Gray Treefrogs
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The OTHER noisy spring frog
Just as the spring peepers are winding down (early May), the gray treefrogs are winding up!
There are two species of gray treefrog -- common and Cope's -- but you can't tell them apart by looking at them (you need a DNA test), so I'm going to just call them gray treefrogs. Some gray treefrogs are actually gray, but many are slightly green, and some are BRIGHT green. They make a sound like a very loud cricket chirp.
Gray treefrogs seem quite unafraid of people, and if you pick one up, it's hard to get it to leave you because it wants to hop UP your arm (like climbing up a tree?) and with those sticky toe pads, it can hop right up your shirt and onto your head!
A noisy yardful of treefrogs
(With a green frog's "glunk" at 00:20)
On a stump
On apple tree limb - June 13, 2009
At water's edge
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