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Toad patrol on road near Bath has bumper year for crossings
The Guardian
|April 11, 2025
Why did the toad cross the road? To get to the other side, of course. But also, to reproduce.
Nearly 4,000 toads, frogs and newts were rescued as they tried to cross one of only five roads closed in Britain for the migration season to reach a breeding lake.
The patrol of Charlcombe Lane, near Bath, has recorded more than 50,000 toads, frogs and newts in the last 22 years on the half-mile stretch.
This year, there was the second highest number of amphibians recorded since the annual road closure started in 2003; and it had a significant first, with a great crested newt seen for the first time.
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