I is for Inquisitive #AlphabetPhoto

little toad

I is for inquisitive. Every year, around the summer solstice, our garden is invaded by tiny toadlets. Most are en route somewhere else. A few find a welcoming corner of our garden and stay. Some take a wrong turning and end up in our kitchen, which we call home.

It’s not unknown to find two big eyes peeping out from under a kitchen unit. A slightly confused toadlet, tangled in a dust bunny, losing it’s way again. They stop there, taking it all in, with the air of an inquisitive tourist in the bewildering world of the humans.

The children are just as inquisitive about the invaders. The toadlets are small . Smaller than a 5p piece. They can leap, although given the choice they prefer to walk. When the lawns are being cut, the children run about the grass searching for toadlets and transferring them to safe zones. Where they can watch the baby toads disappear into the long grass.

I have no idea who is more inquisitive. The invading toadlets or the imaginative children?

Joining in with Charly’s fun #AlphabetPhoto linky for week 9. Have you posted an “I”?

28 comments

    1. He’s in the hand of one of the children, so you can see just how small he really is. Once had a line of five of them, sitting on the step watching me work in our study. They had crept under the door to escape a downpour and found me. Goodness only knows what they thought!

    1. All toadlets are very quickly taken outside. Bad enough trying to avoid treading on them outside, let alone inside!

  1. Oh my goodness, they are tiny! I would love to witness that, never mind the children 🙂 #alphabetphoto

    1. Always wonder if the novelty will wear off one year, but each time the children love to see the toadlets. Their friends love seeing them too.

    1. Lovely to find, aren’t they? Where there is one, they’ll be a dozen more behind. On some days we can barely step out of the back door, for fear of squashing them.

    1. They do get settled on your hand. Sometimes, the children have to gently push them off, when they reach the long grass. Reluctant to leave.

  2. Oh my goodness that’s absolutely incredible!!! I’ve never seen these before and how wonderful to have captured this photograph with the fingers showing how teeny tiny it is. Such amazing detail. Thank you so much for sharing with #alphabetphoto

    1. They are very tiny. The nearest pond is a couple or so hundred metres away, so I do wonder if they come from a nearer water source, that I don’t know about. I can’t believe that they are long fledged hatched hopped out of the pond.

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