First week of August and the Pacific northwest tree frogs whose nursery is our front pond have “evolved”, though only some of them….the eggs hatch at different times. They also hatch and mature faster in warmer weather, so some literally mature faster than others depending on when they hatched and if they spent time in the warmth of the sun (some of the tadpoles hide among the rocks more than others). Its been unusually cool ALL summer thus far, so their development could be a little slower than usual. This little dude is about 1.5 centimeter length, nose-to-butt. No wonder 3 of us adult humans couldn’t find the little (father) beast back in May when he was still here croaking, despite using flashlights and trying to bait him with recorded tree frog sounds from some website.
(tadpole ^)
This started around the middle of May, with a loud little frog in our front yard pond for a couple of weeks. This was our first visitation by one of those noisy little critters, which we’d rarely heard near our house. Then one night we heard two frogs, for just a few minutes! Then the eggs, then a few tadpoles. Well, actually > 100 tadpoles !! They all now at least have back legs, some are transitioning to breathing air but still have tails, and a handful are fully adult shaped and jumping about at the edge of the water. We took some pictures with the D80 zoom lens, but they are pretty small animals- about 1 1/4 centimeter long, or 1/2 inch. The tadpoles start out small, the body grows to about a nickel size, for those of you still using cold hard cash. As newly adult forms they actually shrink down and become tiny dime-sized versions- as true adults they are ~1 1/2 to 2 inch maximum size. Some are bright green with dark streaks and look like a little leaf, some are brown and nearly invisible. They are hard to see at first, you have to get right down to their level and wait for them to start jumping.
As an aside, apparently the Pacific Northwest tree frog’s call is the one first used by Hollywood as the sound of a frog, and is sort of the “official” frog sound heard in movies. Given their small size, these guys are VERY loud. Fortunately we can’t hear them from the bedroom, and also don’t croak continuously or much at night. Right now these little guys are silent, and we’re hoping they stay that way until they leave. They spend most of their lives away from the water, hence the name. Not much info on when they start getting loud, except that they make mating calls, maybe next year?
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Had to look up your frog, cute