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Baby Gray Treefrog
Sherman Hoffman Audubon, NJ
8/19/13
Im not sure why but i really like this one. Maybe because of how his feet are curled up so neatly under him. Click to view sharp. very narrow DOF on this one due to the cloud cover and very little light. And i was too lazy to put my flash on...Also found this one nowhere near where they usually are. He was out in the middle of a field
Baby tree frogs have emerged. To get a sense of the size the baby is next to a grass seed head. I’ve found all sizes this week from adults to babies.
The two species of Gray Treefrog in North America are morphologically indistinguishable, but you can tell them apart by their calls. Hyla chrysoscelis (Cope's Gray Treefrog) has a much faster trill than Hyla versicolor (Gray Treefrog). You can hear the difference between the two species in this video. First is Hyla chrysoscelis, followed by Hyla versicolor.
A North American Common Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor) hanging out on a chair on our deck.
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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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Gray Tree-frog, Hyla chrysoscelis, Durham, North Carolina, on the side of my house. These are everywhere in my neighborhood in the summer. They call during rainstorms, especially in response to thunder. They will also call in response to loud noises generated by humans. They are all camouflage gray, looking like lichen when they perch on tree trunks. (Sometimes they are more of a silvery-green color--I have one photo of such an individual.) Their hind legs have a bright yellow stripe, shown when they are grasped. Perhaps this is a "startle" or warning coloration. There are two closely-related species, Hyla chrysoscelis and Hyla versicolor. They differ only in call (allegedly) and in their chromosomal number. My reference books indicate we have only H. chrysoscelis here in the Piedmont. I have listened to recordings of the two species over-and-over, and I'll be darned if I can tell the difference in calls.
See Herps of NC account.
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An inhabitant of an interesting microhabitat - a splash pool on the edge of Lake Huron. I suspect that that growth of algae and tadpoles might be favoured in this exposed site. Along the Wreck Island Interpretive Trail.
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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I thought it would be hilarious to post a continuation of yesterday's picture. I had taken so many shots (ok, more like 16) of these frogs (there were two separate frogs, I admit) that I thought it would be a shame not to post one more.
Now that I'm on 2nd shift I find it strange to have my free time prior to work. I want to keep it that way so that I may preserve my sleep schedule as close to that of a normal person as possible. Anyway, here I am hangin' out, posting shots on the flickerverse.
Eastern narrowmouth toads, and a few grey tree frogs were calling from a roadside gutter near my house after a big rain two days ago. Yesterday there were egg masses all over one end of a little pool in the gutter. I believe they are from the Narrowmouth toads. I'm going to try to rear a few--the embryos have already changed a lot. You can see here what look to be two stages of the embryo--the tan ones, I believe, are younger. The dark ones have already taken on a bit of tadpole-like shape.
Update:8/29/09
I had originally thought these were Narrowmouth toads, Gastrophryne carolinensis, but my one transforming tadpole on 8/29/09 is clearly a Gray Treefrog, Hyla chrysoscelis. (This individual, unfortunately, died right as it was transforming, but the species ID is clear.)
My neighbor had Gray Treefrogs breeding in his pool cover this spring, and he saved a handful of tadpoles for me when he opened up the pool. - Allegany County, NY, USA
Isabella County: This drawing will be 10 years old this spring. I remember how excited I was to find this frog. It was the largest gray tree frog I had ever found and it was gray not green!
taken at night Byram Township, Sussex County, NJ May 27, 2014
Found perched on an abandoned inflatable pool float by the shoreline.
In Rice Lake Savanna SNA. First time seeing one of these guys in the wild. Paid me no attention, as I worked him as my model :)
A second round of Tiny gray Tree frogs
On 24 Aug 2014 I stopped by a small pond near my home in hopes of catching a few photos of bullfrogs. It was still early morning with a light dew on the grass and as I was standing by the pond quiet and still hoping to spot the bullfrogs I started to notice the grasses plants and foliage around me and the pond. Then I noticed the first Tiny Gray tree Frog sitting on a leaf just a foot or less away from me. Then I noticed another and another. In all I spotted about a dozen of the quiet little fellows around me but I am sure there were more I didn't see. If I had to pick a real "OH Wow " moment from all my photos this past summer this would be it. These little frogs were amazing so tiny and well camouflaged that I was standing with them all around me and only by luck spotted them
There seemed to be a strand of viscous matter on the body of this Gray treefrog, and it spent several minutes wiping its whole body with all four feet.
A tiny Gray Tree Frog has taken up residence near our front porch. We have never seen one before and are thrilled that it has been here for three days so far.
Gray Treefrog
Frog Pond, NJ
4/28/11
Fun with a flashlight. Built in flash creates really flat images and i dont like that
This little tree frog is starting to get used to me. He is the same frog seen in other images in my photo stream. He lives next to our swimming pool. I have caught him so many times to show my children and their friends, that he doesn't even try to get away anymore. This allowed me to get VERY close for this image. Literally less than 15mm from lens to frog. He is a beautiful creature and I appreciate his patience. No, the photo is not sideways, he is on the side of a tree.
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.
Every spring a fierce battle takes place for the bird boxes. The usual contenders are chickadees, tree swallows, and bluebirds. This year, a gray treefrog decided to join the fray took up residence inside one of the north facing boxes.
It's an ideal location, it kept him out of the midday sun, safe from predators, and his trill sounded pretty unique from inside the box. When the tree swallow that was currently trying to set up a nest in the box returned and found it nest occupied, it just flapped and chirped angrily, then flew away.
Frog>> insectivorous bird.
The photo on the left is lit solely by the late evening sun, and the contrast is very high. The photo on the right has a diffuser placed just out of the frame between the frog and the sun for a much more evenly lit photo. The reduced contrast lets the colour in the bird box come out without wiping out the highlights on the frog and the result is much cheerier. All photos of tree frogs should be cheery.
Cope's gray treefrog has an unfortunately confusing common name - he may, depending on his mood, don mottled gray, dark brown, light green. What does not change, not matter how much he might wish it, are his slimy granular skin, freakishly large toe pads, and the startling bright yellow-orange of his inner thighs. He's quite the night owl, sleeping his days away in a cozy tree-hole before emerging at dusk to binge-eat invertebrates.
If you'd like to hear what my Georgia backyard sounds like right now - listen!
Green treefrogs - the loudest ones
Gray treefrogs
Green frogs - sound like banjos
Fowler's toads - that whistling hum in the b/g
Cricket frogs - well, they sound like crickets
Bullfrogs
Gray Treefrog
New Jersey
5/10/13
Finally found my first of the year they are one of my favorite finds. Had a great day out with Brett, Steve, Jim, Adam and others. Brett, thanks again big time
I couldn't get as close because he was getting impatient with me by this point, which is why his adorable little treefrog toes are no longer tucked underneath. He was giving serious consideration to leaving. The white patch beneath the eye is characteristic of both species. I think it's more likely this guy is H. versicolor because of where he was found (versicolor is more likely farther north), his rough skin, and his size (didn't measure, seemed close to 6cm), but none of those is reliable. Even if he'd been singing his little amphibious heart out, I wouldn't know which he was; for me, he'd have to sing, "Helloooo, I am Hyla (versicolor/chrysoscelis)..." :) Apparently, the song sounds something like a red-bellied woodpecker (and there are lots of those in the area ) so perhaps some of the woodpeckers I'd been hearing around there weren't woodpeckers at all.
July 22, 2017
We found a young grey tree frog (Hyla versicolor) sitting quietly in the grass. She eventually made it to the trunk of an old pear tree where she blended in perfectly with the rough bark.
The younger grey tree frogs are bright green. They eventually turn a very light mottled grey color with the appearance of maple bark or 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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A North American Common Grey Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor), showing the identifying orange underside of its rear legs.
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It's a bit fuzzy because it is shot through a few layers of glass, but I love the pose.
I don't know which species this is around here ( there are two species with identical morphology) as it involves either karyotyping or hearing the call and knowing the temperature of the calling individual. You can hear a recording of this species here: www.alanwolf.org/frog-calls.