Warning. I like critters.
I had another exciting thing happen this weekend.
We had a bunch of people over on Saturday night and while we were all out in the garage (oh come on, think about it, my Hubby lives for motorcycles so he also spends most of his time in the garage. We entertain in there too), one of the guys saw a frog. I went over to investigate because I thought it was weird that the thing wasn't jumping away. Sure enough, it was a treefrog. It was snuggled into a corner of the door. For warmth I guess, being cold blooded and all.
I picked him(her?) up and brought it over to where I was sitting. It crawled all over my hands and up my arm. Sarah (friend) was fascinated and I handed over the little critter to her for a while. She said it looked like the lichen that hangs off the trees in BC, it was the same colour. I told her about my niece who found one of these last year and raised it for about 8 weeks in a terrarium that my brother built for it. She fed it shadflies. It flourished and she would have kept it longer had it not got out and away one day.
So the little critter was a Tetraploid Gray Treefrog. They can change colours to match their environment from brownish gray to a silvery light blue green. These things keep me up at night in early summer with their constant chorus. Our backyard is the perfect environment.
Anyway. The thing snuggled into my hand. I mean, it actually folded it's feet beneath it's chin like two little fists and snuggled it's head on top of them and closed its eyes and rested. It would raise it's head every once in a while when something moved in front of it, but it seemed quite happy to just snuggle against the warmth of my hand. I was singing to it. Brrrrrrt. Brrrrrrrt. The guys thought I was nuts (I do the call quite well since I hear it for hours every night) You can hear the call here.
What a gift that was, I mean what kind of anphibian snuggles? They are such cold creatures. It had no fear at all. I actually considered bringing it into my bedroom for the night, just because it looked so compfy that I did not want to disturb it. Hubby made me let it go.
We had a bunch of people over on Saturday night and while we were all out in the garage (oh come on, think about it, my Hubby lives for motorcycles so he also spends most of his time in the garage. We entertain in there too), one of the guys saw a frog. I went over to investigate because I thought it was weird that the thing wasn't jumping away. Sure enough, it was a treefrog. It was snuggled into a corner of the door. For warmth I guess, being cold blooded and all.
I picked him(her?) up and brought it over to where I was sitting. It crawled all over my hands and up my arm. Sarah (friend) was fascinated and I handed over the little critter to her for a while. She said it looked like the lichen that hangs off the trees in BC, it was the same colour. I told her about my niece who found one of these last year and raised it for about 8 weeks in a terrarium that my brother built for it. She fed it shadflies. It flourished and she would have kept it longer had it not got out and away one day.
So the little critter was a Tetraploid Gray Treefrog. They can change colours to match their environment from brownish gray to a silvery light blue green. These things keep me up at night in early summer with their constant chorus. Our backyard is the perfect environment.
Anyway. The thing snuggled into my hand. I mean, it actually folded it's feet beneath it's chin like two little fists and snuggled it's head on top of them and closed its eyes and rested. It would raise it's head every once in a while when something moved in front of it, but it seemed quite happy to just snuggle against the warmth of my hand. I was singing to it. Brrrrrrt. Brrrrrrrt. The guys thought I was nuts (I do the call quite well since I hear it for hours every night) You can hear the call here.
What a gift that was, I mean what kind of anphibian snuggles? They are such cold creatures. It had no fear at all. I actually considered bringing it into my bedroom for the night, just because it looked so compfy that I did not want to disturb it. Hubby made me let it go.
posted by ria at Monday, June 13, 2005
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