Dead Frogs Everywhere

Amphibian guts galore - I seem to have stumbled across a crime scene, stretched over 50m of road.
(Nasty picture warning - avoid if squeamish!)

Dead frogs - some flattened, some burst, some frozen, mid-movement, cause of death unknown. It seems early in the year to spawn - I thought it would be too cold for for them. But no, they seem to have been making their way towards the pond in a nearby quarry. Out of the ten that I find, maybe three are flattened, passing cars. It's the others that intrigue me - their tiny fingers raised in some last melodramatic plea, spawn piled on the tarmacadam alongside.

What do I do? I take photographs.

- Dave

probably rained down

Here in Indiana, there is a statre park that straddles a fairly major roadway. Every spring frogs mate in the lakes on either side of the roadway and often attempt en masse to cross the road, apparently to mate with the hotter frogs across the way. The carnage looks very much like your pics.

Thanks, that cheered me up a bit.

Maybe Dennis Hopper was in the area...

"Small Frogs Killed on the Highway" [James Wright]

Still,
I would leap too
Into the light,
If I had the chance.
It is everything, the wet green stalk of the field
On the other side of the road.
They crouch there, too, faltering in terror
And take strange wing. Many
Of the dead never moved, but many
Of the dead are alive forever in the split second
Auto headlights more sudden
Than their drivers know.
The drivers burrow backwards into dank pools
Where nothing begets
Nothing.

Across the road, tadpoles are dancing
On the quarter thumbnail
Of the moon. They can't see,
Not Yet.

dead frogs,
dead frogs,
lying dead on the road,
dead frogs,
dead frogs,
yet not a single toad.

This is the BBC: Mystery of German exploding toads

Coast to coast
day to day
friends and family
but no one cares no not for frogs
they kill them day and night
some try to fight for lives
for dreams
for everything it would seem
but none prevail on the lonely highway rails.

Poor little frog
was trying to lay eggs
I like them better
when i'm dining on their legs

this is very emotional for me...... I knew that frog ...... he was brave ....... oh so brave ...
sniff..sniff...sniff.........oh well if u think i am crying i am actually sniffing weed