#1F NoCMoC – Visitor Centre - Common Frog Traditional Cache

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Kitty!!: After almost 10 years it is time for this series to go.

1020 different Geocachers have logged one or more finds of my caches in Hanningfield. As most Geocachers visit in pairs or as a family this probably represents 2 or 3 thousand Geocachers! A total of 4,945 finds were logged. Favourite points were not introduced until long after the trail was set and, as the trail was intended to be a family orientated starter trail and attracted non-premium cachers who could not award points. On this basis I am very proud to have received 291 points.

Thank you to the 658 finders of this cache and the 20 who awarded it a favourite point.

Thank you to The Warden, Bill, and his team at Hanningfield for accommodating my caches. It was a privilege to be able to place them on the Reserve.

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Hidden : 11/19/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Full details of the NoCMoC trail of caches, hints and a map can be found here. Please note that to access these Visitor Centre Caches you MUST go through either the Visitor Centre or Fishing Lodge at the bottom of Gifford Lane. See waypoints at GC41JAQ #1A wood Ants. Note the restricted opening times.


Common Frog (Rana temporari)
Frogs are often found close to fresh water in habitats that remain damp throughout the summer. Outside of the breeding season they can roam up to 500 metres from a breeding pond.

Adults can grow to 9cm (nose to tail). They have a smooth moist skin which is generally a shade or olive-green or brown, with a dark patch (or 'mask') behind the eyes. Frogs often have bands of darker striping on the back legs and irregular dark markings on the back. Colouration is extremely variable: yellow, pink, red, orange and black.

Frogs spawn in early spring. Tadpoles generally take up to sixteen weeks to grow back legs, then front legs before they metamorphose into tiny froglets. 'Mature' tadpoles are faintly speckled with a gold/brown colouration which distinguishes them from the black tadpoles of the common toad. Tadpoles are eaten by fish, beetles, dragonfly larvae and birds. Froglets leave the water in summer - between June and September.

Common frogs feed on a variety of invertebrate prey, slugs and snails particularly. Adult frogs have many predators including storks, birds of prey,crows, gulls, ducks, terns, herons, pine martens, stoats, weasels, polecats, badgers, otters and snakes.

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