Toads on Roads

Common toads are amphibians, breeding in ponds during the spring and spending much of the rest of the year feeding in woodland, gardens, hedgerows and tussocky grassland. They're famous for their mass migrations back to their breeding ponds on the first warm, damp evenings of the year, often around Valentine's Day.

Toads are very particular about where they breed and often migrate back to their ancestral breeding ponds each year. They follow the same route, regardless of what gets in their way, which sometimes leads to them crossing busy roads. A toad vs. traffic scenario sadly leads to the toads inevitably coming off worse, but you can help! 

During the migration season each year, volunteers head out to help toads, frogs and newts to cross the roads to their ancestral breeding ponds, and also help them on their way back across.