Last night Ro went out to photograph moths on our house in Leisuretown. She found a Barking Tree Frog - Hyla gratiosa - on the front garage door frame, and a Spring Peeper - Hyla crucifer - on the back outside wall, facing a wet grassy swale and Pine Barrens woods 100 feet to the rear. Across the stree out front is a block long retention basin which fills up with water in rains, and hosts several kinds of frogs.
House Frogs
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CORRECTION
From a college trained naturalist with 40 years field experience - Floyd Williams in NC:
"The critter is a Gray Treefrog. The white mark below the eye and the orange on the underside of the hind leg are diagnostic. They can be confusing when they are green instead of gray. Your frog is almost surely Hyla versicolor instead of H. chrysoscelis since the latter barely makes it into NJ. They are visually identical and can only be told apart by call or DNA."
We didn't get to see its underside and it was silent.
Sorry to be misleading......
From a college trained naturalist with 40 years field experience - Floyd Williams in NC:
"The critter is a Gray Treefrog. The white mark below the eye and the orange on the underside of the hind leg are diagnostic. They can be confusing when they are green instead of gray. Your frog is almost surely Hyla versicolor instead of H. chrysoscelis since the latter barely makes it into NJ. They are visually identical and can only be told apart by call or DNA."
We didn't get to see its underside and it was silent.
Sorry to be misleading......
WE have chrysoscelis down here in Cumberland county.I know one pond that has both frogs in it along with PBTF.The northern and southern (Copes_ grey treefrogs can easily be told apart by voice but you are right,you can't tell them apart by looks.barkers are south of Jersey.They occur in delaware and at one time there was a planted colony in cape may county but it disappeared.They do sound like dogs barking.