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Remember when I said<\/a> that a frog could be nestled within the canopy of the little potted Japanese maple on our deck and I might never see it? I mean, it was just a couple of days ago, a mere two posts back.<\/p>\n

The next day (I’m a little slow on pasting right now,) I was watering that very tree and a green treefrog (Dryophytes cinereus<\/em>) erupted from within and landed on the deck, obviously a bit taken aback by the deluge while it was trying to sleep. I finished watering and then returned the frog to the tree, not trying to convince it to be anywhere, just releasing it within the leaves. This is what it looked like:<\/strong><\/p>\n


Oh, it’s in there all right, and I took pains to position myself so it was visible, but at this resolution, you’re not likely to see it regardless. Here’s a tighter, full-resolution crop:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The immature katydid is just a bonus (and not spotted at the time,) but this gives you an adequate idea, I suspect. I took a moment to examine the other angles that I could exploit, but believe me, they were very narrow indeed.<\/p>\n

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This angle shows a couple of scars on the upper lip, which makes me curious as to what produces them – I’ve seen much more distinct ones<\/a> before, on a green (aquatic) frog, same approximate location. Is this from a predator, or burrowing into something unyielding?<\/p>\n

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This is my favorite of the session, but it does give me the impression that I’m somewhere in the Amazon about to get blowdarted.<\/p>\n

Yet as I took my leave, the frog, shifting position among the thin branches, gave me a friendly wave. Or am I reading too much into it again?<\/p>\n

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Remember when I said that a frog could be nestled within the canopy of the little potted Japanese maple on our deck and I might never see it? I mean, it was just a couple of days ago, a mere two posts back. The next day (I’m a little slow on pasting right now,) I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[6854,2505,5524],"class_list":["post-34771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-dryophytes-cinereus","tag-green-treefrog","tag-japanese-maple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}