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Kate B

Frogs !

The frogs in my neighborhood have been extremely noisy for weeks now - visitors have commented on the racket!  Last night we saw a very small frog laden with eggs on her back in the front garden.  I thought frogspawn produced new frogs not eggs on a garden path.  there is no pond close by - is this unusual?

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Matt B
Weird, there's also a whole gang of them in my garden in Jeypore rd. I think perhaps they are toads though. Again no pond here. I guess they like the damp grass
Lee-Ann C
That sounds like a midwife toad. And it's the male that carries the eggs. For more info see the following web site http://www.uksafari.com/midwifetoads.htm
It's great that we've got so much wildlife in our back gardens.
Kate B
Thank you very much for the link and the information.  My frog is almost certainly what you suggest - a midwife toad.
Vicky K
If you are the same Kate having trouble with her beans, guess what frogs eat?  SLUGS!
Kate B
Crazy isn't it?  I creep out at dusk and see the snails (not slugs) crawling up the bean poles in the back garden while in the front the frogs, now probably toads, are making a racket fit to wake the dead! 
Vicky K
Frogs eat slugs and snails.  Grab some from your front garden and create  a nice place for them to live in your back garden and job done!  Frogs need water to survive.
Sylvia
Please - anybody have frogs that I could come and collect for my pond?
Kate B
You would be very welcome to mine but they're not always in evidence.  Despite the damp I didn't see any last night.  If you want to send me p.m. with your phone number I could ring when they're around.
caroline w
It would be good to spread the toads around.  They are not so bouncy as frogs but they are a bit rarer.
james d
Befor you all start swapping toads and frogs ,please remember they will always try to return to where they were spawned next year to spawn themselves ,at which time many will be killed crossing roads etc. - So what ,I need them now ,I hear you say, well ,the survival rate to reproductive age is, I seem to remember, 5  per  1000 . So look after the little fellas now for future satisfaction - for you and them!
Matt B
That makes sense. Apparently there used to be a pond in the garden here... Not any more, I'm afraid I've 'lawned' it. Poor little critters!
caroline w
But James D if you brought in a couple or four during the spawing season, then that year's young will remain and will start a new breeding colony.  The adults might try to return to their original pond but a new colony will have been created.  From the point of view of any species, that is a plus.
james d
Caroline,I'm no expert naturalist,and certainly can't say your suggestion wouldn't work.but now is not the spawning season so best wait till then . Depending on the weather spawning seems to start in the new year, after they come out of hibernation.They then tend to hang around the pool, at least till hatching. Matt a bucket is all they need to breed in , just remember the froglets need to get in and out,while losing their tails.

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