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ANDREW CLARKE
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Joined: 20 Jul 2004
No. of posts: 2


View other posts by ANDREW CLARKE 		Posted: 20 Jul 2004
Dear Members,

I am no expert but from reading your site I suspect I may have a frog/toad of some sort in my garden. Last night at approx 5am-6.30am I was awoken by a series of high pitched calls/whistling which I cannot identify with any birdsong or other fauna like sound I have heard before.
This experience has coincided with 2 individual sightings, one by myself and one by my partner of a frog/toad (we're not sure which). Since we have never heard this sound before our first assumption is that the sound and the amphibian are linked. Is this likely?

Many thanks

Kate and Andrew

Battersea, London

aclarke1@mac.com
GemmaJF
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Joined: 25 Jan 2003
No. of posts: 2090


View other posts by GemmaJF 		Posted: 21 Jul 2004

Hi,

If possible take a photograph of this toad and email it to admin@herpetofauna.co.uk. No native amphibian has a high pitched whistling call, but it could be an introduced species.

I'm guessing but did it look anything like this?

http://www.herpetofauna.co.uk/midwife_toad.htm

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Gemma Fairchild, Independent Ecological Consultant

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