Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Wildlife Management Really Tiny Frog!

Has anyone ever seen a frog like this? One picture shows it next to a quarter for comparison, really tiny! The dark spot on it's back is not part of it's coloring but is a piece of weed. I found him while weeding my flowers. I've seen another just as tiny in my rocks around my pond earlier in the summer but it was gray.

Common tree frog.. I've got tons of them on my house they love the landscape lighting at night.. They can range in color of gray to green to brown.. It's a young one..

cool looking frog...but he better be mighty careful around the pond

Tree frog (western gray tree frog).


Another small frog, a western chorus frog.


A freshly hatched toad (bufo woodhousii)


More freshly hatched toads.

How long does a toad tadpole take to developed into a frog.. I know bullfrogs are a couple years

Two months or less for a Woodhouse tad to become a toad. Fish won't eat Woodhouse toad tad, they taste nasty.

Top frog is also called a Grey Tree Frog. Tons of them around here, several are residents in my son's playground.

Only tads in WNY that take more than one year are the Bullfrogs. None of those yet in my pond.

Lots of Grey Tree Frog tads, Toads tads, Leopard frogs, and Green frogs. Had an amazing toad orgy this spring due to the burst of warm weather. Brand new pond, freshly filled, and thousands of toads showed up and had themselves a party while I was finishing work on seeding and raking. Dragged the family down to see the event it was so incredible.

Tad development rate has much to do with water temperature and available food. They developed into hoppers really early this year since it was so warm. Now we see toads and all types of frogs everywhere, and I couldn't be happier.

Thank you everyone for your responses and pictures. That is the smallest frog that I have ever seen, you could have put 2 of them on that quarter. It looks like it is an Eastern Gray Treefrog. What an amazing little frog.

I found out it can change colors like a chameleon but not as quickly and it can also turn off the pattern on it's skin. How wild, anything that changes color fascinates me (like cuttlefish). I didn't know we had anything like this in Michigan. The DNR occurrence map shows "species not found" for my township. I wish I would have kept him for a few days just to watch and I hope I'm lucky enough to see one again.

we find 'em in the darn'dest places