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I might add, each of these is about the size of a housefly.

Thanks, Susan and Liz! These are American toads, the most common type hereabouts. They don't spend many weeks as tadpoles before going on to this phase. As summer progresses, they become larger until they are about the size of the last joint of your thumb by autumn. Of course their numbers will have decreased dramatically by that time as well, unfortunately for them... Think about that for a minute; of all the thousands of eggs a toad couple lay every year for the several years of their lifetime, only two need to survive to adulthood and reproduce themselves in order to keep the population stable.

Thank you, Ggirl!

Thank you, Classic! I hadn't thought of them as a chorus line before, but I guess there is some resemblance...

Thanks, Eileen! I like toads too, though some people say "EWWW!" LOL!