Diseased frog, causing red eye?

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We had an exceptionally bad year for frogs and toads at our local pond. Perhaps it was because of the very long and unusually cold winter. Another thing that was odd was that many of the frogs seemed ill. Have a look at the eyes of the first one. On the back of the second one with the crow there are two out growths, this poor frog jumped past me in daylight, not uncommon after sitting still for a while but perhaps it was not well, especially as it got picked of by the crow about 5 mins afterwards. If you look very closely you can see the odd bits on the back. They look like damage from being eaten by the crow. However they were easier to see when it went past me before the crow got it. I could not tell what they were and thought it was just unusual that it had two bits of odd coloured vegitation on its back, but seeing the odd eyes of the other frog made me wonder.

Is is probably all just coincedence (the eyes and the back certainly) but does anyone know if there any diseases that cause these types of oddities? Possibly something like Leucochloridium paradoxum as the behaviour of the frog with the red eye was very odd.

Googling it came up with a lot of tree frogs but nothing else so probably just coincidence?

Frog with red eye

Ex frog with stuff on back, that hopped past me 5 mins before this.

One of the fate of many of the frogs in our pond.

Mating season appears to be a distressfully is a hard time for frogs.

tim

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