Toadfest!

[thebeard]

Went volunteering last week, and visited a pond at one of the trusts woodland reserves, and it was brimming with mating toads, the sound was incredible, i likened it to a distant flock of jackdaws. I went back the next day to take some photos and had a lovely warm evening by the pool!

some of the photos are on my blog, i just thought i'd share it here

The Beardy Birder: Toads!

cheers
tom

[Lemars]

Sumos from the murky depths !!!

[Littlesparrow]

Something about the look on the faces of the wrestling toads made me laugh, thanks for sharing.

[toadpole]

Absolutely wonderful pics....if only they were in MY pond Marion

[toadpole]

has anybody had Toads spawn in their ponds this year as there does not seem to be a thread about any ???? the 1 female and 3 males that i found outside my garden fence ,did nothing and have left the pond now i think ...can anybody who has garden ponds that have seen or had toads spawn possibly report it on here with dates if possible ...many many thanks ....if i have not got any i would love to hear other peoples little stories and possibly see their pics ....thanks again Marion

[GFM]

One pair of mating toads in my pond(Leeds area) this afternoon, just been out as dark falls and now a fair few strings of spawn.

[venusinflares]

I noticed toad spawn in our garden pond on Friday. We also have frog spawn.

We are in the Leeds area too.

[toadpole]

OH you lucky lucky things a bit late tho this year ......but how wonderful Marion PS many many thanks for reporting all this info to me ..... I still like to hear about other peoples toad news ..the dates etc as i really thought spawning would be well and truly over by now so at least i know that they still can spawn in april Marion

[GFM]

Up here, frogspawn is usally in the first 2 weeks of March and toad spawn the last week in March first week in April

[venusinflares]

Ours has been exactly that too GFM - the frog spawn appeared a good couple of weeks before the toad spawn.

On the day the frog spawn appeared there were at least 10 frogs in the pond. The frog spawn has now disappeared so I'm assuming the tadpoles must have hatched.

It's wonderful - this time last year we were living in a flat with no garden, now we've got a garden complete with pond and it's teeming with wildlife!