Toadspawn

[Toadspawn]

Today I was delighted to watch a pair of toads mating and laying spawn around a grass in the pond. Toads do seem to spawn about 2weeks after frogs because the 10 clumps of frogspawn just begining to hatch. Just a pity newts don't lay in such a visible way. They appeared active in the same pond about 3 days ago.
At least the tadpoles will provide food for the dragon fly larvae and there should be a good emergence again this year.

[Toadspawn]

[Mimi]

Just popped out on this gorgeous day to see whats what in the pond and caught these two at it as well.

[Simon05]

Mimi,

good pic, not got toads in my pond just frogs, newts and dragonflies

Toadspawn,

I know what you mean about the dragonfly larvae eating all the tadpoles, I counted at least 10 dragonfly larvae in my pond last year, only a few tadpoles made it into frogs