The general term is a photométéore, which would include rainbows (I rather like this word, even if it is French and not English.) The phenomenon is rather rare and is associated with light being reflected by particles (water?) suspended on the surface of the clouds. Surprisingly, they sent us a beautiful reply explaining the phenomena. Kourosh took photographs on his phone too and sent them to Meteo France. I quickly took a photograph of the sky above our neighbour Annie’s house for her. We knocked on the door of our neighbours opposite and brought them outside to see the sky. We were sitting outside having lunch yesterday when we noticed beautiful colours in the sky above our olive tree. I do not expect to find any slugs in the garden now! They have chosen a good time to enter the garden because it is warm and damp, which sounds perfect for baby toads. Seemingly, once the toads leave the water they only return eventually to breed. The other tadpoles may just be late developers. However, it is possible there were other spawning events before or after that date. In fact, all around the pool you can see baby toads, despite there still being tadpoles in the pool. They still like to keep together and there are plenty of damp places around the pool under the stones.
Now we are frightened to go near the pond in case we stand on them! I went to get a little bit of netting to help them climb out the plastic pond more easily but I need not have bothered as they were already on the stones surrounding the pond and in the grass. Today I realised he was not alone and a group of them were becoming more adventuresome and coming right out of the water to use their newly developed lungs. Taking a picture was non too easy as he was quite frisky. Yesterday we saw our first baby toad – almost adult, without a tail.
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