Many little toads.

(mary holland, July 17, 2013)

July 25. 

Many little toads about.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1855

See July 25, 1854 ("See in woods a toad, dead-leaf color with black spots.") See also  July 12, 1852 ("I go to walk at twilight, — at the same time that toads go to their walks, and are seen hopping about the sidewalks or the pump"); July 17, 1853 ("Young toads not half an inch long at Walden shore."); July 17, 1856 (“I see many young toads hopping about on that bared ground amid the thin weeds, not more than five eighths to three quarters of an inch long.”)  See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, Midsummer Toads;  Northland Nature: Tiny toad time in late July;  WHAT ARE THESE TINY TOADS? ("The tadpoles of many species of the genus Bufo (what most people consider to be the “true toads”) metamorphose at a very small size, often all at once, and then disperse. If you live near a pond or lake or stream where the tadpoles are common, you might all of a sudden see dozens or even hundreds of these tiny toadlets for a few days, and after that, see them only occasionally.); toadlets dispersing (July 17, 2013)