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    Posted: 20 Jul 2011 at 8:31pm
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I went to have a look over a localpond yesterday (tuesday). Look at these, if they don't get going soon they'll have to hibernate in there without ever leaving!
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But this one is just starting to finish off his jumpers
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They look like toad tadpoles to me??
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It ain’t time yet is it? No froglets or toadlets out yet up north.

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pretty sure they're toads - black and congregated together.

you're not much further north than me sue and i've had froglets for over a month.

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Frogs or toads whatever, like Tim a lot of local toads left the ponds mid June around me.
 
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PS, Sue, do you really need to have that banner about killing animals?
 
Can't we have another banner now please?
 
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Well the froglets ain’t left the golf course pond yet I don’t think. Last looked about two weeks ago and only some had tiny legs growing and I can tell when they’re leaving cos loads die on the concrete getting out, they get sunbaked to death. No froglets within my lawn yet, I snip the grass for my rodents every morning and if they’re there I’d have seen one by now. & as for the toadlets, outside work gets flooded with them, they come down in an army and we haven’t had the army yet. Either they’re late to march or a catastrophe has happened, I think they’re just later than southern toadlets though. Must say I did see one lone toadlet (or maybe perhaps a froglet) about a month ago not far from the canal, they must develop at different speeds in different areas. I should keep a diary of froglet and toadlet dispersing times for future reference.

 
 
Originally posted by Robert V Robert V wrote:

PS, Sue, do you really need to have that banner about killing animals?
 
Can't we have another banner now please?
 
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here in SW i live on the Severn floodplain. indeed my house and garden have flooded several times since the 1950s.
its flatter than a Which?'s page. sun all day on pond= frog metamorphs dispersed weeks ago.
9 mile away another pond on a NW? facing hillside slope of the Cotswold escarpment in a pond with high, solid fencing there remain unmetamorphosed frog taddies.

Sue where is that "better place"?
i wouldnt mind going elsewhere myself. have you got any tickets?
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Originally posted by Baby Sue Baby Sue wrote:

Well the froglets ain’t left the golf course pond yet I don’t think. Last looked about two weeks ago and only some had tiny legs growing and I can tell when they’re leaving cos loads die on the concrete getting out, they get sunbaked to death. No froglets within my lawn yet, I snip the grass for my rodents every morning and if they’re there I’d have seen one by now. & as for the toadlets, outside work gets flooded with them, they come down in an army and we haven’t had the army yet. Either they’re late to march or a catastrophe has happened, I think they’re just later than southern toadlets though. Must say I did see one lone toadlet (or maybe perhaps a froglet) about a month ago not far from the canal, they must develop at different speeds in different areas. I should keep a diary of froglet and toadlet dispersing times for future reference.

 
 
Originally posted by Robert V Robert V wrote:

PS, Sue, do you really need to have that banner about killing animals?
 
Can't we have another banner now please?
 
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What's it worth? 
 
Well, what do you want?
 
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