Amphibians in Wales...where are they ?

[Bri]

Amphibians in general round here must be amazing when it comes to hiding or it might just be I'm not looking hard enough, but from reading everyones posts it seems that you can find frogs/toads/newts just about everywhere you look !!!

When I was a kid all you could ever find were frogs, and from talking to people in work and amongst my friends the same seems to be true now. I still take my kids down to the local canals,ponds and streams looking for tadpoles (like fathers did when I was a kid and will probably remain a traditional fatherly activity into the next century !!!) without any success outside of ...yes you guessed it frogs !!!

Is South Wales an amphibian black spot

Grass snakes and slow worms are every where (still have to check my mother's lawns for her before I cut the grass - her garden backs onto wood land), but toads and newts, no chance !

[phil]

the opposite is true here in manchester bri, we have all native amphibians in relative abundance with the exception of bufo calamita, but reptiles are rare. me and my boys often travel 150 miles or more to find grass-snakes. adders and common lizards are present on nearby saddleworth moor but by no means common

[phil]

seems strange that grass snakes are abundant in the absence of newts as these are greatly relished, or maybe thats the reason why there aren't many newts

[Bri]

We find slow worms at my mother's place every time we cut the grass. To see adders and grass snakes we just have to walk down the end of her street, across 15ft of grassland to be in the local woodland (all greenbelt).