can you see me now?

gray tree frogs can be green. we have lots of them. they have the admirable ability to camouflage themselves from gray to green or brown, depending on the surface they are sitting on. in june, when they are calling for mates, we enjoy a nightly chorus that i look forward to every year. recently, that chorus has been replaced by a nightly serenade of crickets. every summer, we try to guess the week in july when the frog calls die down, and the cricket calls take over–we call it cross-over week.  now, in august, the frogs are mostly silent but they are still around, they congregate around our windows and porch lights to eat insects that are attracted to the light. this cutie was sitting on a potted plant on my front stoop, waiting for dusk, when i turn on the porch light. happy feasting dryophytes versicolor!

gray treefrog (Dryophytes versicolor)