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Post by Rosie on Feb 6, 2013 14:52:10 GMT
That must have been quite scary Cherry. We get frogs and toads in the garden too, i had a resident frog in the polytunnel last year   And i found a toad hiding in a plant pot in August last year, i set him/her free in the long grass behind the garage.  |
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Post by Cherry on Feb 6, 2013 16:06:31 GMT
That really is ugly. Bet you did not take it out in your hand.
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Post by SueA on Feb 6, 2013 19:06:56 GMT
They do look like they've got a plague of boils don't they! ;D
I've never seen toad spawn, thanks for the photo Grindle.
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Post by grindle on Feb 7, 2013 6:13:34 GMT
he fitted in that pot nicely Rosie ;D you're welcome Sue  |
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Post by Geranium on Feb 7, 2013 7:03:31 GMT
Do toads eat slugs? What would it be doing in our respective gardens?
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Post by markb on Feb 7, 2013 7:12:20 GMT
Do toads eat slugs? What would it be doing in our respective gardens? Yes geranium toads do eat slugs. A good ally to have in the fight against the slimy monsters, lol. |
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Post by grindle on Feb 7, 2013 8:19:17 GMT
I agree with Mark, they eat loads of them ;D
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Post by Rosie on Feb 7, 2013 9:35:04 GMT
That really is ugly. Bet you did not take it out in your hand. Darn tootin i dodn't ;D ;D I thought it was quite cute ;D ;D |
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Post by peony on Feb 7, 2013 11:26:39 GMT
I think toads spend most of their time out of water and just go back to ponds in spring to mate. I've often seen them around the garden in the summer months and have a couple of terracotta pots propped up with a stone which they hide under. I found one hiding in the bottom of my big urn which had a bowl on the top with annuals in (it must have crawled up through the big hole at the bottom of the urn). Perhaps it liked getting a shower every time I watered the annuals ;D Oops! sorry I've put this post in the wrong place, I've no idea how to move it   I moved it over to the right thread Peony ;D |
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 7, 2013 12:05:33 GMT
One thing I have noticed about toads is that every time you pick one up they wee in your hand. It may be a reaction caused by fright I don't know but I only pick them up to move them out of harm's way.
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 14, 2013 20:19:24 GMT
Caught the frog which was in our back (Walled garden) and took it down to the side of the pond. beats me how it got into the walled backyard in the first place. Flying frog???
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Post by SueA on Feb 14, 2013 21:06:46 GMT
Maybe it had been caught by something (cat?) & carried round & dropped in there Sweetpea or squeezed through a tiny gap or been hiding in a pot of compost you've moved in there?
I haven't seen any frogspawn in our pond but there was definitely something bobbing around in there this morning, I was looking out of the kitchen window & could see the water moving but wasn't going out in my P.J.s to look & when I went out later I couldn't find anything.
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 14, 2013 21:12:46 GMT
Maybe it had been caught by something (cat?) & carried round & dropped in there Sweetpea or squeezed through a tiny gap or been hiding in a pot of compost you've moved in there? I haven't seen any frogspawn in our pond but there was definitely something bobbing around in there this morning, I was looking out of the kitchen window & could see the water moving but wasn't going out in my P.J.s to look & when I went out later I couldn't find anything. |
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Post by SueA on Feb 15, 2013 21:12:38 GMT
Possibly but I've never seen those in our pond Sweetpea, I think it may have been a frog but they've learnt to hide under the plants when anything approaches because of the neighbourhood pussycats grabbing them. I only saw one frog last year even though we usually have quite a few around.
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Post by grindle on Mar 6, 2013 7:49:33 GMT
I found a barely alive frog on the grass yesterday, it looks suspiciously like it was suffering from the red leg virus, hope there's no more get it  |
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