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urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2006-04-03 09:00 am
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I witnessed the beginning of the salamander migration and all I got were these blurry photographs

It was dusk and rainy, so these are pretty substandard. But I promised, so here they are.

[identity profile] zipotle.livejournal.com 2006-04-03 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
NEAT!
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[identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com 2006-04-03 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, they're so pretty!

We haven't got them here. We do have newts but they don't do fun things like migration - they don't even come out of the water very often. Still fun things to watch though.

[identity profile] serendith.livejournal.com 2006-04-03 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Cute! Also, Just to continue to weigh in on the greatness that is NC - I have to say something after the comment made about my area being brown with "long leaf pines" (Long leaf pine forests are a good thing! they give homes to Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers!) - we actually have more salamanders then you can find most anywhere else.

And thus I can't help sharing one of my own pictures taken last year of an Ambystoma opacum that I found while looking for beetle grubs under logs:

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[identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com 2006-04-03 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
omg! adorable!!

[identity profile] dragonwrites.livejournal.com 2006-04-03 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
COOL!

[identity profile] bezigebij.livejournal.com 2006-04-03 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, but they're very cool, blurry photographs.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_bazilisk_/ 2006-04-03 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, Salandar migration! I've always wanted to see that...cool, cool, cool! Thanks much for these pictures.

[identity profile] artemii.livejournal.com 2006-04-03 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
awesome!

(now that's one thing i've never seen here in urbania!)

[identity profile] markurock.livejournal.com 2006-04-04 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
That's great! Those pics were cool! We used to play with salamnders when we were kids (up here in Washington)

[identity profile] bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com 2006-04-04 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
Dude, you need to come here and take pics of the Grunions running. NOW that is a SIGHT TO SEE!!!

[identity profile] almeda.livejournal.com 2006-05-13 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
THose ones happen to be Ambystoma maculatum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Salamander), which is an endangered species here in Illinois, but less rare on the eastern seaboard, I understand.

My stepfather spent most of my childhood conducting longitudinal population studies on Ambystoma laterale in a local natural area, with up to 200 of them in our basement at once. :->