It’s time for our annual spring toad mass breeding event. The pond has 1000s of toads around the banks. Just piled on top of each other. Not afraid of anything. The trilling sound is deafening. Already clouds of black eggs around the banks. In a few days there will be millions of tiny black tadpoles. If I could figure out a way to link in a video, you could enjoy the racket.
I haven't seen any in my main this year, I wonder if the LMB have something to do with that? My sediment pond has a fair amount of them and lots of eggs of different types.
Very early the life of my pond we experienced a toad mass breeding event, but to my knowledge it hasn't been repeated. Back then we had a relatively small population of LMB, so maybe that was a factor.
