A common frog photographed in the woods alongside the Lambrok.
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Drought
How do our frogs survive as the reserve’s ponds and streams dry up in the drought?
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A common frog photographed by Liz yesterday in the woods alongside the Lambrok.
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It’s garden-tidy-up time.
Keep a look out for hibernating amphibians as you tidy up your garden ready for winter. Frogs, toads and newts will find sheltered places to hibernate in hedge bottoms, compost heaps, under stones and in log piles and are best not disturbed. Take particular care if you are planning to clear out a pond: frogs and newts will sometimes overwinter in the mud at the bottom.
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It’s garden-tidy-up time.
Keep a look out for hibernating amphibians as you tidy up your garden ready for winter. Frogs, toads and newts will find sheltered places to hibernate in hedge bottoms, compost heaps, under stones and in log piles and are best not disturbed. Take particular care if you are planning to clear out a pond: frogs and newts will sometimes overwinter in the mud at the bottom.
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Hibernacula
Build a hibernaculum to help the amphibians and reptiles in your garden through the winter.
More about toads
The common toad is no longer common: its population is in decline and it is listed as a Priority Species in the UK Post-2010 Biodiversity Framework. So, we are returning for a closer look at the toad we found and photographed in Village Green on Wednesday, the first toad-sighting for some years.
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Toad in the Hole
A common toad (Bufo bufo) found in a very wet Village Green this morning, living peaceably in a field vole tunnel under a ragwort plant. We pulled up the ragwort and the toad moved further down the tunnel.
Pictures taken in the park by Suzanne Humphries.
Tadpoles
Common frog tadpoles (Rana temporaria) in the little pond under the Decorated Bridge.
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Southwick Country Park Nature Reserve 