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I think this is a squirrel treefrog (as opposed to a green treefrog). I also hope what we are seeing is its tongue. These little ones and their relatives often keep me awake at night. Here, we see one resting on a saw palmetto frond.
There were Tree Frogs calling everywhere at the little pond off Clegg meadow. Found this one in the grass......put him on the branch for a picture.
One of my best rated photos on another site is in the top10 in macros.
This was taken by my Fuji S5500 - in memoriam :)
From last weekend, camped at Bear Island which is beautiful, so we could be closer to a cypress strand to canoe in the morning. That didn't yield any keepers but this is from the night before. These guys were jumping all over in the muhly grass.
The dark eye stripe does not change, but the body color and dark markings can quickly change from dark to light, and the body color itself can also change, typically from brown to green or vice versa or a combination of both, in response to environmental conditions.
A study of Hyla (Pseuacris) regilla in Washington concluded that "H. regilla has control over and can change its hue, chroma, and lightness during time periods on the order of minutes." ..."...we support the idea that physiological color change has evolved as a mechanism to allow rapid background matching as a tree frog moves from one location to another."
(James C. Stegen et al. The control of color change in the Pacific tree frog, Hyla regilla. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2004, Vol. 82, No. 6)
(Litoria caerulea) He lives just under the lid of my bin, and has an unfortunate habit of jumping in the bin whenever I lift the lid. So I've learned to be careful and slowly lift and then catch him before he jumps. I don't want him ending up as landfill!
Hyla cincerea
A large adult resting on some foliage on the edge of a large cypress swamp in southern Illinois.
I love frogs almost as much as birds, maybe more. The Gray Treefrog is fairly common in the Great Swamp, but they can be maddenly difficult to find. They often hide in the crooks of trees or in knot holes, as this one did. I somehow managed to catch a glimpse of light off of him. (BTW - I may have chosen the wrong subspecies here).
I really blew this photo up and enhanced the image to make the frog more obvious. In the field and the photo, it was almost indistinguishable from the tree. Also, the light was awful, so way underexposed the photo and then blew it out with the flash.
Taken in New Jersey, USA
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