Noticed what I thought was a mouse hole in a large container inside my greenhouse. Didn't think too much of it until the otherday when a tray of salad seedlings got razed off - there at 9.30am when opened greenhouse & not one left at 1pm when went for some salad leaves to put in lunchtime sarnie.
So determined after lunch to deal with foe.
Moved the tray (now empty) & large toad leapt from underneath. With obvious licking of lips sign. It had got there before me.
Followed toad to container hole & it seems to have decided to stay.
Anyone else haved unusual mammals - wanted or unwanted - setting up home in greenhouse/polytunnel/cloches?
Lucky you - toads are gorgeous.
Once had a slow worm but mooched off pretty quickly.
A toad isn't a mammal, but never mind. I've got house mice, wood mice, field voles, common shrews, foxes and brown rats. I've occasionally found a squashed hedgehog on the roads round the site, but never found evidence of them on the plot. Nothing rare there, but some of them aren't so common close to the city centre!
Full grown grass snake in the composter (I jumped).
Hedgehog in a horses haynet poor thing fell out when I picked it up.
Bat on the back door.
Toads and bumble bee nest in the garage.
Dad had bees in a dustbin he was using to store kindling for the bonfire. Got rehomed :)
Toads do not eat plants. They eat slugs, snails, worms and things like that. They are in fact amphibians and not mammals. Your plants would have been eaten by something else such as mouse or slug or snail.
I have often had a toad living in the GH.