Tadpole identification assistance

[teslas intern]

Well I signed up for photobucket, and unfortunately my camera phone won't focus on tadpoles in less than crystal clear water, in less than perfectly clean glass... Isn't there some key identifier besides the seemingly optional red tail that I can use to tell the species apart?

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Gray tree frogs have lateral eyes, and wood frogs have bilateral eyes

[teslas intern]

Phootobucket isn't working (invalid file type), not that my photos are any good anyway... The pupils are circular, but have a dark area on either side, that makes them appear elongated.

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Here is the link I found this out from
https://www.trentu.ca/biology/berril...ationTable.htm

[teslas intern]

That's actually helpful, I think I have gray's. The eyes can be seen bulging out a bit when looking at them from above, so that means tree frog, not wood frog. I guess I'll just wait it out...

[teslas intern]

As an update, three of the tadpoles died, and one of them transformed, into something that was clearly not a gray tree frog. So I left them all go where I found them. I guess I'll hunt down some tadpoles next year, life is too busy for me to worry about it for now anyway...

[Cliygh and Mia 2]

Could they have been chorus frogs?

[LilyPad]

Give it a couple of weeks and then hunt for the grey tads. I know around here, they aren't quite going yet. I am TERRIBLE at tad ID, but just keep listening for them to be calling at the water areas at night. I usually go out in the field several times during the spring to see who is breeding where...you get a really good idea of what tads will be where.