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Tadpole with perfectly formed legs and feet. (30 May 2020)

And all of a sudden, the day, she came.  And then the tadpoles had legs.

Perfectly formed but infinitely tiny back legs.

These ones will be toads or frogs – we hear that on newts it is the front legs that develop first…

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Larger perspective in a relatively tiny space: back legs on tadpole. (30 May 2020)

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The tadpoles like my newly installed underwater pebble ‘beach’ (30 May 2020).  Today I added three more pebbles.  And so it goes…

Go tadpoles go!  (Ribbit)

About smallPaws

A tumbleweed from Canada who's been living in London for twenty or so years.
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