One lonely Frog ....?

Hi,

Have had a small pond in the garden for many years and always had lots of frogs and toads spawning in spring, but this year there is just one solitary frog, croaking away for the last 2 weeks but no sign of any others ??

I've had one of the anti cat water jet sprayers for that last three year and no signs of any cat mess or footprints in the garden and there have not been any changes in the surrounding gardens to stop the frogs coming in.

Is this just my pond or something natural that others are experiencing ?

 

The frog population in my pond has dropped off drastically in the last three years.
Not sure why, but I was finding quite a few dead ones for a while.

Had maybe 4 clumps of spawn this year, for years the pond was totally full of spawn from feb onwards but not anymore.

Picture from 2010.

 

Hmmm, perhaps a natural downturn...?

Also used to have so much spawn I had to remove some as it was blocking everything up.

About 10 years ago we had what I think is a case of Red Leg, kept finding dozens of dead ones lying all over the garden.

The population slowly recovered in the following years, but never seen it down to this poor single frog .. keeps looking at me as if to say what wrong with my croaker !

 

Frogs are on the up here, but they are being run over on the road