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It's mid May on Cape Cod and a gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) is climbing on the Solomon's Seal plant.
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.
They have a beautiful camo pattern of grays and greens. On the underside of their rear legs is a brilliant yellow streak of color. I am not sure how that helps them blend in, but it is probably gorgeous to a female GTF.
T is for Tree frog.
Hyla versicolor
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This tiny Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) is hunkered down for protection in the depression formed by the button on a light-green cloth-covered foam seat cushion.
Fatty just held her mouth open and the mealworm crawled right in. Willingly. Honest.
Note the bluish ball slightly protruding on the top of the inside of her mouth- that'd be her eyeball. They squish their eyes inwards when swallowing prey.
The tree frog soon decided that Don's shirt looked more like a tree than Don's hand did, & decided to go climbing. Not sharp, alas, but shows the bright, bright yellow on the legs -- completely hidden when the frog is sitting still.
A few glamor shots of a little Gray Treefrog I saw earlier this month. I love finding these guys and getting a few photos but their camouflage is just so good. I am sure I am missing many more than I am seeing.
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.
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
Adult Male Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) observed perched in some bushes above a pond in Livingston Co., MI, in June 2009.
Since we moved to Iowa, we enjoyed summer nights filled with deafening chorus of tree frogs. It took me about ten years to catch one of these elusive creatures. This morning I went to set up grill on the deck and look who was hiding under the cover - tiny gray tree frog!
A calling male Cope's Gray Treefrog from the floodplain of the Ochlockonee River in north Florida. This species is abundant in hardwood swamps throughout the southeastern United States.