Wildlife in My Backyard, and Other Nature Topics

Introduction In my last post I covered one of the animals I work with at the nature center the grey tree frog. During my last visit there I noticed every type of animal I work with has been a visitor to my backyard. So, I decided to cover them all in the upcoming weeks. This week’s post is going to be on a common spring and summer visitor to my backyard the Eastern American toad.                                                                                      Photo Credit Matt Bell 2018 American Toad in my Backyard Like the gray tree frog, the Eastern A...

Introduction For this week’s post I wanted to write about an amphibian that was the primary reason I wanted to work with animals. This species of amphibian has always been in my backyard no matter where I lived. This week’s post is on the grey tree frog.   Matt Bell 2018 Grey Tree Frogs in my Backyard Since I was a small child living in Pittsburgh the grey tree frog has been part of my life. I remember when I was five or six searching for critters in the yard of my Pittsburgh home. During this search I found a gray frog clinging to the branch of a tree. I still remember grabbing it and being shocked when it started to cling to my arm. Being a young kid, and never seeing a creature like this I thought I had discovered an alien frog. I raced inside to show my mom my finding. She did not know what kind of frog it was, but assured me it was not an alien. Determined to figure out what type of frog it was I search my reptile and amphibian field guide and discovered the a...