Spring Peeper??

This is, as you can maybe tell from the mown grass it is in, a very small frog. At first I thought it might be a very young Pickerel Frog, but I am thinking it is actually a Spring Peeper. Anyone with more definite knowledge could easily talk me out of the identification. I would even believe a convincing argument that it is a toad.  If I had put a quarter down it would have completely covered the frog, and a nickle would have covered the body. If you are viewing this on a monitor or laptop, the frog in the image is probably 3 to 4 times life size (depending on your viewing screen). It was making hard work of moving through the grass. It basically had to climb over the stalks.

Canon SX50HS. Program with my usual modifications. 1800mm equivalent field of view. f6.5 @ 1/640th @ ISO 800. Processed in Lightroom.

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