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superdart ![]() Member ![]() Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 48 |
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AGILIS ![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1689 |
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Any thought given to that this may be a new discovered marine toad
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Liz Heard ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Location: South West Status: Offline Points: 1352 |
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Same goes for my sighting i would say - on both points. Just like Superdart's location, there was a source of fresh water close by, although it was no more than a tiniest of trickles. Hi Keith. I did feel that if the long, dry spell continued, the tadpoles, in their rapidly diminishing breeding 'ponds', were probably doomed. However, i couldn't have moved them even if i wanted to because i didn't have the means: eg no net, no identified, suitable receptor site in mind and no time to do it either. Plus there's the risk of potentially spreading infectious disease elsewhere. |
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will ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1808 |
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....and also you'd be disturbing a fascinating bit of science and confusing the heck out of their natal instincts!
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Suzy ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1344 |
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I found this paragraph on the website of the Natural History Society of Northumbria
"Toads and their tadpoles are also able to tolerate slightly brackish water where other amphibians cannot. They can be found in sand dune pools and other ponds that receive sea spray, such as cliff top ponds, salt marshes and where freshwater streams reach the sea, such as at Castle Eden Dene mouth." http://www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk/news/cms/common-toad/ Perhaps someone from there can comment? Edited by Suzy - 05 May 2015 at 8:58am |
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Caleb ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Status: Offline Points: 655 |
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I've seen common toad tadpoles on the seaward side of the dunes at Castle Eden Dene and Hawthorn Dene. This is still a fair way from the sea, as the beach is very wide.
I thought that both had probably been washed there from further upstream (mainly because the waterbodies were very small and shallow) rather than having been spawned on the beach. Further north in Northumberland, common toads live on the beach at Hauxley, though they spawn in big lakes on the landward side of the dunes. These have been shown on TV feeding from the strandline just like natterjacks do (I can't remember the name of the programme, but it was presented by Bill Oddie).
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will ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1808 |
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yes, I remember that - they were feasting on sandhoppers I think, but I can't remember the name of the programme either!
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Suzy ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1344 |
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Was it this prog?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007zch1 |
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will ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1808 |
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that's exactly the one I had in mind when Caleb mentioned it - thanks Suz - common toads plus sandhoppers, the former looking as if they are in a natterjack-copying contest!
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Caleb ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Status: Offline Points: 655 |
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Yes, that's the one I was thinking of.
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