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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
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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
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thanks to cappy0161 for spotting this, i certainly would've missed it if it was just me :)
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Cope's Gray Treefrog - Hyla chrysoscelis (Dryophytes chrysoscelis)
This individual was lollygagging around in a little roadside puddle mid-morning in Durham NC. I have video/audio of them calling in the puddle from a few days prior. I believe that rapid trill verifies the ID as Hyla chrysoscelis. (Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toads were also calling.)
www.inaturalist.org/observations/86241230
Note, also, that chrysoscelis seems to be the only species found in the lower Piedmont of North Carolina, as opposed to the nearly identical H. versicolor.
I used a circular polarizing filter to suppress glare off the water's surface.
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
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© Bruce Christopher 2017
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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
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What I said when I finally spotted this little critter.
After three days of listening to these guys sounding like a Red-bellied Woodpecker caught in my chimney, I asked Mr. Google what makes a sound similar to said woodpecker. It's no wonder I had trouble finding it. It seems there were more than one outside my home, carrying on from time to time.
I didn't know before this what sound these guys made. It really is amazing how similar it is to the sound made by the Red-bellied. I haven't found this one's mate yet, but I belive it is hanging out somewhere around the chimney wall. I also didn't want to fuss around there much because Mrs. Robin has built a nest in that area and I don't want to disturb her any more than I need to.
Pardon the mulch mess. I've been waiting for it to deteriorate before replacing it, hopefully with rock this time.
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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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New Jersey Audubon Scherman Hoffman Sanctuary, Bernardsville, NJ
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
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Tools: Canon 7D & iPhone 6s.
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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!
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.
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.
Wabash County, Indiana
A series on the Gray Treefrog that was found in a nature preserve in Wabash County. Same frog in comment section.
While my brother and I were rolling over logs looking for salamanders, I spotted this treefrog on a bush within eye sight. Just earlier we were trying to locate a Gray Treefrog that we heard calling from a distance, but our patience ran out.
Please view large on black.
September 19, 2015
We have seen more than the usual number of grey tree frogs this year, OR the same one keeps coming back to visit us. My son found this guy at death's door, all dried up and barely moving in one of our bedrooms! It had obviously been there a long time. My son came to me frantically, screaming that we just had to save it. (it really didn't look good), However, we would try...
Our deck was soaking wet with condensation from the night before. We pushed the water off the boards to fill the bottom of a big plastic jar. In it, we placed the dried up little frog. I figured he might drink, or his body might take in the water. When we checked not even an hour later, the frog was up on the side of the jar, all flush and plump. My son was ecstatic! We let him go in the hydrangeas! Happy day.
Brewster, Massachusetts - Cape Cod
USA
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© Bruce Christopher 2015
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I got home from work today and Ian and BenS were in the backyard holding this fellow hostage under a lacrosse stick head...they named him Gary. Best viewed large!
(month later: thank you for the i.d. Ken-ichi!) Acton, Massachusetts
Gray Treefrog in our garden. Since putting in a little pond we've had at least two species of frogs show up. I think these are my favorite because in the spring, when the night time temperatures begin to average 65 they start breeding and their conversation is such a wonderful ruckus! My complete photo archive is available here.
Amplexing pair of treefrogs among a handful of calling males in a small suburban wetland in western Mississippi.
Different tree frog from yesterday, different snake plant from yesterday, different storaro background colour from yesterday. I'm really branching out in a new dirrection with this one.
Lighting info:
-Sunpak 433d in small 6x8" softbox camera left.
-Sunpak 433d snooted with storaro yellow gel on black background from camera left.
-Triggered with rf602's.
-22" white reflector camera right for fill.
Found a nice piece of wood from a tree taken out by lightning years ago. It has a nice texture that I think went well with Fattys skin pattern.
Lighting info:
-Sunpak 433d in home made strip light camera left.
-Sunpak 433d through homemade ~8"x9" softbox camera right and in front.
-SB28 camera right, up and behind.
-Triggered w/ rf-602's.