Tree Frog
Monday, December 10th, 2007One hot summer day in July 07 I made an interesting discovery while bat-proofing a home in Bellingham Ma. I was walking across the roof, about to step onto my ladder when I noticed something strange on the home’s Direct TV dish. There sitting in the shade beneath the dish was a frog.
A closer look revealed a light gray/silver frog resting in the elbow of the Direct TV Dish. The strangest thing to me at this point was that were were both 30 feet in the air. I have run into tree frogs before on smaller homes and even once in the wild but never on the roof of a 3-story house.
I nudged the little guy out of his hideout so I could get a better look at him. The most interesting thing about this frog was his feet. Each foot had 3 toes with little suction cups on the ends of the toes to aid him in climbing. He got a little nervous and ended up jumping onto the roof below. I took a couple more pictures, placed him back in his hideout and went on my way.
When I got back to the office that day I looked up some information on tree frogs. I found them to be very interesting. They change colors throughout the year and are generally considered hard to photograph because they spend most of their time high in trees in the wild. The best information I could find about these critters was from the University of Rhode Island. Check out their web page about our native tree frogs for more information.
Matt Grady