Thursday 25 May 2017

A New Garden Youngster

As I was clearing out some of the long grass next to the garden pond I spotted something brown move:

young toad

Usually I disturb frogs but this time it was a pleasant surprise to see it was a young toad:

young toad

This is the first young one I have seen.  My guess would be it is about 2 years old.
I have never spotted any toad spawn in the pond but they could well have joined the frogs.

2 comments:

  1. Great sighting. We have loads of frogs and common newts in the garden but sadly I haven't seen a toad for years.

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    1. Robin: It was great to think they, as well as the frogs, could be breeding in the pond. A few days ago I found a couple of really tiny froglets which I think are this year's brood.

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