hi all,
after a nightmare march/april of toad road crossings to the local ponds, im now concerned about it happening all over again right now.
the background to this saga is in my older thread, please have a look cos it may help you deduce what is happening now ---
I need help to stop mass toad deaths, asap please
so my dilema is this, why are toads (small males and larger females) bieng killed on the same road mentioned in the thread above ?
where are they going ? are they going back to areas they initially came from in march ? surely they are not going back to those areas to hibernate, its summer ?
its harder for me now to rescue them off the busy road cos i dont know where they are going, and if i put em back in the ponds area maybe im just setting them back a couple of hours and therebye exposing them to heavier traffic later ?
many tadpoles from breeding this year are still not fully formed toads yet, so it can not be this years generation dispersing already?, and even if it is, how come they are heading in the same direction across that busy blasted road again ?
i did not notice this after last years march slaughter, im stumped.
i dearly wish copeland council would put up toad crossing signs to slow drivers down to give the toads a chance.
last night at 3am i watched a sod in a white car zoom down this road (mirehouse road) at approx 70mph, its a damn 30mph zone !. its outragoeus.
i need help to get copeland council (links in above thread) to stop the slaughter.
i came out at 2am last night and saw a dozen dead toads in a 30 metre stretch of mirehouse road, near the ponds area.they are heading away from the ponds to somewhere, i think.
i saw 3 live ones grouped together at the pond entrance, and when they saw me get close they hid from sight, good job really cos i dont know what to do with em cos i dont know where they want to be.
i hung around for an hour but did not see them move far or get run over.i think they were spooked and decided to hide ?
in that time many cars came by, including the 70mph idiot.
maybe they attempted the crossing later or maybe they went into the ponds area, i just dont know.
any help to explain what they are doing is much appreciated.