Salamander "Hunting"!!

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HD_Cruisin8

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Hi all! Just wanted to share my experience of salamander "hunting" that I went on today! It sounds very dorky and/or geeky, and in many ways it is, but it was lots of fun! A group of people(in herpetology club at school), including me, went to a local park today to go searching for salamanders(our main focus), frogs, or just about any creature we could find. We went on a few trails in the park and probably rolled every log we could to find salamanders. We found a swamp like area, where one of the guys went down into - up to his chest - and it was about 50 degrees outside! The whole while we hadn't found anything but a somewhat rare frog for this time of the year(my friend found it). Leaving the swamp, I was off to the side away from the others(who were all spread out), I rolled a log, and found the first salamander of the day! It was a white spotted slimy salamander.. very cool looking. My teacher(group leader) took some pics of the salamander and the frog(mentioned above). In the two and a half hours we were out searching, we found four salamanders, three frogs, and a bunch of tadpoles. If you're interested in seeing a few of the photos that were taken, you can go to http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/luvmy_bxr_paisley/album?.dir=/fe08 The photos are very good resolution.. all credit for them go to my teacher! Hope I haven't bored you too much! It was "funner" than it sounds..hehe :) ttyl.
 

hanley

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Sounds like fun too me, my kind of day.Did paisley go? My Susie & Cletus love looking for frogs.I love spending days like that ,a good stress reliever for me!Hanley
 

HD_Cruisin8

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Nah.. Paisley didn't go.. She would've been ALL over everywhere. I don't know if I could have taken her and been exactly safe on some of the terrain we were on. Some of it we very steep grades.. especially the one going up from the swamp/pond, the hill where I found the salamander. I think it would've been quite insane and probably hilarious if I HAD taken Paisley though! She did ride with my mom to take me there..hehe.
 
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