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I was working in our front garden this morning and grumbling about all the rocks when one of them moved by itself. On closer inspection it turned out to be what I believe is a gray tree frog. Good hunting, buddy.
thanks to cappy0161 for spotting this, i certainly would've missed it if it was just me :)
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Same Frog, Different Log as www.flickr.com/photos/bprobin/8393561218/in/photostream
I've been trying out different ways of making a background that's neither too boring nor too distracting and also somewhat complimentary to the froggy. This is the same background material as the previous photo, but not as wrinkly means less tonal variation in it.
Lighting Info:
-Sunpak 433d camera right and a little front, in homemade strip box.
-Sunpak 433d camera left fired through 60cm round diffusion panel
-Bare sb-28 at background, a yellow curtain pressed into service.
-Triggered with rf-602s.
A tiny gray tree frog has been hanging around on my deck railing He's green because he's near the morning glory trellis and those bright green leaves, These guys are nocturnal so I think this is sleeping posture. He's only about an inch long.
July 23, 2021
This young grey tree frog (hyla versicolor) found its way into the shirt I left on the deck last night. He did his best to blend in...
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2021
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...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 11.
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July 17, 2019
A grey tree frog (hyla versicolr) lingered a little too long on the ivy last night. It was late morning when I found him right next to the spigot, moist and dripping with condensation as the sprinklers were quenching the dry garden.
(Note, he still has a bit of a butt bump from his tadpole days.)
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2019
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...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 6s.
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Tree Frog (Hylidae family) / May, Habersham Co., Georgia, USA / Copyright ©2020 by William Tanneberger - All Rights Reserved.
Eastern Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor)
Rural Habersham Co., GA (Homewoods)
July 22, 2017
This is a young grey tree frog (Hyla versicolor) we found sitting quietly in the grass. When we tried to catch her, she leaped onto my Yakima cargo box, which was down on the ground being washed. The dimpled black surface made for a nice setting for her to pose!
The younger grey tree frogs are bright green. They eventually turn to a very light mottled grey color with the appearance of maple bark or even a light piece of granite. This one still has a very faint hint of green on her skin.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2017
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...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 6s.
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July 13, 2022
A young grey tree frog in its green phase. This guy is only a couple cm long.
(Hyla versicolor)
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2022
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...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 11.
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I was very excited this past Saturday 10 Aug. 2019 to find about a dozen tiny Gray tree frogs on plants and trees close to a frog pond I often visit for dragonfly and frog photos.
I first noticed these amazing little frogs at this location in 2014. I saw them again in late summer 2015, but then poof gone for 2016, 17 and 18. I feared that they had totaly died out. Then Saturday after looking around the trees and plants near the pond I found none and was on my way back to my car when I spotted the first one on a low leaffy plant on the tree line, then I saw another and another all hiding in plain sight.
They have the ability to slowly change their color to the color of whatever they are sitting on which is a very effective camouflage.
July 17, 2019
A grey tree frog (hyla versicolr) lingered a little too long on the ivy last night. It was late morning when I found him right next to the spigot, moist and dripping with condensation as the sprinklers were quenching the dry garden.
(Note, he still has a bit of a butt bump from his tadpole days.)
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2019
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 6s.
No use without permission.
Please email for usage info.
© Jim Gilbert 2013 all rights reserved
New Jersey Audubon Scherman Hoffman Sanctuary, Bernardsville, NJ
I was very excited this past Saturday 10 Aug. 2019 to find about a dozen tiny Gray tree frogs on plants and trees close to a frog pond I often visit for dragonfly and frog photos.
I first noticed these amazing little frogs at this location in 2014. I saw them again in late summer 2015, but then poof gone for 2016, 17 and 18. I feared that they had totaly died out. Then Saturday after looking around the trees and plants near the pond I found none and was on my way back to my car when I spotted the first one on a low leaffy plant on the tree line, then I saw another and another all hiding in plain sight.
They have the ability to slowly change their color to the color of whatever they are sitting on which is a very effective camouflage.
When the night is warm and the ground moist, Cope's gray treefrogs of the male persuasion advertise their amorousness by bleating a rapid musical trill to any lady in the vicinity.
This is one of my adult male gray treefrogs with two babies i've been raising. They started out at pretty much the size of the adult's eyeball, and now they've grown to this. They've got bright yellow inner legs just like the adults do, and they eat bean weevils like there's no tomorrow!
Getting three frogs to stay in a decent position for more than half a second was difficult, to say the least. But eventually they stayed, and they look pretty happy with themselves.
They're sitting on a black bear skull, if anyone was wondering.
Massapequa, NY
Gray Treefrog
Scientific name:
Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla versicolor
Features:
Gray treefrogs are Missouri’s most common species of treefrog. Two species of gray treefrogs occur in Missouri: Cope’s gray treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis, and the eastern gray treefrog, Hyla versicolor. There is always a large, white marking below each eye. Large, adhesive toe pads are present on fingers and toes.
Color:
May be gray, greenish-gray or brown. Bright green specimens are
often seen. The inside of each hind leg is washed with yellow-orange.
Size:
Average from 1 ÂĽ to 2 inches in head-body length.
Habitat:
Forest-dwelling
Breeding:
Late May and early June in fishless, woodland ponds.
Call:
These two species are nearly identical in appearance and are best separated by their calls. Cope’s gray treefrog sounds like a buzzer, while the eastern gray treefrog has a birdlike, musical trill.
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July 22, 2017
This is a young grey tree frog (Hyla versicolor) we found sitting quietly in the grass. When we tried to catch her, she leaped onto my Yakima cargo box, which was down on the ground being washed. The dimpled black surface made for a nice setting for her to pose!
The younger grey tree frogs are bright green. They eventually turn to a very light mottled grey color with the appearance of maple bark or even a light piece of granite. This one still has a very faint hint of green on her skin.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
Photo by brucetopher
© Bruce Christopher 2017
All Rights Reserved
...always learning - critiques welcome.
Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 6s.
No use without permission.
Please email for usage info.
This treefrog was kind enough to spend the night on the panes by our front door. I guess he wanted to show off those pretty yellow legs that usually aren't visible. Frog season is starting up here and we get about 12 species heard from our screened porch. Upland Chorus Frogs are up first and have been erupting occasionally since October. A month from now they will be in a full roar that you can hear at night even over the television with windows closed. Chorus frogs are my favorite sounds of winter.
Here's what Gray treefrogs sound like:
Jocelyne and I were doing some gardening today and we came across this little guy in behind one of my flower pots. Isn't he the cutest little tree frog. He's quite tiny, only a couple centimeters long. I just love his colouring, he can actually change colour according to his surroundings and will turn from gray to green and black to white...pretty cool hey. I'm not much into picking up frogs anymore, I think I gave that up when I was a little kid though briefly got back into when our kids were little and needed help capturing frogs but that was years ago :-) But I braved it and did pick up this little guy so you could see how tiny he is in comparison to my hands (there's a picture in the comments). And he wasn't a real squirmy frog like the leopard frogs we find in our yard, so he was kind of nice to hold, he just stuck to my thumb.
I've posted some more Spring shots on my blog.
Hundreds of eggs were found in my granddaughter's swimming pool this morning. The pool is 10ft x 4 ft and about 3 feet deep. I have a kiddie pool just for the frogs and will transfer them tomorrow. There will be frogs in our future!
Aug 2015, tiny Grey Tree Frogs perched on Arrow Head leaves at a small frog pond near my home outside Marietta Ohio. I have learned to look for the frogs on the plants and trees surrounding the pond as the first tree frogs emerge from tadpoles around mid Aug. In fact the last three photos in this series are of a young tree frog which still hasn't completely absorbed his tadpole tail. These little frogs are about the size of a nickle. They are fascinating and a lot of fun to photograph.
May Camera Club Theme-"Weather"
Technically "Homemade Weather", spray bottle in one hand, camera remote in the other.
Lighting info:
-Sunpak 433 in 6"x8" softbox above and slightly camera right.
-White reflector directly below camera for fill.
-SB-28 through homemade gridspot behind and camera left as raindrop and vocal sack light*.
-The gridspot sucks power, allowing the SB-28 to be at full power for the longest flash duration...this was necessary to get streaks of rain instead of frozen dots.
-Triggered with rf-602's.
(*hairlights don't work on frogs, they need vocal sack lights.)
A Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor) perched on a leaf.
As the species name Hyla versicolor implies, Gray Tree Frogs are highly variable in color owing to their ability to camouflage themselves from gray to green, depending on the substrate they are sitting on. The degree of mottling varies. They can change from nearly black to nearly white. They change colors more slowly than a chameleon. Dead gray tree frogs and ones in unnatural surroundings are predominantly gray in color.
Gray tree frogs are primarily arboreal, spending time in wooded areas, usually not far from a permanent water source. On rainy evenings they can often be found calling in or near shallow, temporary pools of water, and often in swimming pools. They are nocturnal and insectivorous, consuming most any small arthropods they can catch. They will also eat algae if readily available.
Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro mounted on a Canon XTi.