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Hyla gratiosa
An adult male calling among a large chorus after a passing thunderstorm in Alachua County, Florida.
This little guy was not much over an inch long and was making himself right at home on some backyard patio furniture.
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While cleaning out "Gertrude" our pool cleaning BOT, i saw an inconspicuous blob on the black fence. the blob was gray and i thought it was a wasp nest and made a note to clean it off after dark. the next time i looked up, the "nest" was looking back at me with a sleepy eye! upon closer inspection i saw it was a frog of some undetermined type...one i had certainly never seen before...inside i went and out came the camera. got a couple shots and let it be. when my son in law came home i told him i found a most unusual frog, and took him to see it...he was fascinated and picked it up, and it stuck to him with cool suction cup feet!!! we played with it a bit and then he decided it's name would be Gypsy and we would keep it so i could take it to school to show the kids. Gypsy had her adventure today, visiting classrooms, where i was able to tell the kids that she was a Common Gray Treefrog, is nocturnal, stays mainly in the trees, but comes down to get bugs for meals. they eat small crickets, grasshoppers and worms, and make sounds that are similar to a bird. i set Gypsy free tonight, in the ornamental cherry tree in one of my gardens. i swear she smiled for her picture!!
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While photographing a different tree frog on a tree I heard something hit the ground nearby. I don't know why, but I had the idea that it might be another tree frog, so I searched around and found it. While I was trying to get a photo the frog jumped up on my flash. This guy stuck around for quite a while.
G9 pocketcam, BTW.
Scherman-Hoffman Audubon, Bernardsville, NJ
This is a typical Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor. We found it on a sunny hillside in rural farmland.
These little guys are the ones that make the "ribbit" sound used in movies that call for frog sounds. This is the only shot I managed of this frog (around the size of my thumbnail) before I got distracted by a fence lizard and the frog made its escape.
Hyla andersonii from North Carolina. These small treefrogs are poorly known. They're known from three disjunct populations - one the the New Jersey pine barrens, one in the sandhills region of North Carolina and South Carolina, and one around the Florida/Alabama border. They specialize by breeding in/around seepage bogs during the early summer, though little else is known about their reproduction. Much of their habitat has been destroyed by draining for agriculture and development or degraded by fire suppression.
After a bit of turning the leaf he was perched on round and round I was able to get a picture of his face. I still remember getting him on my finger and feeling his little toes on my skin. Not many things in life more wonderful than having a frog on your finger.
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Last weekend, some of my fellow South Florida Flickr buddies and I went out to Dinner Island Ranch in Hendry County, Florida - knowing that pretty soon the south Florida heat would not allow for it.
At our usual spot, where we look for the barred owls, we know that one can usually find the green treefrogs in the nearby palm fronds. So off we went in search of them ..... finding a lone treefrog almost immediately, but it was difficult to shoot, so we ventured out to find some more. We successfully found another frond that also had a beautiful one and luckily the sun was shining on it just so.
Having just purchased a brand new lens - Nikkor AF-S VR Micro 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED - I wanted to test it out, so I moved in real close. As I snapped away, the frog began to move along the palm frond and we were having difficulty shooting him, so we turned the frond over and discovered 4 more! Then, all of a sudden, several of the treefrogs jumped and one landed on my head! Needless to say, any and all wildlife within probably 1/2 mi heard me screaming as I frantically tried to get it off my head. See...once before, I had an incident with one of them jumping down my swimsuit top while swimming in a pool....so I didn't want any repeat performances... LOL.
I wanted to share this shot today because my daughter is a HUGE fan of frogs, so when I look at it, it reminds me of her and makes me smile :-). She will be coming home tonight from college - to spend the Mother's Day weekend with me. I'm very proud of her, as she just finished her first year of graduate school, studying Human Performance.
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I don't often spot Moltrecht's treefrogs (Rhacophorus moltrechti) in the daytime. This one was making its way up the wall trying to find a moist, shady spot, I would imagine.
Yesterday was a bit challenging for photography but I managed to catch several tree frogs last evening as they were making a bid for mates. Thought some of my Flickr friends might get a kick out of these. Hope you have a great weekend.