Frogs and toads and newt

[JohnRostron]

Many years ago, in pre-digital days, I took a number of shots to try and show the life cycle of our native amphibians here. Because of the limitations of hard disk space in those days I had saved them as 800px-wide tiffs. Many of the pics were poorly exposed, but I managed to select these as representatives.

#1 Common Frogs in amplexus in a dyke:


#2 Common Toad on land:


#3 Common Frog, just metamorphosed on its first foray onto land:


#4 Common Toad, almost fully metamorphosed, in a tank:


#5 Palmate Newt Head, in a tank:


Comments welcome.

John

[Shadowman]

I like #3, others look well situated in their habitat.

[IzzieK]

I have not seen a newt, just head about it in the past. The first one is my favourite of all here...are all your frogs in separate tanks? Very interesting subject you chose here. The little baby look cute too...

[Nicks Pics]

Interesting series. Well done, especially for using film

[JohnRostron]

I have not seen a newt, just head about it in the past. The first one is my favourite of all here...are all your frogs in separate tanks? Very interesting subject you chose here. The little baby look cute too...

Newts are an Old World family of salamanders. We have three species in the UK. The mating frogs were in a borrow-dyke (a long narrow pond just behind a sea wall). I did photograph both frogs and toads mating and spawning in a tank, and the subsequent development of the eggs and tadpoles to metamorphosis. However, the photographic quality of these leaves much to be desired. If anyone is interested, I can put up the sequences on my website for all to see.

John