which ones confused?

 

a friend took this in a pic of me holding these beauties thought the male looked rather big in on the pond bottom, a closer look and i saw he was a frog, managed to catch them for the pic, ive not seen this before hope he let go and let a toad on to fertilise the eggs!

I've seen this several times at some of sites where reasonable numbers of toads and frogs both breed. It may be more likely to occur when the weather has delayed some or all of the frogs reaching the pond until the toads are on their way. This year up here there were a couple of wet nights when frogs started returning in large numbers but then it was very cold and the rest of the frogs together with the toads all moved quickly at the end of March. In a "normal" year frogs have spawned a couple of weeks before the toads but this year there has been a lot of late frog spawn at the same time as the toads were spawning. So not surprising some male frogs get confused in the mele.

Jon, according to the literature female common toads have no call or voice. I've yet to hear a sound from one so tend think this is accurate.

Male common toads have both an advertisement croak and the distinctive fast repeated release call.