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Thank you. The council have now put in some habitats around the pond as well thanks to my reports and may put up some toad crossing signs for next spring.
This was brilliant mate , i love how you never lost that kid like excitement in youre eye when looking at the wild life .. great video.. greetings from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
Do not worry about the camera shaking the footage was very good. And also, it would be good to see how the pond progresses throughout the up-and-coming months 😊 Thanks you
Great video again Liam. I'd love an update on the pond when you get a chance. At this stage I'd watch you film some earthworms such is your enthusiasm.
Thanks Brian, I really appreciate that. Whilst we are on that point, how much do you know about earthworms? I have recently been considering doing a fact file on garden snails (mainly because I want to learn more about them myself).
Random, I know but slugs. As a kid I'd experiment by placing a bit of any food 6-10 feet from slugs which immediately changed direction to make a beeline for it. They just knew where it was.
Thank you for going back to get some shots of the tadpoles. I was hoping you would. I think the filming was fine. We were able to see just fine. In my area in New York State we will soon be going into frog season (I call it), so as you walk on the trail you will hear their songs. It gets quite loud actually. And then after the frogs or near the end of their mating season we have the turtles 🐢, and of course the different types of birds, Mallards, Canada Geese, Swans, Gray Heron, and a few others. I really appreciate you filming the different types of ducks. Yes, please do set up the wildlife camera. I think that would be interesting!
Are these common frogs (Rana temporaria) or one of your north American varieties? Ours (the males) can croak loudly on Spring nights. I've heard marsh frogs loudly 'laughing' in the evening on Romney Marsh,, Kent- sounds a bit unnerving! You're lucky to have turtles as we only have escaped red-eared terrapins in a few local ponds which cause havoc among the native wildlife.
@@PaIaeoCIive1684 that’s really interesting. I don’t really know much about the frogs around here. But during their season they can be quite loud almost any part of the day.
@@donnaml8776 Hi Donna. Sounds like they' might be like our English frogs but you'd have to go and study them close up to be sure. You've got more species of frog than our island so it could be a yank relative though. I'd probably be in a trance if I was squeezing out eggs too (ouch)! If they're big enough, I expect the turtles eat the frogs at times. Getting late here, so thanks for info & cheerio!
@@PaIaeoCIive1684 lol, I suppose it would need complete concentration 🥚 . You’re probably correct about the turtles eating frogs. The turtle are a good size. Actually there are a variety of sizes and species of turtles 🐢 and frogs as well, I imagine. Hope you had a restful night. Take care.
You should do it, I plan on really upping the amount of underwater filming I do over the next few months and its great to be able to show people something they usually wouldnt be able to see.
Hi. Great video as always. Amazed at how many tadpoles there are and will be interesting to see what else is around the area. Is the pond near to Norwich? just wondering as I'm local and would love to visit in real life and have a go at some underwater filming too - wouldn't be as good as yours though!😀
Hi Liam brilliant video again never seen so many tadpoles in one place love how you are about wildlife and I would definitely love you to setup wildlife cameras there please keep up the brilliant work and videos Bernard
As always very interesting ,like your enthusiasm for the subject you show .Keep up the very interesting work & I would like to see the follow video on the pond by the road side .Thank you .😊
Fabulous video Liam .The wildlife is clever and spots an ideal spot .Hope it keeps it and location likewise.. Will the Toads need to cross the road again ? If so you are going to be a very busy guy .I really am tempted to get a GoPro for underwater .👍👏🏻Looking forward to your next adventure and an update on this haven ...
You should do it, it's not the easiest thing to film with but worth it! The adult toads will have already crossed the road now, hopefully safely. I have been speaking with the council who own the pond and they are going to put some toad crossing signs up for next spring and hopefully create some safe habitat around the pond itself. Cheers
Lovely tadpole underwater shots! When I was a kid, I used to love putting my hands in the ponds we had at home and letting the tadpoles nibble at my fingers - it just kind of tickled. I miss being a kid..:) As an aide, I noticed you have removed the 'Hello, 'its Liam here' part from you intro? I liked it when you introduced yourself - it made the video's very personable (not that they aren't now by the way - but just giving some feedback) :)
I kept tadpoles too when I was a kid. We'd put them in a tin bath on the allotment. I remember being really upset when I went to have a look, and they'd all turned into toads and hopped out! 😅
Yes, tadpoles is a favourite word of mine after so many fun pond-dipping days during endless summers. Like Chris Packham I even tasted a few after a pal dared me and just remember a squishy, earthy taste (I know, children can be gross). To make amends, I saved thousands of toad tadpoles by transferring them from a drying-up pool to a large pond. Pouring black masses of countless writhing tads by plastic bucket into the pond is a great memory.
Hi mate another great video I love these little wildlife shots in my dreadfully short attention span they suit me I have two wildlife ponds in my garden both very small because it’s a small garden the frogs spawn in one but I have lost two out of the last three years frogs spawn to a late frost I am soon to Retire partially so I may have the time to move the pond into a place that gets a bit more sunlight and not blocked by the fence hoping this will solve the problem keep up the good work
I am interested to know that when you say moorhens are the first to colonize a pond. How they get there as they hardly fly? Nice to see lots of tadpoles
In honesty, I dont know. I suspect that when young birds leave their parents territories in the autumn, they are forced to disperse and therefore end up in new ponds.
what an awesome video Liam, i have taken my fair share of shaky footage, it can be frustrating when we have a limited window - BUT your footage was great, i think sometimes some movement is ok, adds to the immersive feel of what we are watching. i lok forward to more updates from that location later in the year :) great work dude
As a cautionary tale for young tadpoles, and to keep them from getting "splattered", you might consider piping Walter Beasley's "Toad-frog Blues" down to them. You can find it here on you tube.
What I find very frustrating is this, I have a wildlife pond but am now disabled. I’ve had several people helping in my garden but the only one that knew how to look after the pond was wanting to charge over £200 for a couple of hours work plus travel expenses, this was 20 yrs ago so I dread to think how much it would cost now. I’m a member of the RHS and have enquired after courses that I could send one of the helpers on but no, they couldn’t help. I’m nearly at the point of filling it in but I have frogs, toads, newts and grass snakes not to mention copious breeds of Dragon Fly etc so I’m not keen on that idea.
@@AShotOfWildlife we bought our farm in Sept 1994 and had to do a lot of work on the place, it was obvious that the builders would be here for a long time so I asked them to dig out for a pond whilst they had diggers here, somehow they took that to mean that I wanted them to actually build a pond and left me with the thing I really DIDN’T want, a concreted hole! 😳😵💫We eventually had the concrete removed, added some shelves and went from there. Over the years we added a bog-garden and everything looked good and was occupied almost immediately. At the time I had three ducks which I used to walk down to the pond daily just for a dip and some exercise, I don’t think I realised what a cracking job they were doing on pond maintenance until I didn’t have them anymore, the water was always clean and, as a side benefit I think their droppings were fertilising the pond plants! 😜 Over time it became overgrown, both around the sides and in the pond itself, the bog garden was taken over by an invasive plant that was very difficult to deal with so it just was a mess all around. Then 7 years ago I employed a really good man as a gardener/handyman, he didn’t know anything about ponds but was very keen to learn, hence looking for courses. One thing we agreed on was that we should’ve had some sort of running water system, there is a bank around one side of the pond which would lend itself to a waterfall, we started to gather equipment to do it but then my medical conditioned worsened and I became bed-bound (I hate that term!) and eventually got to the point where even discussing the garden over the phone was just too much and he didn’t like to just go ahead and do it so it was left until such time as I hit a period of remission, that didn’t happen and then, the final straw, my really good worker moved house so after 7/8 years he left last Nov. I haven’t seen the pond and haven’t asked for photos since my living arrangements depress me quite enough without adding to it! I imagine that by now finding the pond could be hard and I now have a worker who although willing just doesn’t have a fraction of the previous man’s energy and know-how! 😢😢😢😢
I know exactly where you're coming from. I'm 58 and have been disabled with chronic illnesses, very frequent migraines and chronic pain for 25 years. My passion has always been wildlife, but I haven't been able to cope with ANYTHING these past several years, so everything in the garden is broken, and falling down. The garden itself is gradually just being overrun with grass. I have no family, nobody to help, and gardeners are just waaay too expensive. I AM still able to feed the birds, although I have a shed full of bird feeders that have needed to be cleaned and disinfected for the last 3 years! It's a bugger. 😔
@@Mortthemoose yes, it certainly is a pita! I can just about get to the bathroom on a zimmer but I can’t get downstairs, well, I probably could on my derrière but getting back up? Probably not! I don’t know the size of your garden but I do know of some people that are in the same position as us, they advertised in their local Fb groups for people that like gardening but who don’t have one, some have made new friends that way!
I believe its actually something to so with the gopro lens combined with the waters surface. They work together in the same way as a mirror. If you ever look into a rectangle aquarium you will notice that if you look to the sides they look mirrored also.
That does probably have a bit of an affect, I wonder if fish will colonise. There arent any other ponds very close by but I wouldnt be surprised if people didnt introduce fish at some point.
You could be right, and I didn't see many insect predators in Liam's video either (just a backswimmer/boatman). Once dragonflies, boatmen and water beetles fly in and breed they'll take a heavy toll of the tadpoles. The dragonfly nymphs in a small pond in a park I studied were so numerous that the tadpoles were almost all taken in one season.
Toad tads can be distasteful due to skin toxins, so a fish might gobble one or two but leave the rest alone. It's the invertebrate predators flying in and ferocious larvae of these that will cull them.
@@jointgib Even without people putting fish there they might arrive, Many very remote ponds and streams have fish in them that may have arrived as eggs stuck to the legs or plumage of water birds.
Thanks! I suspect this comment has ended up on the wrong video some how but I know which video you was commenting on. A lot of them wont survive to toad-ulthood but even after that, its a harsh world for a fingernail sized amphibian.
Most books say only about one tadpole in 200 will be luck enough to make it to adult toad. Even then, there are many predators, diseases and other things like human traffic to cull them. Like Liam says, it's a harsh life for amphibians.
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This pond is very special.
Awesome job saving the toads from being squashed. Ive done the same myself in the past. May God bless you and your loved ones.
Thank you. The council have now put in some habitats around the pond as well thanks to my reports and may put up some toad crossing signs for next spring.
This was brilliant mate , i love how you never lost that kid like excitement in youre eye when looking at the wild life .. great video.. greetings from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
Thank you. I love it as much as I always have so I'm glad that shines through!
Excellent, I love these videos.
Great footage. Hope some newts will colonise the pond once it gets a bit more established, that would be awesome.
Great video Liam and yes please set up you wildlife cams so you can capture wild life at day or night time it would be great to see what comes there
Thanks for sharing. It's amazing how nature can take over so quickly.
Fantastic 😊
Thank you!
what a great job; really clear and fun. Thanks
Good video as usual. would like monthly update at the pond
Do not worry about the camera shaking the footage was very good. And also, it would be good to see how the pond progresses throughout the up-and-coming months 😊 Thanks you
Great video again Liam. I'd love an update on the pond when you get a chance. At this stage I'd watch you film some earthworms such is your enthusiasm.
Thanks Brian, I really appreciate that. Whilst we are on that point, how much do you know about earthworms? I have recently been considering doing a fact file on garden snails (mainly because I want to learn more about them myself).
Random, I know but slugs. As a kid I'd experiment by placing a bit of any food 6-10 feet from slugs which immediately changed direction to make a beeline for it. They just knew where it was.
Thank you Liam! I've never seen so many tadpoles. Thanks for sharing.😊🍁
Thank you. It'll be interesting to see how they all develop and grow.
Wow so many tadpoles what a lovely video, very special pond looks lovely, thanks for that & the updates would be great
I live in Oakland CA and I love watching your videos. Your common animals are brand new to me. I love it!
I'd never before thought about what tadpoles eat. Brilliant video, thanks.
Thank you!
The larger ones will eat the smaller ones on occasion!
Excellent Liam! Certainly would love to see another update later on!
Thank you. I will go back in a few weeks and let everyone know how things are progressing. Cheers
Love these vids always good! Keep it up:)❤😊❤😊
Thank you for going back to get some shots of the tadpoles. I was hoping you would. I think the filming was fine. We were able to see just fine. In my area in New York State we will soon be going into frog season (I call it), so as you walk on the trail you will hear their songs. It gets quite loud actually. And then after the frogs or near the end of their mating season we have the turtles 🐢, and of course the different types of birds, Mallards, Canada Geese, Swans, Gray Heron, and a few others. I really appreciate you filming the different types of ducks.
Yes, please do set up the wildlife camera. I think that would be interesting!
Are these common frogs (Rana temporaria) or one of your north American varieties? Ours (the males) can croak loudly on Spring nights. I've heard marsh frogs loudly 'laughing' in the evening on Romney Marsh,, Kent- sounds a bit unnerving! You're lucky to have turtles as we only have escaped red-eared terrapins in a few local ponds which cause havoc among the native wildlife.
@@PaIaeoCIive1684 that’s really interesting. I don’t really know much about the frogs around here. But during their season they can be quite loud almost any part of the day.
@@PaIaeoCIive1684 oh, the turtles 🐢 I’ve seen them quite a bit, they go into a type of trance while they’re laying their eggs. It’s really amazing.
@@donnaml8776 Hi Donna. Sounds like they' might be like our English frogs but you'd have to go and study them close up to be sure. You've got more species of frog than our island so it could be a yank relative though. I'd probably be in a trance if I was squeezing out eggs too (ouch)! If they're big enough, I expect the turtles eat the frogs at times. Getting late here, so thanks for info & cheerio!
@@PaIaeoCIive1684 lol, I suppose it would need complete concentration 🥚 . You’re probably correct about the turtles eating frogs. The turtle are a good size. Actually there are a variety of sizes and species of turtles 🐢 and frogs as well, I imagine. Hope you had a restful night. Take care.
Thank you Liam There certainly were a lot of toad tadpoles. I would love to see videos of around the pond of other wildlife. Love your videos.
Thank you for the video and yes, please we'd like some footage of other wildlife around this pond.
Cool! Underwater filming is something I must have a go at some time soon. And yes, I'd be interested to see what you get on camera traps there! 👍🙂👍
You should do it, I plan on really upping the amount of underwater filming I do over the next few months and its great to be able to show people something they usually wouldnt be able to see.
This looks to be a great project to follow, so more please 👍
Great, I will revisit in a month or so to see how things are progressing. Cheers
You are absolutely brilliant
Thank you!
Keep them coming Liem. And if you can, we would love to see the other wildlife around the pond. Thank you
Brilliant, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Ive waited 20 years but last week I saw a smooth newt in my small pond. So excited 😊
Oooih!!! What Discovery
This is so interesting. Certainly set up camera traps as long as it is safe and will not get stolen.
Your videos are brilliant, I really enjoy watching them, cheers 🥂
Thank you!
Yes please to update video!
Great to see the pond being colonised!
Hi. Great video as always. Amazed at how many tadpoles there are and will be interesting to see what else is around the area. Is the pond near to Norwich? just wondering as I'm local and would love to visit in real life and have a go at some underwater filming too - wouldn't be as good as yours though!😀
another great video liam and please set up your trail cams thanks for sharing
Thanks Keith. I will do a follow up in a couple of weeks with camera traps, fingers crossed for some nocturnal visitors!
Ah fantastic! I rarely get to see tadpoles these days, the last time was in central Wales last year. This is such a great channel!
Thanks Jon. Im glad you enjoyed this video and the channel!
Cool !
Thank you!
Hi Liam brilliant video again never seen so many tadpoles in one place love how you are about wildlife and I would definitely love you to setup wildlife cameras there please keep up the brilliant work and videos Bernard
I just love ponds! Thanks for sharing sir!
wonderful
Thank you!
As always very interesting ,like your enthusiasm for the subject you show .Keep up the very interesting work & I would like to see the follow video on the pond by the road side .Thank you .😊
Thank you! I will set some cameras up soon and hopefully catch some of the other ponds visitors. Cheers
Lovely footage of tadpoles 💙 thank you.
What a shame that that pond is soooo close to the road....ironic huh!
great work
Cheers Jonathan!
Fabulous video Liam .The wildlife is clever and spots an ideal spot .Hope it keeps it and location likewise.. Will the Toads need to cross the road again ? If so you are going to be a very busy guy .I really am tempted to get a GoPro for underwater .👍👏🏻Looking forward to your next adventure and an update on this haven ...
You should do it, it's not the easiest thing to film with but worth it!
The adult toads will have already crossed the road now, hopefully safely. I have been speaking with the council who own the pond and they are going to put some toad crossing signs up for next spring and hopefully create some safe habitat around the pond itself. Cheers
@@AShotOfWildlife that's great news .Well done Liam and reckon come next week a GoPro is on my agenda ..Have a great week ..
Lovely video. Not much algae either in that pond.
Loved it
Thank you
Lovely tadpole underwater shots! When I was a kid, I used to love putting my hands in the ponds we had at home and letting the tadpoles nibble at my fingers - it just kind of tickled. I miss being a kid..:) As an aide, I noticed you have removed the 'Hello, 'its Liam here' part from you intro? I liked it when you introduced yourself - it made the video's very personable (not that they aren't now by the way - but just giving some feedback) :)
I kept tadpoles too when I was a kid. We'd put them in a tin bath on the allotment.
I remember being really upset when I went to have a look, and they'd all turned into toads and hopped out! 😅
Yes, tadpoles is a favourite word of mine after so many fun pond-dipping days during endless summers. Like Chris Packham I even tasted a few after a pal dared me and just remember a squishy, earthy taste (I know, children can be gross). To make amends, I saved thousands of toad tadpoles by transferring them from a drying-up pool to a large pond. Pouring black masses of countless writhing tads by plastic bucket into the pond is a great memory.
Brilliant 😊 so many tadpoles 😊
You can never have too many tads!
@@PaIaeoCIive1684brilliant 😊!
Hi mate another great video I love these little wildlife shots in my dreadfully short attention span they suit me I have two wildlife ponds in my garden both very small because it’s a small garden the frogs spawn in one but I have lost two out of the last three years frogs spawn to a late frost I am soon to Retire partially so I may have the time to move the pond into a place that gets a bit more sunlight and not blocked by the fence hoping this will solve the problem keep up the good work
Thank you. Hopefully moving your pond will help the spawn to survive, feel free to keep me posted if you do move it.
I am interested to know that when you say moorhens are the first to colonize a pond. How they get there as they hardly fly? Nice to see lots of tadpoles
They fly OK - roost in trees - but , like pheasants, they seem to dislike flying .
In honesty, I dont know. I suspect that when young birds leave their parents territories in the autumn, they are forced to disperse and therefore end up in new ponds.
I've seen ducks eating the eggs from frog spawn efficiently, so waterfowl and amphibians don't always mix!
what an awesome video Liam, i have taken my fair share of shaky footage, it can be frustrating when we have a limited window - BUT your footage was great, i think sometimes some movement is ok, adds to the immersive feel of what we are watching.
i lok forward to more updates from that location later in the year :)
great work dude
just found your videos and i love them keep it up man your awesome 👍
Thank you!
Cool 😎
Thanks! 🐸
Cheers!
As a cautionary tale for young tadpoles, and to keep them from getting "splattered", you might consider piping Walter Beasley's "Toad-frog Blues" down to them. You can find it here on you tube.
Or anything by Clarence 'Frogman' Henry?!
Thanks for the video, Question ! Are toad and frog Tadpoles different from each other in any way ? I think the Camera trap is a great idea
Yes it is
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What I find very frustrating is this, I have a wildlife pond but am now disabled. I’ve had several people helping in my garden but the only one that knew how to look after the pond was wanting to charge over £200 for a couple of hours work plus travel expenses, this was 20 yrs ago so I dread to think how much it would cost now. I’m a member of the RHS and have enquired after courses that I could send one of the helpers on but no, they couldn’t help. I’m nearly at the point of filling it in but I have frogs, toads, newts and grass snakes not to mention copious breeds of Dragon Fly etc so I’m not keen on that idea.
What is actually wrong with the pond that needs maintaining?
@@AShotOfWildlife we bought our farm in Sept 1994 and had to do a lot of work on the place, it was obvious that the builders would be here for a long time so I asked them to dig out for a pond whilst they had diggers here, somehow they took that to mean that I wanted them to actually build a pond and left me with the thing I really DIDN’T want, a concreted hole! 😳😵💫We eventually had the concrete removed, added some shelves and went from there. Over the years we added a bog-garden and everything looked good and was occupied almost immediately. At the time I had three ducks which I used to walk down to the pond daily just for a dip and some exercise, I don’t think I realised what a cracking job they were doing on pond maintenance until I didn’t have them anymore, the water was always clean and, as a side benefit I think their droppings were fertilising the pond plants! 😜 Over time it became overgrown, both around the sides and in the pond itself, the bog garden was taken over by an invasive plant that was very difficult to deal with so it just was a mess all around. Then 7 years ago I employed a really good man as a gardener/handyman, he didn’t know anything about ponds but was very keen to learn, hence looking for courses. One thing we agreed on was that we should’ve had some sort of running water system, there is a bank around one side of the pond which would lend itself to a waterfall, we started to gather equipment to do it but then my medical conditioned worsened and I became bed-bound (I hate that term!) and eventually got to the point where even discussing the garden over the phone was just too much and he didn’t like to just go ahead and do it so it was left until such time as I hit a period of remission, that didn’t happen and then, the final straw, my really good worker moved house so after 7/8 years he left last Nov. I haven’t seen the pond and haven’t asked for photos since my living arrangements depress me quite enough without adding to it! I imagine that by now finding the pond could be hard and I now have a worker who although willing just doesn’t have a fraction of the previous man’s energy and know-how! 😢😢😢😢
@@AShotOfWildlife I should have started by saying thank you for the video, I enjoyed it and will watch some more, thank you. 🌹
I know exactly where you're coming from.
I'm 58 and have been disabled with chronic illnesses, very frequent migraines and chronic pain for 25 years. My passion has always been wildlife, but I haven't been able to cope with ANYTHING these past several years, so everything in the garden is broken, and falling down. The garden itself is gradually just being overrun with grass. I have no family, nobody to help, and gardeners are just waaay too expensive. I AM still able to feed the birds, although I have a shed full of bird feeders that have needed to be cleaned and disinfected for the last 3 years! It's a bugger. 😔
@@Mortthemoose yes, it certainly is a pita! I can just about get to the bathroom on a zimmer but I can’t get downstairs, well, I probably could on my derrière but getting back up? Probably not! I don’t know the size of your garden but I do know of some people that are in the same position as us, they advertised in their local Fb groups for people that like gardening but who don’t have one, some have made new friends that way!
Please do set up a camera trap! Great vid, thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Thank you! I will set up some cameras and see what other wildlife is making use of this surprising haven.
Fab.
Thank you!
I was interested to see how reflective the water's surface film is. All of the light from the pond bottom is reflected and gives a mirror image
I believe its actually something to so with the gopro lens combined with the waters surface. They work together in the same way as a mirror. If you ever look into a rectangle aquarium you will notice that if you look to the sides they look mirrored also.
Well done buddy, toad patrol 💪🫡
👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you!
Amazing. Do you think there's so many because fish haven't colonised the pond yet?
That does probably have a bit of an affect, I wonder if fish will colonise. There arent any other ponds very close by but I wouldnt be surprised if people didnt introduce fish at some point.
You could be right, and I didn't see many insect predators in Liam's video either (just a backswimmer/boatman). Once dragonflies, boatmen and water beetles fly in and breed they'll take a heavy toll of the tadpoles. The dragonfly nymphs in a small pond in a park I studied were so numerous that the tadpoles were almost all taken in one season.
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it seems the pond is gradually turning in to a wooded swamp there are some willow trees growing in the water
You should definitely set up some camera traps and do an update video!
Thank you. I will get some cameras set up and see what appears!
A camera trap would be really interesting
I would like to see the camera trap videos.👍
😄👍
Thanks Jill!
no fish in there yet i'm guessing
Not as far as I know but I wouldn't be surprised if someone doesn't put some in sooner or later.
@@AShotOfWildlife fish have a way of finding their way in there, but it doesn't necessarily spell doom for your tadders
Toad tads can be distasteful due to skin toxins, so a fish might gobble one or two but leave the rest alone. It's the invertebrate predators flying in and ferocious larvae of these that will cull them.
@@jointgib Even without people putting fish there they might arrive, Many very remote ponds and streams have fish in them that may have arrived as eggs stuck to the legs or plumage of water birds.
If it held water all year I put some fish in it
Brilliant, though you’ve probably done too go a job. The area is gonna suffer from a biblical style plague of frogs and toads 😂
Thanks! I suspect this comment has ended up on the wrong video some how but I know which video you was commenting on. A lot of them wont survive to toad-ulthood but even after that, its a harsh world for a fingernail sized amphibian.
Most books say only about one tadpole in 200 will be luck enough to make it to adult toad. Even then, there are many predators, diseases and other things like human traffic to cull them. Like Liam says, it's a harsh life for amphibians.
Great video once again mate. The tadpoles bring me back to my childhood and these videos always inspire me to get out in nature
Cheers Joey! That's why I make them, I hope you get to see loads of wildlife.
I've just seen a micro toadlet. It was about the size of my thumbnail. Black stripes on the sides. Olive green. Super cute!