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    Posted: 26 Sep 2014 at 5:51pm
just returned from Lakes. Whilst walking round Grasmere lake spotted a large toad. Green speckled back, yellow to bright orange belly with a red "Maltese cross" on each flank. Very long red toes. Sorry about poor description as only joined to find out what this was? Any ideas?
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welcome, thanks for joining!  if it was a toad it could only have been a female common toad Bufo bufo unless some exotic escape.  It sounds a beauty!  they can be colourful especially big old females, often reddish/orange.  Female common frogs are also often very variable in colour.  If your 'toad' had a rather pointed rather than rounded snout when seen from above with a dark patch behind the eye, pearly granules on the flanks and longish legs - leaping rather than flopping or crawling when disturbed, then it was probably a frog rather than a toad.  Sorry not to be more definitive!
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