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Powell Gardens - Tree Frog
Kingsville, Missouri
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Despite it's green color this is a Gray Tree Frog. One of my most memorable amphibian sightings since I'd never seen a wild tree frog other than the occasional Spring Peeper before. This guy was out on the roads on a very warm and rainy spring night. He came home with me for a couple days for portraits before being released back into his home.
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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
I have been searching for one of these awesome frogs for a few years now and they blend in to the branches they hang out on so well that up till this point I struck out....Last night Becky and I were going to Blockbuster to rent a movie and she spotted this beauty! Where you ask? Climbing up the front of my snow white garage door eating bugs. . .I kept him overnight in a suitable enclosure I had already set up for such an occasion. I photographed him first thing thismorning and released him into the shrubrow next to the garage. This is my favorite North American Frog and after searching for years to photograph one in it's "proper enviernment" it was a gift for it to just walk into my life. Hopefully I will see him again someday.
There are two identical looking species of gray treefrog that can only be separated by their calls or genetic analysis: Gray Treefrog (Hyla versicolor) and Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis).
My brothers Gray Tree frog....Frogger
eating moths to Blue Oyster Cult.
you will need your sound on for this
one:)
Maybe 1" long Gray Treefrog that was in the path of cleaning out a greenhouse. It was relocated to the garden and settled in nicely on this hosta.
A leaf at the edge of the woods makes a perfect sunning location for this small frog.
Taken near Cedarcreek in Taney County, MO
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
Copyright ©2015 Salina T Gibson *All Rights Reserved
A gray treefrog that I discovered hiding behind the neck rest of a patio chair. They can change colors fairly quickly. After moving it from the chair and placing it on an adjacent wall with a light color paint, the frog became very pale within a couple of minutes to match the wall.
I looked out the window yesterday morning to find a small gray tree frog struggling to get to the top of this bush. It was trying to get to the sun to warm up as it was quite cold.I hope it got warmed up before something saw it sitting there.
You rarely get to see these unless you're looking for them (even though you'd probably recognize their call if you live in their range), so it was a treat to find them out on the road. I didn't even know they had such spectacular undersides!
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
Copyright ©2015 Salina T Gibson *All Rights Reserved
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.
Gray tree frog photographed at Hidden Lake Gardens in the Irish Hills area of Michigan. Although native to the area, we were surprised to find this little guy (less than two inches) spending the winter in the warmth of the tropical conservatory. Hidden Lake Gardens is managed by students from Michigan State University.