Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Birds of the mid-Atlantic (and other critters too), 2 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Maybe 3 years ago--I had a plant in a 6" clay pot.
I would come out--and the soil would be all out--like in donner's picture.

I was like--"Those squirrels just keep on digging in my pots!"
So--I would put the soil back to keep my plant happy. And I would dig in
the pot with my shovel to get all the soil back in,

Next day--same thing--all over again. So, I decided to dump the soil out
so I can re-pot the plant properly. YIKES! There was a big toad in the
bottom of the pot! How it got in and out of the pot --I do not know--as I would
stick my shovel in there and did not feel anything??? I could have killed it.....
Toads would be welcome here, but I have, very seldom, seen any.

Once! I had this big, orange toad that lived for a couple days on my concrete
steps going into the basement. I even fed it some slugs. Then he disappeared--
came back once--a couple days later--and was gone again--forever....
I was a beauty--if you can call a toad "beautiful"......!

1--My orange speckled toad---it it's favorite corner on the steps -cool and damp.
Contemplating a slug I offered. When it decided to eat it--his tongue would
come out in a flash and the toad was gone! it took less than one second.

2--I even built it a "house" hoping he/she would hang around....NOPE!
Just checked it out and decided to live somewhere else.

G.