More Skimmer Toads!

I decided I needed to be checking the skimmer more often based on the latest discovery of the 2 baby toads found on Tuesday.  To that end on Wednesday morning I removed the lid and peered into the swirling water that was littered with debris.  Besides a little foam and a bunch of crud I didn't see anything.  I decided to remove the skimmer basket and search inside the skimmer itself.

And there, right at the bottom of the skimmer basket, was the tiniest toad I've see yet.  Slightly smaller than the one I retrieved on Tuesday.   This little guy was submerged and hang'n on to the bottom of the skimmer.  At first I thought he was dead... well, actually, at first I thought it was a small slug... but when I tipped the basket he crawled uphill.  WOW... another one. 

I'm no longer amazed... I'm what ever is beyond amazed.  These little creatures keep showing up when so many of their brothers didn't make it.  How in the world did they survive?

I took this guy and put him in the flowers by the pot trellis.  He sat on the ground cover for a few minutes and then hopped under the flowers. 

They are very small.  About the size of the fingernail of my pinkie finger.  I have hopes of someday remembering to have my camera at the ready so I can share with my blog fans how cute and small these critters are.

On another note:  Remember the frogs that were captured at my daughters place?  I asked her to mail me a few.  Would you believe she put them in an envelope and sent them?  Naw, I wouldn't either... she didn't.  They would never have survived the stamp cancellation process.  Everyone knows that....