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July 14, 2015
A tiny juvenile gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) stayed a little late on our deck last night. When I moved the grill cover, there he was, very dark green - almost black. After moving him to the box, he turned much lighter, so they must be able to alter their color on demand!! (COOL!) Eventually, he will turn all gray as he gets older.
Brewster, Massachusetts - Cape Cod
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Canon 7D
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Baby Gray Treefrog
Sherman Hoffman Audubon, NJ
8/15/10
This is my favorite shot I have of one of the baby GTFs. smaller than my thumbnail. Would have liked some more DOF to play with but the conditions didn't allow for it
I was picking up sticks in my yard on a cloudy late afternoon and was on my way to throw this in the yard waste dumpster when I noticed a little passenger. It cooperated for a photo session.
Cope's Gray Treefrog - Hyla chrysoscelis
Location: Durham NC (USA)
Cope's (chrysoscelis) is the species found in this immediate area--we do not appear to have any of the virtually identical Hyla versicolor.
Gray Tree Frog, Desert Lake, Ontario, Canada.
Nikon D5000
AF-S DX Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G
1/60th sec.
f/2.8
ISO 200
+0.7EV
Nikon SB-400 speedlight, straight at the frog.
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
Hyla versicolor complex (versicolor or chrysoscelis), Sparta, Monroe County Wisconsin, 10 August 2019.
Roxbury Township, Morris County, NJ
July 29, 2016
An afternoon downpour brought out some calling tree frogs at my new-found spot.
Every Summer in Mid Aug I search one of my favorite swampy habitats for the presence of a fresh crop of Little Gray Tree Frogs. Some years they are numerous and some years like this one they are very scarce or completely absent. I found only two so far this year but I will go back and look a few more times in the hope that they are just maturing a little later this year.
While some species must be found by sight, others can be identified by sound, which is particularly helpful with highly camouflaged animals such as this Cope’s gray treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis). The call of each species is distinct, and so the team can use “anuran call surveys” to quickly detect and document many species without ever having seen them. As many as seven species of anuran often can be found calling together at any one wetland at any one time.
We almost didn't. While moving out the old gas grill we spotted this little guy going along for the ride. HIs coloring was a really good match with the stainless steel and dirt. Quite docile, he posed for a few shots before I put him in a pot of herbs on the patio.
This image was all a matter of luck. Not only did I need to be in the right place at the right time, but I was lucky to spot this guy from my vantage point along the shoulder of Rt.7A in rural upstate Columbia County, New York, USA. I had been looking for Tree Frogs all Summer along this section, unsuccessfully, until today. The last one I had seen here was on August 09, 2008. This Frog was sitting in the fold of a Wild Grape leaf about eight to ten feet above the ground. Luckily, the vine extended and hung down within reach. I had to hold down the vine with my left hand and take the image, one-handed, with my right hand. It took several attempts to get this reasonable shot. I believe this to be a Gray Tree Frog, possibly an immature, in a green phase with some gray evident. This is a less than 1:1 close-up, about 1:1.5 at the sensor. For this image I used my manual focus Tamron Adaptall-2 model 52B SP 90mm f2.5 macro lens and Tamron Adaptall-2 18f 1:1 tube with attached Tamron Adaptall-2 Pentax K A mount on Pentax K20D camera, hand held, manually focused, ISO 200, SR 100mm, f22 on lens, 1/180 sec, with fill-in flash from camera's built-in electronic flash. This is a full resolution large JPEG and is Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) without any adjustment, cropping, or resizing.
Glad I found this cute little (1 3/4") fellow before the cats or dog did! He was clinging to the living room wall, so I took him outside. Below is the only other photo I've gotten of one of these guys.
Photographed at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Lake Texoma, Oklahoma, on 3 August 2017.
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A second round of Tiny gray Tree frogs. This shot of one on a leaf gives some idea of how tiny they are.
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
Hyla versicolor * Knott Co, Ky
Order: Anura
Family: Hylidae
Genus: Hyla
Size - about 2" long
The Gray Treefrog can be green, gray, or brown in color. It can be a solid color, or it can have blotches on its back. The gray treefrog can change its color in seconds. It tends to become darker when it is cold or dark. Its coloring helps it blend in with tree bark! It has a white underside and lots of warts. It has large, sticky toe pads that help it cling to tree bark and other surfaces. It has bright yellow to orange skin under its thighs.
The gray treefrog is nocturnal. It spends the day resting in trees and shrubs. At night, it crawls among the branches and leaves looking for food. It usually only comes out of the trees and bushes during the breeding season. In the winter, it hibernates under leaves, bark, or rocks on the forest floor.
Breeding season runs from April to August. Males gather in trees and bushes next to breeding ponds and swamps and begin calling. The male aggressively defends its territory from intruders. The female selects a mate based on his call. She lays her eggs on the surface of shallow water in ponds or swamps. She may also lay her eggs in standing water in tire ruts, vernal pools, or even swimming pools! The eggs are attached to vegetation to keep them from floating away. The female lays as many as 2,000 eggs in groups of 10-40 eggs. The tadpoles hatch in 4-5 days and change into froglets in about two months.
Info taken from: www.nhptv.org/wild/graytreefrog.asp
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