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Found this teeny woodland camo fellow on our wood store. Frog or toad?
Thanks for any help.
Baby Robin
Frog. Try to pick it up, you’ll find out very quickly. Toads have dry, warty skin, and will let you pick them up with little drama. Frogs, on the other hand (!), will fight like fury, are incredibly muscular and will force their way through your fingers. I love toads, I wish I had them in my garden, but there’s no ponds anywhere near where they’d be able to spawn.
I did find a newt striding very purposefully across the concrete warehouse floor of a place I used to work, the nearest pond is roughly a kilometre away. Heaven alone knows how it got there, the wee thing was lucky it didn’t get smeared across the floor by a ton or so of forklift carrying another half ton of palletised paper. I put it into a little plastic box with damp tissue paper and took it to the pond on my way home.
And yes, I am aware that you need to have a license to handle newts, but I don’t think the little critter was going to call for a representative to complain.
Not convinced. He has a really natty, stripey pully.
Sorry CZ. Bit of a cross post.
We previously had a toad we called Morse. However I don't think stripey top is the same thing?
Morse.
Stripey wasn't up for being handled. We don't have a pond or one nearby.
A quick Google suggests Common Frog.
Inaturalist says:
Pond frog (genus Rana)
Rana is a genus of frogs commonly known as the Holarctic true frogs, pond frogs or brown frogs. Members of this genus are found through much of Eurasia, North America, Central America, and the northern half of South America. Many other genera were formerly included here. These true frogs are usually largish species characterized by their slim waists and wrinkled skin; many have thin ridges running along their backs, but they generally lack "warts" as in... (Source: Wikipedia, Rana_(genus), CC BY-SA 3.0)
When i saw reeksy had posted i was expecting.
"I see your amphibian and raise you deadly reptile hanging from the shed roof"
I am dissapoint
We previously had a toad we called Morse
That deserves more credit! 👏