Just a little gift of nature

[workinforwood]

This little guy was on the downspout last night (4pm in my world) right below the soffet. The black he is sitting on is the cable from the satellite dish which is attached to the downspout. It wasn't easy getting this shot up close in that tight spot up there. I could not get a face shot because the wall was in the way and I didn't want to disturb him. I assume it is a grey tree frog..although he's green of course. He was about 2" long at most. I never ever saw a frog like this before. We have tons of grey tree frogs..maybe not tons, but i see them now and again every year, but they are generally just 3/4 long if that and they are grey. This fatty must be living the high life because I never saw the mosquito's as bad as they have been this year. I also assume perhaps he climbed up there to perch because that's where I tend to go smoke and he's using me as bait to attract more mosquito food!?!

Little things like this make life worth living in my opinion.

 

[BSea]

Hmmmmmm . . . . . . . might be just big enough for a sierra.

JK:wink:

 

[Drstrangefart]

I stumble across those guys in the darndest places at work. Always cool.

 

[ctubbs]

Ours are mostly green. Possibly you may have one of our illegal immigrants! We also have some that change color trying to match their background. When one of them get on our white camper, they look really funky. They can almost match the color, just have a few dark spots. Tree frogs are some of the coolest creatures God came up with.
Charles

 

[Pioneerpens]

wow Jeff! Excellent shot of that lil guy!!

 

[Dan26]

Jeff, I think his brother lives down here. This critter jumped on my swing and walked onto my hand.

 

[Ruby pen turning]

Great shot. They like to make A LOT of noise when its about to rain.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Last time I got a "little gift of nature" it was from a Canada goose and I had to wash it off of my hat brim.

 

[nava1uni]

Both pictures are very cool. I love tree frogs, I think that they are magical.

 

[TheRealSmith]

cool visitor.... Maybe he wanted a smoke too....

 

[Rounder]

We had one that was hanging around our back door that looked just like yours. We have a sign above our back door that says "Home Sweet Home" and it liked to sit on top of it or hide behind it. He was there for about 3 weeks earlier this summer. I thought it was a pretty cool choice of a perch. I will attach a picture this evening after I get home from work,

 

[workinforwood]

I love the tree frogs, you can stare at them for hours if you had the time. I've only ever spotted one garden spider, and I'm no fan of spiders, but those huge garden spiders are wicked cool to look at with all the red and white spots on their legs. I would not make a pen from a tree frog. I don't kill these little guys, even the toads, if I see them I pick them up and move them so they don't get chopped up while mowing. All these creatures are my defense against the major mosquito infestation this year. We got a new mosquito, but i heard also it's not new, it's a 100 yr mosquito, only comes out once every hundred years supposedly, well it's one heck of a huge mosquito, like a darn bee coming to suck you dry.

 

[snyiper]

Left the pool open last winter and needless to say this spring when I got to cleaning it I had to save what seemed like millions of the tree frog tadpoles! I along with wife and daughter caught all of them and put in our back yard lilly pond, man talk about a rukus at night. But they are pretty cool animals so I do enjoy them outside at night while just sitting.

 

[PR_Princess]

I love the tree frogs, you can stare at them for hours if you had the time. I've only ever spotted one garden spider, and I'm no fan of spiders, but those huge garden spiders are wicked cool to look at with all the red and white spots on their legs. I would not make a pen from a tree frog. I don't kill these little guys, even the toads, if I see them I pick them up and move them so they don't get chopped up while mowing. All these creatures are my defense against the major mosquito infestation this year. We got a new mosquito, but i heard also it's not new, it's a 100 yr mosquito, only comes out once every hundred years supposedly, well it's one heck of a huge mosquito, like a darn bee coming to suck you dry.

OMG that thing is NOT a mosquito - it's a darn helicopter!!!


http://www.annarbor.com/news/gallinipper-mosquitoes-are-here-big-and-biting/


Galliniper mosquito - Native to Michigan. LOL lucky you!!

 

[louie68]

Here's a turtle that came to visit my pond

 

[Rounder]

Here are my pictures of our green frog. Cute little bugger.

 

[workinforwood]

I love the tree frogs, you can stare at them for hours if you had the time. I've only ever spotted one garden spider, and I'm no fan of spiders, but those huge garden spiders are wicked cool to look at with all the red and white spots on their legs. I would not make a pen from a tree frog. I don't kill these little guys, even the toads, if I see them I pick them up and move them so they don't get chopped up while mowing. All these creatures are my defense against the major mosquito infestation this year. We got a new mosquito, but i heard also it's not new, it's a 100 yr mosquito, only comes out once every hundred years supposedly, well it's one heck of a huge mosquito, like a darn bee coming to suck you dry.

OMG that thing is NOT a mosquito - it's a darn helicopter!!!


http://www.annarbor.com/news/gallinipper-mosquitoes-are-here-big-and-biting/


Galliniper mosquito - Native to Michigan. LOL lucky you!!

yep, that's the one! I have them at my house and they attack while you mow the lawn and when they bite you it's just like the article says, it's like getting stabbed with a needle. Reminds me of a horse fly bite. They don't just squish into nothingness when you smack them either, they have real substance!

 

[workinforwood]

Looks like your frog could be a twin of mine Randy! Far as I can tell, it looks exactly the same and although it's green, it's a grey tree frog according to MSU. They often change colors to suit their environment.

 

[bitshird]

Jeff we get a few of the green tree frogs, but we have so many little red and brown toads it's amazing. I can't walk up to my daughters at night with out squishing one.

 

[Smitty37]

Hmmmmm

I love the tree frogs, you can stare at them for hours if you had the time. I've only ever spotted one garden spider, and I'm no fan of spiders, but those huge garden spiders are wicked cool to look at with all the red and white spots on their legs. I would not make a pen from a tree frog. I don't kill these little guys, even the toads, if I see them I pick them up and move them so they don't get chopped up while mowing. All these creatures are my defense against the major mosquito infestation this year. We got a new mosquito, but i heard also it's not new, it's a 100 yr mosquito, only comes out once every hundred years supposedly, well it's one heck of a huge mosquito, like a darn bee coming to suck you dry.

OMG that thing is NOT a mosquito - it's a darn helicopter!!!


http://www.annarbor.com/news/gallinipper-mosquitoes-are-here-big-and-biting/


Galliniper mosquito - Native to Michigan. LOL lucky you!!

I heard one of them landed at the Detroit airport and they pumped 100 gallons of high octain gas into it before they discovered it wasn't a Cessna 172.

 

[workinforwood]

1st few times I got bit I didn't know what it was, never seen it before. If the mower wasn't running the whole town might have heard me scream like a little girl! Even after I heard about them it took me a long time to make the connection. Its too late now but I wish I captured a few to cast in resin. I could have spun and engraved them with name and date which would be really cool because last time they hatched was in the 30's so I'm unlikely to ever see them again.

 

[Rick P]

Dead tie for the worst biting insect problems I have ever encountered.......the north slope here in Alaska and Tahquamenon falls in Michigan's UP. However I have never been bitten by a bug while shoveling snow........in Michigan. Alaska has a great big skeeter my family calls B-52's at least the size of the one in the pic. They come out first and are big slow and dumb. The f-16's show up a month later they are a force to be reckoned with!

We have one reptile here in Alaska. A small very rare tree frog I have seen one. I miss frogs! Last time I was in Michigan we visited one of my favorite beaver damns to do a little brookie fishing. We got so distracted by the frogs we never wetted a line! There was another couple fishing"where you city folks from" they called out as we walked back to the truck. "Here originally but we have been living in Alaska for well over a decade. First time we have seen a frog in all that time." There reaction was almost as good as the guy at the sporting goods store where we got our deer hunting license...."why the hell would anyone leave Alaska to hunt deer"!!!!!I think he is still shaking his head over that one.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

My wife's aunt was born and raised in Juneau and moved to Ohio when she was a teenager. On the school bus to school one day she saw a bunch of large green round things in a field. She asked what they were and everybody laughed at her because she didn't know what a round hay bale was. When she told this to her mother her mother said," I bet none of those kids have ever seen a whale." Her daughter replied," Mom, EVERYONE has seen a whale."

 

[sbwertz]

I just came from Ft Morgan, CO where I had gone for my 50th high school reunion. They are having a plague of grasshoppers there, and at night the little frogs and toads come out and feast. After a while they are so full of grasshoppers they can't even hop!