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This is a picture of an American Toad on the South Tract of the Patuxent Research Refuge near Laurel, Maryland.
Laurel Quad
Male toad and female underneath. Not mating, this is called amplexus. The male clings on to the female so he gets first dibs on egg fertilisation honours. Males sometimes grab other males. If it croaks they let it go! The male was croaking joyously - the female was less enthusiastic............
For those of you who care: I used a Sigma 100mm f2.8 macro with a ring flash. I set up the camera for f9.0 with ISO200. I underexposed 2/3 of a stop as well to get a subtle fill effect without getting a dark background.
Found this little guy in the garden yesterday he is about 2cm and was happy to sit on my finger and have his photo taken.(even though he looks grumpy) :-)
While out with my camera one night in Florida, I came upon a this small toad that was sitting on the top rail of a metal fence at the hotel I was at.
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Toads are terrestrial frogs with dry, warty skin and smaller hind legs for walking instead of hopping. This little guy was found inside an abandoned train tracks.
Pennypack Ecological Trust
May 13, 2014
HAd a chance to photgraph Toads as they are just starting to come back to ponds up here in North Scotland. So much easier to approach than frogs. One wanted to crawl into my lens hood!
My first encounter with this colony was last Thursday - 9-4-2015 - about 50 animals cavorting at one spawning site. I went back on the Friday and there were considerably fewer - by Sunday all the action was over. All that was left was the spawn and some marauding common newts. In my experience common frogs keep going for about 10-12 days.
That's how you have to walk around the field margins currently with all these gorgeous little toadlets around!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
French postcard by Imp. Georges Lang, Paris, offered by Chocolats Tobler. Image: Walt Disney.
Mr. Toad is one of the lead characters in Disney's animated feature The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, 1949). The film is composed of two segments based on the stories of 'The Wind in the Willows' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', respectively. It is the eleventh animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon as well as the last of the 'package films' produced by Disney until The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1977. The film won a Golden Globe Award for the Best Color Cinematography in 1950.
The adventures of Mr. Toad is based on Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows'. In this story, the charismatic J. Thaddeus Toad, Esq., the happy-go-lucky upper-class proprietor of Toad Hall who believes in fun and adventure, has built a great deal of debt from disregarding the financial responsibilities of his insatiable love for transportation vehicles, such as the newfangled motor car. His friends, Mole, Water Rat, and Angus MacBadger try to help him when his mania leads to the loss of the deed to Toad Hall and a charge of car theft. Toad is thrown in jail but Toad's loyal horse Cyril Proudbottom pays a visit and inspires him to escape, which he does, only to learn that Winkie, the tavernkeeper and the weasels have taken over Toad Hall. With his friends, Toad redeems his good name by recovering the deed to the estate. Toad promises to reform until he eyes a 1908 biplane.
During the 1940s, much of Disney's feature output was made up of so-called "package films". Beginning with Saludos Amigos in 1943, Disney ceased making feature films with a single narrative, due to the higher costs for such films, as well as the drain on the studio's resources caused by World War II, even though almost all of these package films were fairly successful. Instead, Disney features would have two or more stories linked together through a variety of means. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad was the last of these "package" films, and Disney returned to single narrative features with 1950's Cinderella. For many years following its original release, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad was not available for viewing in its original form. The two segments had been split up by Disney in the 1950s and were usually seen as individual items. When first released on home video, the Ichabod segment was released as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Toad segment as The Wind in the Willows, taking their names from the original stories.
Source: Disney Wiki and IMDb.
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Backyard buddy. Local frog and toad populations seem to be on the upswing and I have to be very vigilant when lifting some of the many rocks, boulders and bricks in my yard to avoid harming them. This one was a bit perturbed when I raised a bolder to expose him :)
I'm starting to get a little stir crazy being cooped up in the house waiting for spring to get here, so to help pass the time I looked through some of my old photos. This one of a American Toad (Bufo americanus) caught my eye, toads are common in the woods in Wisconsin but I always enjoy seeing them and am looking forward to seeing more once spring finally gets here.
Hi! Making photos and being on Flickr has not been in my life over the last period. I hope I will be able to pick it up some, because I like it. I guess we will find out.
Anyway, when I was cleaning up the little ramshackle shed that I have (I want to tear it down because the roof contains asbestos), I found out I disturbed the life of these toads (determination?). I guess this is one species and man and woman or young and adult.
By the way, I got the scare of my life, because I disturbed a nest of mice while looking at these toads, they almost jumped in my face. I screamed like a girl...