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Frog... or toad

MoklesMokles Posts: 30
in Wildlife gardening
This little thing seems to be living in our pond as it can be found whatever time I look but I don't know whether it's a toad or a frog.ether it
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  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502
    I'd say frog from the angles and lines on its back, but see what others say🙂
    Wearside, England.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I usually decide based on eye colour. If they are red, it is a Toad.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Looks like our frogs. 

    Doesn’t look like our toad. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • MoklesMokles Posts: 30
    Thank you. It hasn't got red eyes. Am I right in thinking that toads prefer to be somewhere dry most of the time?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    From a wartiness point of view it's a frog. Frogs also have the pointy nose.
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    Definitely a common frog. Toads like damp, dark places to hide away during the day and come out at night to feed on slugs, worms and insects etc.  Frogs like to warm themselves up during the day by basking in the sunshine at a pond edge but dive back into the water when disturbed. They seem to spend a lot more time in the water than toads. 
  • MoklesMokles Posts: 30
    Thank you. That certainly fits with his antics - that's me assuming it's male.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I don't know about frogs being near water, I have had a frog in my greenhouse (I have no pond, and neither do the neighbours ) for two years. It arrived the size of a ten pence and is now full grown, I quite expected it to go this year to find a pond but it is still there.
  • The_herpetologistThe_herpetologist Posts: 481
    Male Common Frog, Rana Temporaria 
  • MoklesMokles Posts: 30
    Thanks, but I'm curious to know how you know it's a male.
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