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10-04-2010, 10:11 PM
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| | | Hundreds of frogs in Priddy pool
Today we went for a walk round Priddy Pools in the Mendips. Both pools are great for dragon and damselflies in the summer and I have seen frogs and toads there before and have seen the top pond full to bursting with tiny frogs and tadpoles before now. We took a walk to the top pond to see if we could spot any frogspawn or tadpoles.... Today there was an amazing number of adult frogs - hundreds, if not thousands! They could be seen on the surface and sitting under the water - a vast variety of colours too! There were quite a few mating clusters, most seemed to contain a dead female though although I did spot a couple of pairs too... This struck me as a bit odd as I thought most frogs would have mated and spawned by now? Certainly the ones in my pond have (I'm in Bristol). Lots of dead frogs in and around the pool too. BUT I didn't spot any frogspawn at all - saw some toad spawn and possibly some newt spawn but no frogspawn - is this odd? |
11-04-2010, 10:36 AM
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| | | Re: Hundreds of frogs in Priddy pool
and here are a couple of pics....   |
11-04-2010, 11:33 AM
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| | | Re: Hundreds of frogs in Priddy pool
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Originally Posted by zail  and here are a couple of pics.... | Great pictures but surely those are toads ? Or has my eyesight really deteriorated that much ?!
Certainly this end of mating is only a couple of weeks later than usual for toads at Priddy, about in line with everything else this year. Spring on the top of the Mendips does tend to be bit later than the surrounding lowland, and urban Bristol maybe has a degree or so higher temperatures again which would advance mating in some species.
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11-04-2010, 04:27 PM
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| |  Re: Hundreds of frogs in Priddy pool
Agree, Common Toads. |
11-04-2010, 08:25 PM
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| | | Re: Hundreds of frogs in Priddy pool
Wow! Well, hundreds of toads then! I thought the first one I saw was a toad but then, as there were so many, assumed they were frogs... That would account for why I saw toadspawn not frogspawn!
CM - is it likely then that the huge amounts of tadpoles I've seen up at the pool before (it was the one back from the road not waldegrave pond) were toadpoles? I have seen toadlets up there but also froglets.
Thanks for the ID people - I'm even more pleased to have seen hundreds of toads than I was when I thought I had seen hundreds of frogs  | | |
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