Tag: toads

• What frog sounds like this?

  

  Or is it a toad? It can’t all be beautiful pictures. Though let us stop for a moment to admire the chickens in the weeds. Every now and then we have to listen! And you know I love recording sounds. I was out on my deck late last night recording these frog sounds. Or are…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  June 1, 2023

  Sustainable farming

  featured, frogs, toads

• Toads Do Not Become Princes you Know

  

  But I have seen a lot of princes become toads. This toad was calmly waking across the bottom step of the verandah before seeing us and hopping (literally) back into the bed of leaves. He is an American toad (Anaxyrus americanus). Very common. And so delightful. He may even have been hibernating there. (I leave…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 7, 2023

  Photography, thekitchensgarden

  AmericanToads, Anaxyrus americanus, Illinois, toads

• The Eyes of a Toad

  

  Look who introduced himself to me in the glasshouse yesterday. A Glasshouse Toad with very determined eyes.  I left him in there – the cold is coming back soon and he has come out of his hibernation – better he stays in the glasshouse and hunts for bugs in there until it warms up for good. I brought…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  March 15, 2016

  Farming, Life, Photography

  Black Spanish Turkeys, cows, farming, glasshouse, peacocks tail, peahens, toads

• The Year of the Toad

  

  I have lived out here on the prairies of Illinois for about nine years now. Not long. But in all that time I have never seen so many toads. They are on the road, in the ditches, in the gardens, everywhere. On my daily walk to the West Barn and back I search the path…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 6, 2015

  Farming, Life, Photography

  cows, dogs, farming, toads, turkeys