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| The eastern newt or red-spotted newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) is a common salamander of eastern North America. |
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| What is this?!? Jefferson-dominant hybrid? I will likely go back to collect a DNA sample today. Exciting. (Hope it's still in the same place I left it). |
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| The Spotted Salamander or Yellow-spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum |
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| The blue-spotted salamander, or Ambystoma laterale, is a mole salamander native to the Great Lakes states and northeastern United States, and parts of Ontario and Quebec in Canada. |
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| The red back (or redback or red-backed) salamander (Plethodon cinereus) is a small, hardy woodland salamander. It inhabits wooded slopes in Eastern North America; west to Missouri; south to North Carolina; and north from southern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces in Canada to Minnesota. |
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| This American LAdy is about a month early according to my field guide. |
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| Beautiful Green Darner |
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| Yellow-Rumped Warbler - this one was doing a wing flutter (mating?) dance. |
3 comments:
What a fantastic successful outing. Must have been very exciting to find so many salamanders. And with the rain today, I expect that even more will be out??
It was very exciting.
Yesterday with the rain there was a weak amphibian migration. From the road I saw mostly DoR Toads, Leopards and the occasional small peeper (?) - too dark to get a good look. Peepers were calling, weakly.
The salamander you questioned as a Jeffersons complex is a "leadbacked" phase of the redbacked salamander
Jon
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