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By KEB

Pacific Northwest tree frog

It’s official! Our tree frog is female. From Wikipedia: “The males are usually smaller than the females and have a dark patch on their throats. The dark patch is the vocal sac, which stretches out when the male is calling.”
I thought I had Blipped our tree frog before, but I haven’t, so I owe a bit of an explanation.
A friend of ours who lives on a lake gave us two pots of Pitcher plants . She told us the tree frogs love the plants because they can hide out in the plants and have a source of food nearby, the insects that are attracted to the plants. We put the pitcher plant pots at the edge of our pond. The pots came with at least one tree frog.
We have never seen her out of her manmade hideout in with the plants (PVC pipe with an angle at the top to imitate the curved part of the plant).
She is always in her hiding place first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

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