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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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!