Frogs and Toads

Wow. So after a really hot dry spell here in sunny SE England, we awoke this morning to hoards of tiny froglets and toadlets crawling and hopping around on our terrace. It rained last night – usual water based rain, and first for a couple weeks – but did these amphibians come down with it like some biblical plague !!?? We had some toadlets the other day in the wood, around the pond, but today there were ( and really no exaggeration at all ) hundreds today. They didn’t breed in our pond as it is in the wood, too shady, and we never spotted any toad or frog spawn this year. I have a couple of great photos of a box of frogs after we rescued them by making ramps into cardboard boxes I just hope that they will survive in sufficent number so that they can keep our burgeoning slug population down, and keep our resident single adult toad and two small frogs company too. I’ve decided I realy like toads.