Is this a baby frog or toad?

[Ringleywood]

Whilst we're on the subject of frogs and toads, can anyone help me with some info? I live next to a fishing-lodge and every summer we get tiny, tiny little froglets/toadlets hopping around our garden. They are a dull brown colour and only as big as your thumbnail. They come out more when it's been raining. Which are they please?

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by ron1863

It's a frog with a skin condition

What fracne

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Ringleywood

Whilst we're on the subject of frogs and toads, can anyone help me with some info? I live next to a fishing-lodge and every summer we get tiny, tiny little froglets/toadlets hopping around our garden. They are a dull brown colour and only as big as your thumbnail. They come out more when it's been raining. Which are they please?

They could be either, any chance of a pic..
Tiny toads tend to be black and crawl, they do in my garden anyway.

[coasty]

It is in my opinion a toad . However if you require absolute proof kiss it..... If it turns into a Prince then it was a frog,,,,

[gaviston]

It looks like a baby German Aphid. Very common and delicious spread thinly on a digestive!

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by Ringleywood

Whilst we're on the subject of frogs and toads, can anyone help me with some info? I live next to a fishing-lodge and every summer we get tiny, tiny little froglets/toadlets hopping around our garden. They are a dull brown colour and only as big as your thumbnail. They come out more when it's been raining. Which are they please?

They sound like toads, A) toads prefer large bodies of water which im sure will be around a fishing lodge and B) Frogs are not usually brown.

Regarding the colouration toads do vary alot as young and as adults in colour from reddy brown to greeny grey black. Frogs also show alot of variability so its nothing unusual. Also depending how moist the individuals skin is can change its colour alot.

[dampflippers]

This is a froglet



This is a toadlet

[coasty]

I havent been able to cut my front lawn for a while as with all the wet weather this years crop of froglets have taken up residence into the lawn instead of moving into the shrubs etc,,,,There seems to be a very high survival rate this year,,,,

[Bruce Williams]

Thanks for posting the froglet and toadlet pics dampflippers - very helpful.

Bruce

[Ringleywood]

We have lots of either toadlets or froglets, I'm not sure what they are, we get them every year. We live not far from a lodge also, but these little ones appear all over our front and back gardens. They are so tiny and dark brown, thumbnail size. What are they?