Pair of Suburban Pacific Tree Frogs in NW Oregon

[irThumper]

These guys came to the micro-eco frog habitat we built in front of our apartment this July 2014. Hopefully more will show up!

[Mentat]

That is so cool, congrats ! Maybe will get lucky and have tadpoles in there soon !

[Bombina Bob]

Great! Is it a 1.1 pair?

[irThumper]

Actually I don't know the sexes of these guys, they are all half grown. I have some idea but none of them have dark throat sacks so obviously no breeding males. We actually had frog #7 show up last night! Smallest of them so far, just a bit less than frogs 1 and 4. Will get screen captures up of him or her today I hope they overwinter fine and do breed here in the spring, that would rock! We are having temps near 100 today and 102 tomorrow D: so I hope they get down into the nice wet moss. Am planning on putting together another "pond" for them today... I may be pushing the boundaries here at the apt with the habitat, but I don't care, heh.

[Bombina Bob]

I have two male PCFs and they are really quiet because of the heat, but they are hanging in there! Try keeping the area wet with a water hose, The frogs should be much more active in fall and winter, i remember when cutting down a Christmas tree, i found a small chorus frog hop past me! they will usually hide until nightfall.

[irThumper]

These video capture shots are of #7, the latest to show up after setting up our suburban frog habitat

[Jessalyn]

Ahh I love seeing all the different colors of PCFs I live in SW Washington, I've mostly only seen tadpoles so far. And it should be cooling down hopefully, I'm tired of this heat!

[irThumper]

For sure there, Jessalyn! I'm beginning to wonder if we flip flopped weather with Missouri! (my best friend lives there) I can't stand the heat and humidity, I'm a NW Oregon gal, we don't do HOT humidity, lol :P I love the varying colors of these guys myself, it's awesome how they can change shades/patterns too