Gray Treefrog, Lincoln Mass.

[urbpan]

I'd like to use that last one to make an icon:


But I'm worried it's too close to this one, from diospyros4luna:

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[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Gray tree frogs are so cute! The first picture really shows its camouflage well! I worked with a gray tree frog at the Virginia Living Museum.

We have a different type of tree frog in Oregon. I believe it's called the Pacific tree frog. I found one in the drain of a sink at Wildlife Safari. We relocated it to a nearby pond.
Pacific Tree frogs

I say go ahead and use the icon if you want to!

[the-icequeen.livejournal.com]

not even close.
you have a frog wiping his foot on your mustache, the other person does not.
go ahead, use it. It's great!

[lostnorange.livejournal.com]

-dies- That is so cute! I want one... (the frog, that is...)

[queenc2346.livejournal.com]

Haha, that is so cool!
I am learning so much from reading your journal, which makes me very psyched. I didn't even know there were tree frogs in NE... It just never occured to me.

It is, indeed, a cute tree frog!

-Carrie.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Just outside of the city they are very common. On these early hot days they all sing at once (that's how I found the one in the pictures). I'm not sure if they don't occur in Boston because of habitat requirements (clean water and fairly dense forest) or because of introduced predators (common carp, Canada geese).

[queenc2346.livejournal.com]

hmm, so, would they be likely to be found by a large fresh-water lake that's pretty much in the country?

-Carrie.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Could be--although they might prefer smaller bodies of water. Large lakes have more fish, which are major predators of tadpoles.

I forgot to add

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

We have two kinds of treefrog in NE. The other one is the spring peeper, smaller and even harder to see than the gray treefrog. Mostly you hear it "ringing" way high up in the trees on the warmer early spring days, in forested parts of NE. I only have seen them in person once or twice--unhealthy ones that have fallen or been knocked to the ground.

Re: I forgot to add

[queenc2346.livejournal.com]

Wow, dang, I love spring peepers, but I never knew they were tree frogs *feels kinda dumb*
I've heard them always, they help me sleep sometimes, they sound lovely.

-Carrie.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/]

VERY cool shots. Bravo to your wildlife photography. And the fact you were in Lincoln.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I work in Lincoln!

It was fun watching Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns and seeing familiar faces and places from the town. Also the Decordova museum (pictured on the cover of Lincoln) is great. We just went there a couple months ago.

Well. it started as a wart on my ass...

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

How is it that I lived twenty five years in NE without seeing one of those?

Re: Well. it started as a wart on my ass...

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I lived about 30 in NE before I saw one. Now that I know they're here I see them all the time (in season). They get themselves in dumb places (cages of predatory animals, for example) and I move them.

In a forest, they're practically invisible. They look like a lichen-covered bump, and they can change color from whitish to grayish to brownish to green. Definitely one of my favorite "new" animals.

Aha!

[(Anonymous)]

That's probably the kind of frog I saw in Maine a few years ago. But the one I saw was on a birch tree, and looked - as a properly camouflaged frog on a birch tree should - just like a birch tree. Do these things change coloration, like chameleons? Or are there really "birch" tree frogs?

-Turtle

Re: Aha!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I remember you telling me that story, and I remember telling you it was probably a gray treefrog! (I believe you insisted "But it was white!") Indeed, they change color!

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Your niece and nephew think the picture of the frog on your face is just about the greatest thing in the world. Frankie keeps asking to see it again. You're a star.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I love you Duncan and Frankie!!!

Any special picture requests? A cockroach on my face? A chicken?