After six cold and dry evenings, the weather changed on Wednesday 3rd March to damp and misty with light rain and a mild 9C. The toad patrols had not found any toad movement at all in the previous six evenings, then suddenly it was all go. The patrol moved 111 toads across the road with one fatality, it being squashed by a passing vehicle. Thirty three of the toads were females, a much bigger proportion than seen previously. The females usually had an eager male on their backs!
The picture show that it was not only toads on the move on Wednesday. The female frog with an eager male on her back was photographed in the alley beside my house.
