A Plague of Frogs

 A swarm of tiny frogs

An infestation

An invasion 

However you put it, we've got it

It's impossible to take a decent picture. They're only about the size of an olive, almost the same colour as the tarseal and leap all over the place when I get close enough for a photo. 

The cats don't seem at all interested in them and neither do the seagulls but the swarms in the middle of the road won't live long.  We couldn't avoid driving over them

This is a photo of one taken by our neighbour Georgia

There are thousands and thousands of them hopping all over the roads around us. Another few thousands squashed on the road.

We've never seen anything like it.  

Frogs lay thousands of eggs and 'very heavy rain followed by warm weather speeds up the development of the tadpoles and forces them into a synchronised boom'.  They must have spawned down on the flooded plateau and with this warm weather have suddenly turned from tadpoles to frogs, or toads in their thousands

In some countries it is believed that swarms of frogs are a warning of earthquakes.  However, 'scientific analysis has shown that mass migrations of tiny frogs in spring are not related to earthquakes'.  Lets hope that scientific analysis is correct