Friendly Toad

I live in a suburban corner house surrounded by concrete paving and wooden fence panels. With just a small lawn and no pond, you'd be forgiven if you assumed our garden to not exactly be ideal habitat for amphibians. Certainly I would have thought so; but in fact the back yard regularly attracts toads like this individual that I photographed earlier in the year. Our garden might be quite small but we do have plenty of slugs and snails. I can only think that the toads therefore use it for fine dining on the abundant and no doubt nutritious "escargots". This particular individual was found hiding under my bin.


After a few minutes of coaxing, the toad finally played ball having his portrait taken on a plant pot. He looks especially relaxed in the final shot, resting his arm on a conveniently placed twig.