Yesterday we heard a frog in the garden, but it went quite when Donné looked around for it. Then last night, this frog (and friends) get really loud…loud like monkeys in the garden….loud enough to disturb sleep.

This morning I spotted a frog in the pool and fished it out with the net. Looking at it, it looked more like a toad, and after a brief internet search about noisy toads, it turns out that this is a Raucous toad – which is very aptly named.

The Raucous toad from our pool (one of the two I fished out), around about the length of a palm

They really do make quite a bit of noise (which fortunately only seems to be during the breeding season), and you can get an idea of what they sound like by listening to this toady sound file.