Friday, September 05, 2008
Toads in a bucket! As the backhoe scrapes the ground at the site I'm working on, occasionally it cuts into a toad hole and out pops a toad (or in one case, two!). I catch them and put them in a bucket. Today I found six. It is amazing that they aren't squashed by the backhoe bucket.
One, two, three, four, five.
After catching the two from one hole, the backhoe operator Dave scraped again and pulled up the dirt. I was looking into the bucket and heard him shout out, "Oh shit!"
I turned and there dangling from his bucket was one long snake. It was black with thin blueish-black stripes. About three feet long. It too had escaped unhurt and slithered out of the dirt and dropped onto the backdirt pile. I admit it, when I first saw it I screamed like a girl. It was that big. It slithered over the pile of dirt and went off into the weeds, looking for a new home.
The biggest toad.
I brought six toads home and put them into my garden. I think they have already burrowed into the ground. I need to do a little research to find out what their natural history is like, so I don't harm them with the plants in that area.
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One, two, three, four, five.
After catching the two from one hole, the backhoe operator Dave scraped again and pulled up the dirt. I was looking into the bucket and heard him shout out, "Oh shit!"
I turned and there dangling from his bucket was one long snake. It was black with thin blueish-black stripes. About three feet long. It too had escaped unhurt and slithered out of the dirt and dropped onto the backdirt pile. I admit it, when I first saw it I screamed like a girl. It was that big. It slithered over the pile of dirt and went off into the weeds, looking for a new home.
The biggest toad.
I brought six toads home and put them into my garden. I think they have already burrowed into the ground. I need to do a little research to find out what their natural history is like, so I don't harm them with the plants in that area.
