Portrait of Gypsy

While cleaning out "Gertrude" our pool cleaning BOT, i saw an inconspicuous blob on the black fence. the blob was gray and i thought it was a wasp nest and made a note to clean it off after dark. the next time i looked up, the "nest" was looking back at me with a sleepy eye! upon closer inspection i saw it was a frog of some undetermined type...one i had certainly never seen before...inside i went and out came the camera. got a couple shots and let it be. when my son in law came home i told him i found a most unusual frog, and took him to see it...he was fascinated and picked it up, and it stuck to him with cool suction cup feet!!! we played with it a bit and then he decided it's name would be Gypsy and we would keep it so i could take it to school to show the kids. Gypsy had her adventure today, visiting classrooms, where i was able to tell the kids that she was a Common Gray Treefrog, is nocturnal, stays mainly in the trees, but comes down to get bugs for meals. they eat small crickets, grasshoppers and worms, and make sounds that are similar to a bird. i set Gypsy free tonight, in the ornamental cherry tree in one of my gardens. i swear she smiled for her picture!!

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