Monday 1st February - another kind of road-kill

It has been raining most days for the last 3 weeks... very, very unusual for Hawke's Bay summer... the countryside is a very unseasonal green! We have just had six inches of rain in the last 36 hours! Lakes and new streams abound! The wet weather and the warm temperatures has resulted in an explosion in the frog population. They are everywhere.

The usual candidates for road-kill here are possums and rabbits. On the way home from Taradale last night, J remarked that with dozens of frogs jumping all over the road, the frogs were a new kind of road-kill.