#american green tree frog

[fresh-frogs]

BEEPS

[snototter]

A juvenile American green tree frog (Dryophytes cinereus or Hyla cinerea) in Wakodahatchee Wetlands, Florida

by pedro lastra

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by @waltzing-with-my-inner-geek

"For your consideration: Green Tree Frog (Hyla cinerea)."

[little-creature-of-the-day]

little creature of the day: American green tree frog

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[anadventuregallery]

American Green Tree Frog (hyla cinerea) Cumming, Georgia (2010) Photo: Trish Coxe

[wyyyrm]

: )

[faguscarolinensis]

Hyla cinerea / American Green Tree Frog

[gatorpond]

just cause someone tagged it as such: not australian green tree frog! american green tree frog! smaller guys.

🐸

[weird-an]

"What are you doing?" Steve asks, rubbing his tired eyes. It's time to go to bed, already way past midnight. But then Billy heard a noise outside and now he's kneeling in front of the pool, trying to fish something out of the water.

"This fucker here doesn't know chlorine can kill him," Billy grumbles. He's leaning further forward and well, Steve enjoys the view of Billy's ass he's getting, but what the fuck?

Something croaks. Billy stands up and turns around. He's got a frog in his hand. It's bright green and has huge black eyes.

"What an idiot," Billy murmurs. "We have to wash the chlorine off."

Steve already sees wet prints on the couch and the living room, but Billy's got the determined look on his face whenever his mind is already set and the last time Steve tried to argue with him it ended in a shouting match and Steve trying to woo a insulted Billy for a week until they finally fucked again.

It's nearly 3 am and Billy bathes a frog in his tub. He insisted on the tub, because "the sink is way too small for a pretty boy like him".

The frog croaks in agreement. Billy watches it swim in the water with a big goofy smile on his face.

"Are you saying that the frog is pretty?" Steve says weakly, checking on himself in the mirror. He doesn't look like a frog, does he?

The frog croaks again. It's mocking Steve.

"Very." Billy makes big eyes at Steve. "I never had a pet."

"No," Steve groans. "A frog isn't a pet."

Billy purses his lips. Steve thought something like that would be a discussion he'd have with Dustin, but not with Billy.

"We'll drive it to Lover's Lake tomorrow," Steve says. They won't keep the frog.

"We'll talk about it tomorrow," Billy nods, like these are Steve's exact words. But it's 3 am and Steve is fucking tired.

"Let's go to bed."

The frog croaks. It sounds a little sleepy, too.

[fresh-frogs]

Frogs be like

[ratbugs]

funny little guy dinner time

me when i see a bug:

[frogposting]

american green tree frog (Dryophytes cinereus or Hyla cinerea)

Cute little frog we found last night! First frog I've seen here!

[froggirleyeball]

White-Lined Tree Frog

AKA Phyllomedusa vaillantii

A funky-looking South American frog! They measure around 2 to 3 inches, and boys and girls have different snouts!

While their body is mostly green, they can have white or orange spots, red or lavender legs, and orange bellies! So colorful!

[infodumpingaboutnature]

Merry belated Christmas everyone!!! I’ve been wanting to make a post for a while now but things have been pretty hectic between coming back from my trip to Florida and helping my family with last minute preparations for Christmas. After that my brain needed a few days to just be goop but I’m back now and want to talk about something pretty cool! So while I was in Florida me and my bf went to go visit this wetlands called Green Cay where you can walk around a board walk and see some pretty cool birds and reptiles. The day we went was pretty cold and cloudy (it was like that for most of the time I was there) so that meant there weren’t many reptiles out but it also meant there weren’t many people there either so we got to see a lot of really cool birds!

As soon as we pulled up to the parking lot we were seeing birds such as blue jays, northern mocking birds, common grackles (of course), a red-bellied woodpecker, mourning doves, and a bunch of squirrels. I know none of those species are rare so it makes sense that I would see them but I think it’s so cool to see species that I’m used to like blue jays, squirrels, and woodpeckers hanging out in palm trees.

(Red-Bellied Woodpecker)

Next, we went into the visitor center where they had a few exhibits with animals. The first was a display about native frogs Vs invasive frogs that had Cuban tree frogs and cane toads for the invasive species and green tree frogs, pig frogs, and southern toads for the natives. Sadly, I could only find the Cuban tree frog, cane toad, and pig frog since the glass was super foggy and the frogs like to hide anyways. They also had an American kestrel named Kilee and an Eastern screech owl named Oliver in little flight cages. Both birds were born in the wild but now have injuries that prevent them from flying so they have to live the rest of their lives at the center. The sign said Oliver had been hit by a car and for Kilee it just said she had problems with her wing feathers so idk what happened to her. There was also two tanks one that had turtles (peninsula cooters, Florida softshell, and Florida red-bellied) and a second tank that had some baby American Alligators.

(Pig frog, Cuban tree frog, Kilee the American kestrel, Oliver the Eastern screech owl, peninsula cooter, and American alligator babies)

In the actual park we saw lots of cool species since there weren’t many people out. Like I said no alligators though since it was pretty cold out but we did see plenty of iguanas, a massive Florida Softshell in the water, and a basilisk lizard sitting in a tree!

(Large male green iguana and either a brown basilisk or a green basilisk who isn’t showing off his coloration we couldn’t tell)

That’s all the pics I can add to this post so I’m gonna make a part 2 with all the birds we saw.

[balconybirds]

Sunday Birding 7/23/23

Many excellent birds this morning!  Even though I didn’t see as many at the pond (sob sob), the arboretum made up for it!

First bird to be seen was this handsome cardinal!  He was also the first bird I heard at the pond too:

My funky lil’ guy was back!  So many good (and silly) pictures of a green heron:

This neat frog was out too!

I always make a stop home before I go to the arboretum, and was very pleased to find this goldfinch getting some breakfast at my feeder:

Oh hey, a cardinal was the first bird that I saw at the arboretum too!  I wonder what he’s looking at 🤨

some pretty sunflowers:

A turtle and his buddy!

I was surprised to even see this guy up in the tree!  A ruby-throated hummingbird:

I like to think they are all gossiping at the bird feeder:

Another hummingbird!

A tufted titmouse up in a tree:

They also wanted to join in on the gossip:

Let them in!!!

I was so happy to get a picture of this little guy, a blue-gray gnatcatcher!  I was surprised they stayed still long enough for me to get this picture, lol:

An eastern bluebird!  She was just chillin’ up in a tree, on the lookout for her next snack:

Looking good up there king:

An indigo bunting!  

This dragonfly was polite enough to pose for me while I took their picture:

There were also a pair of tree swallows flying around:

Another eastern bluebird, male this time:

She’s just living the life, in the shade, relaxing, with some tasty snacks:

A downy woodpecker, male:

It was fun watching him crawl around to get to the food:

I just like this white-breasted nuthatch’s silly pose:

They look more dramatic in this one:

A titmouse, crawling down to get a treat:

A red-bellied woodpecker!  I loved her pose here:

Another titmouse:

I love this guy’s poufy hair (well, feathers):

Here is another goldfinch, sitting on a flower:

Some pretty flowers:

Beeee!

A red-eye vireo, they were singing at me while I was walking in this area:

Another hummingbird, this time at one of the feeders:

Some more flowers!

[aniposting]

this american green tree frog is not doing well, right?

(their companion is def more rotund)

both are just over 1 year now

like i think we have a lil glutton on our hands how do we fix this?

i feel so bad i separated my frogs because they’re outcompeting but they keep trying to get close despite the barrier