finally

So for the last few weeks I have been goig to this one spot looking for some marbled salamanders and have not been able to find a thing. Part of it has been because it has been so hot. (It may reach 90 degrees today, should be in the 70's). But are also experiancing an extreme drought this year. We are about 13 inches under our normal rain fall. We had some nice rains last week, but I had to ehad out of the woods because the rain started to come down harder and i was seeing lightning.

But, finally last night I found one. It was the only one I found, but I had a hard time looking, as I thought the mosquitos were going to take me away. (No standing water anywhere, extreme drought, yet the mosquitos were everywhere.) Needless to say, I will be traveling back there to see if I can get some better pictures.

It's hard to tell, but that animal looks huge! How big was it?

It was about 4 inches in lenght, give or take.

Nice find! Marbleds are so gorgeous. I wish we had them up here.

congrats on the find, the tail looks long for a marbled...maybe thats just the camera angle

AWesome! I love Marbleds, I had one when I was little my Grandfather found for quite some time before he expired. But in that time he lived well and was lots of fun to watch!

That thing is huge and his tail is way longer than he is,....strange.