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Reply	tbrucenyc says: Needs a photo.......  (no votes) Tags: notfrogspawn.
	posted on 2011-03-07 17:57:06 | Report abuse Reply Milon says: Okay, I thought I'd posted a photo. Apologies. Since then the thing has become academic, because I since found another lot of jelly with two eggs in it! My theory is that a predator (probably a fox) killed the female frog (after bringing to a dry piece of ground) and the spawn was actually left as an inedible portion of said frog. I guess the reason I haven't seen eggs before is that the 'jelly' starts out eggless in early spring?  (no votes) Tags: notfrogspawn, frogspawnafterall. posted on 2011-03-15 13:48:57 | Report abuse

Reply	jeem says: i believe it may be the miscarriage of the farm animals,  worked in farm many a year ago and saw similar in cow sheds.  the farmer fellow told me they were cow miscarriages  (no votes) Tags: notfrogspawn.
	posted on 2011-04-12 03:10:56 | Report abuse

Reply	Mavourneen says: It might be one or other slime mould ... the fruiting bodies ... Myxomycetae to be technical. They used to be classified as fungi but that's quite incorrect ... they are a separate group or (more likely) several unrelated groups. They live most of the time as separate amoeba-like cells, engulfing microorganisms in soil, leaf litter, rotting wood, etc, till some stimulus causes them to "get together" and form the masses we see. Check out Google Images and see if any resemble what you saw.  (no votes) Tags: notfrogspawn, slimemoulds, myxomycetae, amoeba.
	posted on 2011-05-02 11:44:54 | Report abuse