I watched a fine Buzzard in the previous blog predating on frogs or toads this morning. When I arrived home I decided to check out our large garden pond which already contained masses of frog spawn, I could see a few toads floating on the surface with their heads and huge amber eyes reflecting on the water surface but I had expected to see more.
Then ripples spreading out from behind a recess formed by large granite rocks gave the game away with a dozen or more male toads writhing over each other in a very confined space, I have to assume that there was a female toad caught up in there somewhere and would expect to start seeing the tell-tale string egg lines showing very shortly
Their mating seems to be a very public and social affair, But I guess its each to their own !!
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