Frogs rock in purple socks

A summer for frogs

A new Telling Toads poem

or maybe a song....

How has you summer gone? For our amphibian friends it has been a season of mixed fortunes with an early spring and sudden stretches of almost to hot days. We are still waiting for this summer’s numbers but you might like to know that last year, Froglife’s bold Toads on Roads patrols, helped 98,483 toads at 165 different crossing points.

Find out more by following the link. Be inspired! Be a toad-hero!

Or become a frog-friend. You might dig a pond. You might enocureage a bit of long grass, a pile of old wood, a cheerfully dmap corner ina garden or park. Or you might try following the following advice

The Frog Rap!

Have you sat in the shade?

In the leafy glade

Beside the pool

Where it’s nice and cool

And the frog rocks

In his purple socks

On his lily pad stage

Have you sat in the shade?       

                         

Cos I have!

I’ve sat in the shade

In a leafy glade

Beside the pool

Where it’s nice and cool

And I’ve rocked

With the frog

In his purple socks

But I wore yellow!

Jan Hedger

Thanks to Jan for this contribution to our Telling Toads collection and to Marilyn Dougan for the image. The Frog Rap really needs to be spoken out loud, so why not alarm the people next to you by cheerfully reciting this lovely little poem. I feel there should be a dance that goes with it..... Telling Toads sets out to gather new poems and stories celebrating amphibians and reptilesWhy not have a look at the notes about what we are looking for and unleash your inner frogliness across a page or screen…..find out more, here

Photos: c/o G MacLellan

 Watch out for the week at the start of October 

when Creeping Toad takes over the Froglife Twitter Feed for a week