All this week, it has been dusk or dark when I get home from work. On Monday, as I drove up the driveway towards the carport, I saw something....toadlike...in front of the carport. I stopped just short of what could have also been a leaf (with my terrible eyesight) and I saw a smiling toad right in my path. I shooed him to the the grass, towards the pond. What a nice greeting, I thought. Tuesday, same thing, this time, the toad was facing me as I drove up and seemed to stare into my headlights. Again, I stopped the car, and walked the toad to the side of the driveway, then quickly drove into the carport. Today -- there were two little frogs in the driveway. Again, I got out of the car and shooed them away. I recognized these two guys as the two young toads who like to hang out in the pond. One of them is slightly yellowish and skinny. A few minutes later, I came out with a flashlight and there was the yellow toad right back in the middle of the driveway. Knowing that my husband would be driving down the driveway soon, I kept watch and made sure that the toads wouldn't get squished by my husband's car.
This wasn't the first time I've seen toads in the road. About six months ago, I got a phone call. "Steph, move your toad." I came outside and there was my husband, in his car, in front of Ulysses (the giant wise toad who I haven't seen for awhile) who was sitting in the middle of the carport right in the car's path. I walked with Ulysses and escorted him as he slowly hopped back to the garden and the pond.
Why are the toads deciding that they want to hang out in the street? Bad place for toads!!! I confess that two years ago, I ran over a frog in the driveway at night. He hopped right in my path and I felt just terrible. I hate hate hate finding flat frogs in the street. Why? Are they attracted to the warmth of the pavement as the weather starts to get cooler? Are they hunting on the street? I don't see bugs on the street. Frogs are confusing. Can someone please tell me why the toads are on the roads in the Fall?
This wasn't the first time I've seen toads in the road. About six months ago, I got a phone call. "Steph, move your toad." I came outside and there was my husband, in his car, in front of Ulysses (the giant wise toad who I haven't seen for awhile) who was sitting in the middle of the carport right in the car's path. I walked with Ulysses and escorted him as he slowly hopped back to the garden and the pond.
Why are the toads deciding that they want to hang out in the street? Bad place for toads!!! I confess that two years ago, I ran over a frog in the driveway at night. He hopped right in my path and I felt just terrible. I hate hate hate finding flat frogs in the street. Why? Are they attracted to the warmth of the pavement as the weather starts to get cooler? Are they hunting on the street? I don't see bugs on the street. Frogs are confusing. Can someone please tell me why the toads are on the roads in the Fall?
This post just makes my day and makes me feel hopeful about all of humanity again! Your husband reminds me of my husband catching the big tarantula in our garage (even though tarantulas make him squicky) and putting him in a safety bucket so I wouldn't accidentally squish him (the tarantula not my husband)when I drove in. We later found a nice section of the garden in which to release him.
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