote:
I am posting this on here as i know a few members live close to Carsington Water.
A very sad sight today ,a wildlife pond at Carsington that we pass on the way to the bird hide had quite a number of dead frogs in it,we can only think they had frozen to death in the recent cold weather ,i hope this isn't a thing we are going to find in other places .


I live in Upton, Wirral. Last year I installed a wildlife pond. This week I found 4 dead frogs in it. Last year, in a smaller pond I was cleaning in early spring, I found a live frog hibernating. Yet this pond had also frozen over. I wonder what is different this year?

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i have discovered around a dozen dead frogs in the garden pond, its all vey sad indeed, think it could be the bad weather and constant freezing temps during late december thru to mid jan

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I went walking on Harting Down last weekend and on passing what it is marked as a "Dew Pond " on my map I decided to go and take a look for any signs of life - instead I was confronted with the sight of many many dead frogs Icon_sad

I can only imagine that as Harting Down is quite high (for the region) and it was a dew pond - it just froze solid so no luck to anything living therein Icon_sad

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I hope the water vole survived!

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Oh dear, I best go and check my pond sometime soon. Thing is, I leave the house in darkness and return in darkness. I won't be able to check untill Sunday. Best not tell my missus if I find any or she'll throw a mary fit - she loves her frogs.

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