Toads calling

Kayleigh · #1 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 11:50 PM

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

Cotham Marble · #2 (**permalink**) 17-10-2009, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Kayleigh

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.

CM

Kayleigh · #3 (**permalink**) 17-10-2009, 08:54 PM

I missed your thread last Autumn I wonder if its a territory thing something to do with a place they have found to hibernate..

Meta menardi · #4 (**permalink**) 17-10-2009, 10:25 PM

Close pass of Paul McCartney?

Kayleigh · #5 (**permalink**) 17-10-2009, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by meta menardi

close pass of paul mccartney?

lol

RobinP · #6 (**permalink**) 17-10-2009, 10:33 PM

I heard yesterday on a quiz program that Natterjack Toads can be heard by others several kilometres away, hence their name.

Just thought I'd throw that in...

Jason Claxton · #7 (**permalink**) 18-10-2009, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Meta menardi

Close pass of Paul McCartney?

,We all stand together.

toadpole · #8 (**permalink**) 31-10-2009, 07:28 PM

I thought i was going mad

and my daughter said i must of been dreaming

.....as for the last 3 weeks i have been hearing frogs calling in my garden ...it has allways been very late at night when i am in bed around 12-1am ....it is away from the pond and seems to be coming from the patio area and when i have had a good old nose the next day ...nothing ...and there is not anywhere around there for them to tuck themselves away for winter ...and no sign of them in or around my pond

i did go outside late last night with my torch to see if i could see any activity....and saw just one very thin little frog

my 2 toads are underneath the rabbit house where they usually team up ready for winter and no sign of them out and about either (it was raining and as they showed video footage of active and feeding toads on Autumnwatch ) so i thought mine might be out )but nothing lazy little devils ....i do miss all the springtime night action ....sadly onlysaw a few slugs and snails out they never seem to dissapoint me !!!!!!

tom00_uk · #9 (**permalink**) 01-11-2009, 04:55 PM

just back from La Brenne, frogs and toads all over the place happy as larry calling

even on frosty mornings it only took a few moments to find tree frogs

Meta menardi · #10 (**permalink**) 02-11-2009, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by tom00_uk

just back from La Brenne, frogs and toads all over the place happy as larry calling

even on frosty mornings it only took a few moments to find tree frogs

It is ages since I was there, but what a fabulous place out of the holiday season.