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    Posted: 30 Nov 2006 at 4:01am
This from South Wales Echo (28th Nov)

"WITH reference to recent readers' letters concerning the late appearance of butterflies in their gardens (Echo), well I think I can beat that.

While clearing some pond weed from my garden pond, I was astonished to find several large tadpoles happily still swimming around in the pond (this was on Monday, November 20).

Have any other readers come across this in their ponds?
C Hayes, Lavriston Park, Caerau, Cardiff"
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The tadpoles are overwintering as they havent metamorphosed in time - it is possible that they haven't do so for a variety of reasons and so may actually change into frogs next year....

Jon

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