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Ready to get detecting?Track down frogs, toads and newts!

Look for clumps of frogspawn, strings of toadspawn, and individual newt eggs.

Tadpole (toad tadpole)

See them: April–July

Toadspawn

See it: March–May

Frog

See them: All year round

Froglet

See them: June–September

Toad

See them: All year round

Newt Eggs

See them: February–March

Frogspawn

See it: January–March

Newt

See them: All year roundTadpole (newt tadpole)

See them: March–April

Tadpoles (frog tadpoles)

See them: March–May

Eft or newtlet

See them: May–July

Toadlet

See them: July–October

Frog tadpoles

look speckled,

toad tadpoles

are black.

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