Thread: Toads calling
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Old 17-10-2009, 07:36 PM
Cotham Marble Cotham Marble is offline
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Re: Toads calling

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Originally Posted by Kayleigh View Post
I have just been out in the garden and three different areas of my garden have frogs or toads croaking, calling..
I thought this was a mating thing the males calling to let other males know its their territory and to let the females know there is male waiting and is ready for mating..
I thought they only did this in spring..
Is this normal for this time of year.
What's going on
I commented last Autumn in a WAB post, on this behaviour by frogs, - no one came up with a definitive explanation. Anyway I've noticed the Autumn croak over a number of years, though the intensity of the calling is nothing like the Spring mating serenades. The different locations also seems to be a feature - the mating seranades always seem come from the mating pond or its margins rather than dispersed around the garden.

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