Category: Amphibia

The first common toad of the year, all by himself. Won’t be long before his friends arrive.

The first sighting of mating frogs: this pair of common frogs appeared this evening and are enjoying themselves in the rain. There are likely to be many more appearing over the next few days. Spring can’t be far away!

With few predators (no fish in the lake) the taddies have taken over. We might have a bit of a problem if they all turn into frogs and toads!

The frogs and toads have been busy as you can see: clump of frogspawn on the right, strings of toadspawn on the left.

Lots of frogspawn in the lake, and now happy toads all over the place too.