Fowler's Toads in Provincetown 05/26/26

Fowler's Toads at the Province Lands Visitors Center, Provincetown 05/26/26 #FowlersToad #Toad #Provincetown #NaturePhotography #CapeCod

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A toad hanging out in one of the large planting bags on the deck!

#toad #gardening

fun times in the forest: last night i heard some scrambling under the bed and thought "if this is a rat, then all 3 of these cats are useless because this is the bedroom - our most 'home-base' space - and it should therefore be the least likely to have a rat."

i thought i heard it scrambling toward the cat food bowl which is next to the bed. so i rolled over, turned on my phone flashlight, and was face to face with THE biggest cane toad i've ever seen. possibly it seemed bigger because it was <1 foot from my face and illuminated in the flashlight and i wasn't expecting it at all 😆. it was bigger than the toad that was using the cat water as a personal chillout pool last month (this one would not have fit in the cat water bowl), or perhaps it was that same one, but grown substantially since then!

anyway, after i composed myself, i blocked off its path back under the bed with a book, got my garden gloves and a bucket, and put it in the bucket (i could barely hold it in a single hand, it was so big). these guys don't have much of a defensive strategy aside from "be still, sit facing a corner, and hope you are mistaken for a rock", so they don't really try to escape too much. i tossed it in my azolla pond (where it should be much happier than under my bed). really hope the sucker doesn't try to come back.

fun/unfun fact: they were introduced to hawai'i because of their 'voracious appetite', as pest control. i really should make a zine highlighting at least a handful of the invasive species that were *deliberately* introduced to the island.

anyway, the pic doesn't really do it justice, but there ya go.

#herps #toad #hawaii #offgrid #JungleLife

I don't know why, but now many frogs, both adults and children, like to come into my house, jumping here and there. As long as they don't touch me, it's fine.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #frog #frogs #toad #toads #animal #animals #house #myhouse #home #myhome

Finalmente assisti a The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Super Mario Galaxy: O Filme) e, como eu esperava, amei o filme. Assim como o primeiro, é uma carta de amor para os fãs do bigodudo (e um pouquinho mais).

A única coisa que eu gostaria de destacar é que esse filme começa a deixar de ser o universo do Mario e passa a se tornar o universo da Nintendo, e eu adoro isso.

#TheSuperMarioGalaxyMovie #SuperMarioGalaxyOFilme #Mario #Luigi #Peach #Toad #Yoshi #Rosalina #FoxMcCloud #Nintendo