But he said, in absence of the run, he had been researching the toads – previously misidentified as frogs.<\/p>\n
He said he had become something of an amphibian enthusiast – even delving into the history of their supposed witchcraft properties.<\/p>\n
He has been snapping his favourites for a “Toad of the Day” feature on the group’s Facebook page, where he has also been sharing poetry he has written about them.<\/p>\n
“It’s impossible to hate anything about toads, they do nothing but good,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I think they’re endlessly fascinating, and it’s always wonderful to be reminded that you share nature with all sorts of other things – we are part of wild country.<\/p>\n
“Maybe it’s a bit like a thunderstorm, we hate being inconvenienced by the weather, but once in a while you see something absolutely amazing and you don’t care.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But he said, in absence of the run, he had been researching the toads – previously misidentified as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-685699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}