Toads At Home

As avid followers will know, at the beginning of May we put a box in the ground in which to put the earth connection for our electrical supply.  Since the picture was taken we have put a lid on it so that it looks like a square manhole.  Nothing exciting there.

As we walked past the box this morning though a little head popped out of the cutout that acts as a handle.  "There can't be anything living in there", exclaimed Mrs Riotlife as I lifted the lid to show two toads.  One of them was small, dark and almost smooth so we think that he was very young, while the other was much more toady; brown, warty, baggy and about twice as big.

It is incredible that they can get in and out of the hole as it is about a foot deep with vertical concrete sides. Though having watched them climbing fence posts in the past we know they are very good at scaling vertical surfaces.  It is excellent that they have found somewhere safe to live as too often they live somewhere that is not safe from us, like under the car wheels.