Thursday, July 7, 2016

Swampy Night Visitor

It's a pretty swampy night here in the NY Metro Area... after a real scorcher of a day, it's still 73 degrees Fahrenheit (22.7 Celsius) out and humid to boot. Scattered thunderstorms dumped a considerable amount of rain on my worksite. Yeah, it's pretty dank and swampy, perfect weather for an amphibious visitor:




This is a handsome American toad(Anaxyrus americanus), sitting on the 'safety' painting on the edge of the front steps. We have a lot of toads on site, much to my delight. Pretty soon, we should have this year's baby toads emerging from the pond. We tend to get them a little later than West Virginia does.

3 comments:

M. Bouffant said...

BY ORDER OF P.D.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

I've loaded up on tiny toad pics, big time.

I even tried to get 7 of them to "toe the line."

Got 4 in the pic!
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Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

BY ORDER OF P.D.

HANX!

I've loaded up on tiny toad pics, big time.

Awesome, they do have that cuteness factor... I have to start looking for the little ones.