Last
year during this time we received a surprise guest (toad) in the bucket that
left outside the home, in our earlier resident opposite to Sishya School.
Seeing a toad or frog is not a surprise thing but the condition of the weather
could make I guess. Summer in Chennai usually pick up in March, although it
sense earlier this year, it was approximately same last year when we found a
toad lonely floating in a bucked with least water left at the bottom.
I was in
wonder where the toad would have come from since the weather was very hot and
wasn’t wet anywhere near and though I guess it must be a great survivor to come
to quench the thirst and couldn’t leap out because of less water at bottom. The
toad was floating in the water, leisurely stretching all the limbs and eyelids
kept closed and open causes a sense of sleepiness. The toad spotted in black
has beautiful texture/traces in brownish and yellowish and nice black curves
around eyelids.
The toad
commonly called as Asian common toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) and also
known as black-spectacled, common Sunda and Javanese toad, is probably a
complex of more than once toad species that is widely distributed in South and
Southeast Asia. The amphibian is a
lethargic timid animal that moves about with deliberate hops from place to
another, comes out after sunset and frequents mostly the human habitations
(where it gather under street lamps) to feed on photopilic insects.
(source of info: wiki)
