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Postern Member Joined: 23 Oct 2004 No. of posts: 2  View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 23 Oct 2004
Topic: Frog re-location
I'm interested in this topic as a Victorian villa is being redeveloped alongside us here in Dawlish. Every Spring the small pond fills with, I think, common frogs. Later they disappear to all corners of the Empire. I'd like to ask the developer to leave the pond, but I suspect they are so desperate for parking space they intend to take it out. Will the frog population automatically look elsewhere for their breeding ground? Can I give any useful advice to the developer that will reduce the imapct of their works?
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Postern Member Joined: 23 Oct 2004 No. of posts: 2 View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 11 Feb 2005
Topic: Frog re-location
Our local team turn out to be toads rather than frogs, and some were living in the bottom of the pond when the developer wanted to excavate. I got Dawlish Community College to come and clear the pond itself and its occupants to a new site they have started in their grounds. Now the warm damp evenings have encouraged 40 or more local toads to return to the site of the pond-that-was and they find only black tarmac. Can anyone tell me if there's any intervention advisable and what it would be, for those toads looking for their pond to leave spawn? Please read this and reply. Bob V |
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