We’ve added a toad to our outdoor menagerie.  The neighbor’s son presented him to us yesterday.  He feels bad that our frogs are gone and thought he had one for us.  I had to explain the difference between frogs and toads to him.  However, I am delighted to have a voracious bug eater around again.

     It won’t take him long to grow larger.  With the frogs gone we do have more bugs about.  Mr. Toadamus should eat well if he sticks around.  

     Several years ago, I brought home two that DH caught.  They didn’t stick around I no sooner let them go than they packed up and headed north whistling as they went on their way.  I guess they considered the frogs too much competition at the time.

     I’m still hoping that the neighbor’s son will come across some native frogs and bring them home to us.  They’d stay much smaller than the bullfrogs and might not go walk about as the bullfrogs did when the large bugs got scarce and the birds refused to land here after they saw others become bullfrog meals.

     The little native frogs will also chow down on mosquitoes, which the bullfrogs considered too small to bother eating.