Last summer it was hummingbirds, this year it's brown toads.

(that's toads, not turds)

This little creature has been hiding/living/quarantining under a patio downspout splash block. Since I lift the blocks up to mow around them, I have to make sure he scoots about 5' to his right to hide in a dense mint garden we have outside our back patio door.

There's so little nomenclature on toad schooling, but I still feel like he understands that I lift the block, shoo him into the mint forest, then replace the block so he can go home.

Once I've mowed and have replaced the block he sneaks back out and gets under the block again. This has been going on for over a month.

This sequence of pix gives me an opportunity to share my toad story with all you other devoted amphibiophiles. Enjoy!

[Post edited by PhotoHokieNC at 08/08/2020 11:44AM]

Posted: 08/08/2020 at 11:40AM

Last summer it was hummingbirds, this year it's brown toads. -- PhotoHokieNC 08/08/2020 11:40AM

Toads have no teeth so I know nothing about them. Frogs now are a -- DonHo-kieHi 08/09/2020 07:53AM

Plunk your magic twanger ! -- PhotoHokieNC 08/09/2020 07:58AM

Wowzaa, I led a deprived childhood and never saw that. I'm not sure that -- DonHo-kieHi 08/09/2020 08:06AM

Next on the biblical plague list: locusts. Don't waste ur time on the yard. ** -- MikeVT85 08/08/2020 2:23PM

Frogs were the 2nd plague Moses called down upon Egypt. ** -- Late 80s Hokie 08/08/2020 2:00PM

Stay away from Memphis. ** -- KCHokie2 08/08/2020 9:31PM

Damn. And we’re at the epicenter. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/08/2020 2:17PM

For a while I thought it was a bunny rabbit year, lighting bugs... -- `lag 08/08/2020 1:32PM

We have a lot of sweat bees. I don’t remember having this many -- corvt2000 08/08/2020 10:02PM

We have a solitary bunny. Possibly a wild runaway. -- PhotoHokieNC 08/08/2020 1:43PM

I'm going to bet that your dog is NOT going to catch a rabbit. Our dog is -- Late 80s Hokie 08/08/2020 2:20PM

Need a beagle to run a rabbit to ground ** -- EDGEMAN 08/08/2020 2:23PM

Yeah, we keep telling him that. To no avail. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/08/2020 2:22PM

Grasshoppers for us. More than I ever remember. ** -- Stork 08/08/2020 1:10PM

Voles for us 😩 ** -- B777Fr8Dog 08/08/2020 1:22PM

We’ll vole for whoever we like, thank you. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/08/2020 1:44PM

I hate those guys! ** -- EDGEMAN 08/08/2020 1:33PM

Vols too ** -- B777Fr8Dog 08/08/2020 4:01PM

I've found a little green frog twice under the lid of my blue recycle bin -- EDGEMAN 08/08/2020 1:07PM

I've ordered some but on backorder ** -- TomTurkey 08/08/2020 12:52PM

Same here Photo! We have one next to the carport...we look out for 'em. ** -- Major Kong 08/08/2020 12:03PM

Amphibipals! ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/08/2020 12:15PM

Last summer it was hummingbirds, this year it's brown toads.

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