Just had to share my little friend!

12 years ago

I just happened to be doing my daily strolling through the gardens and looked down and spotted this welcome little visitor! Too cute! I couldn't pass up!

Can you spot him?

Cathy

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arbo_retum
12 years ago
that is soooo cool!! and as My Love said just now,
"imagine that she had eyes sharp enough to even see it!!"
thnx so much,
mindy

p.s. send it in to Fine Gardening Photo of the Day!!
tepelus
12 years ago
Awww, I love frogs! So cute is the wee one. :)

Karen
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I can't seem to get Clare's photo up, but we live in similar terrain, maybe 20-25 miles apart, so I definitely can visualize the scenario. When my cats Bonnie and Clyde (siblings) were younger (they're 7 now), they would hunt anything that moved, including numerous shrew moles (tiny black moles, about the size of a mouse). They soon learned that the shrew moles weren't as tasty as birds or squirrels (sorry, city dwellers, just the facts re: rural pets), so we'd see/clean up/bury the uneaten remains. But we also had another visitor, a true mole, which DH and I never saw, just their subsurface tunnels (thanks goodness, no gophers, so much more destructive to landscaping.) Anyway, the dynamic duo's prior training meant that the mole only resided a few weeks in our yard, never to be seen again. I don't know if they drove away or killed that mole, but it's gone, at least until spring. The cats are getting lazier now, so coming upon a recently deceased critter is much less frequent, although Clyde did decimate a Varied Thrush (closely related to Robin) last week. BTW: Because they are indoor/outdoor cats, we accept that they are candidates for the food chain -- we do what we can (getting them inside from dusk til daylight), fencing our huge yard against predetors, etc. But we do have coyotes, bobcats, mountain lions, owls, and raccoons in the broad vicinity, so we accept that nature may turn the tables. However, I think there is balance in the quality of life that B & C are experiencing as both indoor lap warmers and outdoor mousers/critter-management agents. BTW: I asked a neighbor if he minded B & C hanging out under his house so frequently, and he said H_ll, no! They haven't had any rodents since they've been a frequent visitors (frequent mousers?). So, B & C are in some ways providing a much needed public service.
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christie_sw_mo
12 years ago
It took me awhile to find it. He blends in. I was looking at the brown stem below the coneflowers and thought that might be some kind of bug eyes. lol
whaas_5a
12 years ago
Wow, he sure did travel far!

What kind is it by the way? Never saw one like this in my area.

{{gwi:262890}}
kentstar
Original Author
12 years ago
He does blend in well! lol
I don't have any idea of what kind he is, but he's still sitting there now! Probably waiting on mosquitos! lol
tepelus
12 years ago
Grey tree frog, in both pictures.

Karen
MollyDog
12 years ago
I couldn't find him either for quite a while.
diggerdee zone 6 CT
12 years ago
LOL, christie, I was looking at the "bug eyes" below too! Then I saw the little guy.

Are tree frogs really that big? I always thought the tree frogs were those little things that are no bigger than my thumb nail that I find all over my yard. I wonder what those really little ones are then? For someone who likes frogs and toads as much as I do, you'd think I'd be better at IDing them!

:)
Dee
pitimpinai
12 years ago
Oooooh, sooo cute. I have never seen any in my yard.
I would love one or two like that....to eat up those flies and mosquitoes!
tepelus
12 years ago
I had a few White's tree frogs as pets several years ago, when they sat all scrunched up like the frogs in the photos, they were as big as the palm of my hand, and I fed them grasshoppers, large crickets and the occasional newborn mouse. I also had Red-eyed tree frogs, in a big vivarium with a little waterfall and live plants, and misted them with water several times a day. They were pretty cool.

Karen
MollyDog
12 years ago
Finding the frog was like playing "Where's Waldo."
singleton165
12 years ago
Wow, I had to study the picture a couple of times and then he just "jumped" right out at me. LOL Now I don't see how I could have missed it!
kentstar
Original Author
12 years ago
Well, that bed is sooo overcrowded. lol I built it when I was just starting out a couple years ago and like a dummie I planted way to close!
Next spring, I have plans already to dismantle it, and rebuild the bed, spacing out the plants to the correct distance. But, that has to wait till spring. It's way too late in the season here to do it.

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