Remember the Green Cross Toad!
Local toads are to be helped across a busy road at Wiremill Dam as part of a national campaign to help save the Common Toad from disappearing in the region.
Volunteers from Friends of the Porter Valley are gearing up to descend on the site at any moment between now and the end of March on a couple of damp evenings as it gets dusk, and through the night. On the first main night alone, these hardy souls will help carry the hapless amphibians over the busy road to help the toads as they move towards their ancestral breeding pond in Wiremill Dam following a spell of milder spring weather.
Friends of Porter Valley members, Jen Creaghan and her husband Denis are the first to know when the toads make their bid for freedom, because their house sits right on the breeding route of about a thousand toads of all shapes and sizes. For about three days, they have to leave their drive very carefully, waving a flashlight in front of the car, lest their car tyres should tragically reduce the numbers even further!
