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Hyla the Spring Peeper LbNA #46820 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Feb 25, 2009
Location:
City:Milford
County:Hillsborough
State:New Hampshire
Boxes:1
Planted by:heartbandits
Found by: The CountryWalker
Last found:Apr 26, 2009
Status:FF
Last edited:Feb 25, 2009
Hyla, the Spring Peeper is a tree frog.

She is very tiny. Hardly one and a half inches long. Her color is tan to brown to gray with a dark X mark on the back. She has large toe pads.

She lives in wooded areas in or near permanent or temporarily flooded ponds and swamps. She hibernates under logs and loose bark.
The Spring Peeper is one of the most familiar frogs in the East, although its nighttime chorus -- one of the first signs of spring -- is heard far more often than the frog is seen. Her voice is a high-pitched ascending whistle, sometimes with a short trill, given once per second, in a multiple-frog chorus: PREEP-preep, PREEP-preep.
Like all tree frogs she is a reluctant jumper. She is arboreal and adapted to walking and climbing. Her toe tips are expanded into sticky adhesive pads used in climbing. Cartilage between the last two bones of each toe allows the tip of the toe to swivel backward and sideways while keeping the sticky toe pad flat against the climbing surface.

To find Hyla take Mason Road to Burns Hill. Shortly after going up the hill, and across from a big house on the left with some of its windows boarded up, take a right into a parking lot. You will see a kiosk with a trail map and other information. Walk down the knoll to the right of the kiosk and through the opening between two posts. Take an almost immediate left up the hill. When you come out of the woods the meadow will be on your right and the forest on your left. Walk a short distance and you will see the opening to Hazel trail on your left. Take this trail. Go over a wooden footbridge and later over a bridge made from two granite slabs. Cross the granite bridge and take a right. You will see a tree in front of you with a yellow marker and a line with two arrows pointing left or right. Take a left and you will see a stone wall to your left. Step behind the wall and look under the first huge rock on top of the wall..
It is there that you will find Hyla.
When you find Hyla, please feed her a spider.
Happy trails