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Disgruntled toad

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I will be honest, the toad had reason to be a bit miffed. While being roughly the same color and texture as a rotten log has obvious advantages in avoiding predators, it also kept me from noticing this critter until my foot was inches away from squishing it to death. Thankfully I spied it in time, and rather than a painful death it was instead subjected to the sight of an unusually tall human jerking sideways while making a peculiar "Whoo~oop!" sound.

Having avoided a potential charge of manslaughter against this amphibian, I naturally followed up by crouching down and spending quite a bit of time trying to get a good shot of it. The toad was surprisingly compliant, doubtlessly under the assumption that I was a predator and by sitting stock still it could avoid being eaten. Although I suppose that it also may have known that by shooting head on I was getting its good side.
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great capture, I love it! :heart: