| frogs, toads and newts,
I have a large wildlife pond with some goldfish in, it has been established for about 15 years now and it regularly has more frogs than i can count in it, it also has a small colony of toads as i see them mating in there,
Also I have a smaller deep pool which has no fish, just lilies, and in the spring many toads spawn successfully in there, last year i counted 8 mating pairs, and in this small pool a few pairs of frogs also were seen mating and tadpoles of both hatched in huge amounts.
But i have never seen a newt of any description in either pond.
I have read that you are more likely to get common newts in a pond than you are to get toads, so if this is true where are the newts? do I have them and just haven't seen them? and why do I have so many toads if they are difficult to establish?
There are no nearby water resouces and the nearest pond/river is about a mile and a half away, so i don't know where they came from in the first place.
I would be interested to hear your ideas/opinions on this,,,,,  |