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the breeding season, to lay their spawn. The rest of the time they are terrestrial animals, completely at home in the shrubbery, log pile or herbaceous border. Their very name — amphibian — is a reflection of this, deriving from the Greek amphi (both, or both

'.I dug my mum her first pond 10 years ago, and although several frogs are often found sheltering in the water, and it's home to a gregarious family of smooth newts, we've never seen evidence of any breeding.The pond (now known as the 'deep pond') is too