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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 17:52:40 GMT 10
 Gday An excited wife, she was feeding the fish in her pond and she found this frog spawn. No it's not cane toad spawn either. Cane toad spawn is a long string of eggs. If you look at the pic you can see the silvery mass in the corner. The little black specs are the tade poles. As they mature the mass breaks down and releases them into the water. A good way of doing the survival things really as the ponds are full of "blue eye"fish. Which by the way were introduced into the river systems in WW1 to control Mozzies. The ponds are a set of cement laundry sinks left over from the laundry Reno. Wife would not let them go. And I wouldn't dig them into the ground, cause I recon she"d lose interest. Best thing we could have done really as the toads can't hop that high and the locals frogs win as result. Not sure what the spawn actually is cause we have two different frogs at our place. One a brown frog that makes a distinctive mechanical "cloock" sound. They moved in with the pond from the neighbours two houses to the back fence. The other is a small green tree frog with orange undersides that lives on the lilly pilly. I also know where they come from as well. The kid over the back used to catch them at school and his mum was forever getting me to remove them from the pockets of his shorts when she was doing the wash. I only found the first couple after taking some trimming to the tip. After taken the branches out I found 2 in the back of the ute, easy to see against the white paint. Impossible to find in the bushes green branches so now I leave the trimming to dry to brown on the ground before taking them to the tip. I know there both too small for a feed but it's good to have a few of the natives left on a suburban yard and it's great to see the cane toads beaten in the breeding stakes. Regards dave |
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Post by chrisg on Apr 19, 2015 18:13:28 GMT 10
 Too right... Had a bit of a breeding programme going on WA natives my last place, we don't, yet, have a cane toad problem but they are in the North of the State. Trying to decide if to put a pond or two in here, it's a rental and we may not be staying, plus we are in an area of seemingly very raucous native birds that much as I like them around I really do not want to be breeding happy little frogs to feed them. Very, very interesting about the ponds being elevated keeping the cane mongrels out. If here or next place I put in some ponds will be bearing that in mind Cheers |
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Post by smokey on Apr 19, 2015 18:16:53 GMT 10
Nice one mate, There is a healthy population of green and sedge frogs around my place. There is a acre sized dam next door and they get kind of rowdy during summer nights. They keep overnight visitors awake all night but I can't sleep without there singing During summer, Id easily dispatch 100 cane toads per night so there is also a battle going on here as well. |
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Post by chrisg on Apr 19, 2015 18:33:50 GMT 10
I've always sort of wondered but never asked, what the hell do you do with all those ugly corpses?
Cheers
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Post by smokey on Apr 19, 2015 18:43:24 GMT 10
depends, I've an old No1 driver club for golf practice into the Forrest if I dispatch them down that way.
If around the house? I hunt on Wednesday nights and into the bin for the Garbo next morning.
Futile exercise really, I keep killing them and they keep charging the barb wire so to speak.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 19:16:35 GMT 10
Gday
I think it's a battle that nature seems to be winning with the toads. I don't seem to get the chance as often now to run them over as often as I used to. The creek at the bottom of the hill was a perfect spot to do a little toad squashing.
There's a certain art to taking out a toad with a motor vehicle. If you aim for them, you have lost, they just hop out of the way. Pretend your not going for them and then at the last min swing the wheel over, get that pop under the tire. Yes another job done well.
The local crows ( yes Aust natives. Greater eastern raven) have it figured out. If they come across a toad they sit in the telegraph posts and wait till you drive by. Then drop the toad on the road. Off course you'll run over it.
Result one one dead and flat toad. They then fly down flip the carcass over over and eat the toad from the bottom where the poison glands are not.
Regards dave
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Post by smokey on Apr 19, 2015 19:31:07 GMT 10
LOL, Ahh yes, Took me a while to learn that driving skill after moving from Sydney. Where I come from you would be pulled over for erratic driving not keeping control. Up here even the cops do it.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 21:08:57 GMT 10
depends, I've an old No1 driver club for golf practice into the Forrest if I dispatch them down that way. If around the house? I hunt on Wednesday nights and into the bin for the Garbo next morning. Futile exercise really, I keep killing them and they keep charging the barb wire so to speak. G'day I live on the old 1/4 acre block and the 1 wood isn't the tool of choice. I prefer the 6 iron. A 1 means a low short trajectory to the fence. With a 6 iron you get to see the toad in full tratjectory before it contacts the fence. Both my kids are pretty good golfers as they learnt the basics "toad busting" the most important thing is "to keep your eye on the toad" regards Dave PS .... Due to a hand injure my toad busting days are over. My wife however armed with a pr of guns and roses gumboots and a sqirt bottle of detole accounts for a few. |
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Post by smokey on Apr 19, 2015 21:22:20 GMT 10
 Funny, I have no fence so getting thirty meters in the point blank range sees the toad six feet up with limbs outstretched flying through the air at tee off speed seems to give me just as much fun as your sick fence splat "Thing" 
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Post by 420kev on Apr 20, 2015 4:05:20 GMT 10
now this is one of the bestest things about living up in the clouds.
.............toooo bloody cold for tooo bloody long...........
they just don't like it.......bloody tourists.
kevin
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Post by shayneh2006 on Apr 20, 2015 7:43:28 GMT 10
This thread has made me laugh  And aint it coincidental........ .....The old man dropped over yesterday on his way back from the local flea market, and handed over a gift, to be placed in my bar that he scored while he was there and it was.... A bloody taxidermed Cane Toad holding a mini bottle of booze. I couldnt believe it   Shayne |
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Post by Bentley on Apr 20, 2015 9:22:55 GMT 10
I would think a 6 or 7 would be the one!
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Funny, I have no fence so getting thirty meters in the point blank range sees the toad six feet up with limbs outstretched flying through the air at tee off speed seems to give me just as much fun as your sick fence splat "Thing" 
