Was cleaning oak leaves out of one of our window boxes when doing so revealed a stone, rather slivery in appearance. Strange, I thought, I've only put potting soil in the box in the past so how did a stone get there?
Looked closer and found it wasn't a stone, but a toad, immobile. That's even stranger, I thought--how the hell did a toad get there as the window box is 8 feet or so off the ground. Dropped by a bird, maybe, and finding refuge under the leaves?
Anyway, I cleaned out the leaves, realizing the toad would then have no hiding place from hawks or whatever and no cover from the sun, which is getting stronger. So I got an empty plastic seedling pot and put it on its side in the window box.
An hour later the toad had retreated to the pot, so I could put my hand over the top and carry toad and pot outside and release it.
It turns out toads of various kinds can climb, some are tree toads and some just plain garden toads.
Virginia even has a society devoted to amphibians.
I'm going to say my "toad" is this guy:
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