Baby Frogs - should they be here now?

[rustylady]

At work today, at the back of the house is a large garden - child friendly, i.e. no flower beds, lots of shrubs and lawn. We have squirrels, lots of birds, a few field mice and frogs in season. However, today we found two or three baby frogs no more than an inch and a half long. This is very late in the year for babies - anyone else noticed this? I do worry that they aren't big enough to make it through the winter.

[pigletwillie]

Dont worry Rusty, I work in a superquarry and rescue baby toads by the box full that end up in our basements and pump houses. They are at the mo the size of my thumb end or smaller and will hibernate just fine.

My rescued toads go to the allotment site where I have several piles of logs and bricks for them to hibernate in.

Funny its always toads I find, rarely frogs.

[scared55]

We like toads - they eat slugs

KK

[pigletwillie]

Exactly, thats why some 600 have had new homes this year. Our place has lots of settlement ponds, lagoons and other water courses and has a huge amphibian population, Mainly toads and newts with a smattering of frogs.

[lainey lou]

my Dad has loas of cutey lickle frogs in his pond still, they always seem to make it, apart from the odd massacre with the lawn mower, Ooop!

[Headfry]

Morning Rusty lady, my 'froglets' are about the same size, they will be fine I am sure.
Most of mine seem to hide in the leaf litter on my small flower beds, I tend not to rake these leaves now.
Please don't worry!
HF
x

[Flummery]

We have lots of bluebottle sized frogs at this time every year. We don't have lawn as such but OH loves his little wild flower meadow. When he gives it a late chop (like last weekend) he goes over it all with a long cane swished from side to side and they scurry off into the flowers and shrubs at the side. Old softy, he is.

[Phreddy]

Loads of frogs here. I am at a loss to understand how they survived the summer - over 40 and no rain. They didn't seem to appreciate me watering them either.
The word for frogs and toads is jabba so being a cockney, a walk up the jabba and jabba knocks the sense out of it. Strange language this.
Can anyone confirm? Frogs jump, toads walk(ish).
Phreddy

[Headfry]

Yes...
frogs jump, toads walk
rabbits run white tail up, hares run tail down.

[rustylady]

Glad to hear they should be OK. It's just that I always associate frog and toadspawn with spring, babies with early summer and adult frogs and toads hibernating in autumn/winter. There's plenty of cover for them.