frogshooter
New member
Hello forum-goers,
This will be a bit long, because I need to explain why I'm here.
I just found caudata.org, as I was Googling for more information on spotted salamanders … trying to find out if they actually FREEZE when they are under the forest floor in the winter. Do they? ( I have read that their companion migrators, wood frogs, DO freeze.)
Upon reading a comment from someone wishing they could see the migration, I immediately realized that I better tell you folks about my situation, which is quite extraordinarily convenient for salamander-watching.
I have a vernal pool in my back yard, and a road between the pond and the upland woods, and every spring I go out and photograph the salamanders crossing the road!
I have ended up with so many photos of pond critters (mostly frogs) over the 6 years I have lived here, I created a web site to start sharing them all. One of the site pages is "Salamander Night". (I have many more salamanders to post, so far only posted the ones from 2009) .The site is a photo journal of my pond… hopefully not violating the website-mentioning rules. (My photo-licensing line at the bottom is just part of a copyright notice to discourage photo-poachers.) You’ll see a link to “salamander night” under QUICK HOPS in the left column on the home page.
Salamander night 2010 is coming up in a few weeks… this will be the 4th one I have photographed.
I'll have to figure out how to post images here... I see an "images" link over there on the right.
Happy hunting... and I'll be back with pictures after Salamander Night 2010, in about three weeks.
Frogshooter
This will be a bit long, because I need to explain why I'm here.
I just found caudata.org, as I was Googling for more information on spotted salamanders … trying to find out if they actually FREEZE when they are under the forest floor in the winter. Do they? ( I have read that their companion migrators, wood frogs, DO freeze.)
Upon reading a comment from someone wishing they could see the migration, I immediately realized that I better tell you folks about my situation, which is quite extraordinarily convenient for salamander-watching.
I have a vernal pool in my back yard, and a road between the pond and the upland woods, and every spring I go out and photograph the salamanders crossing the road!
I have ended up with so many photos of pond critters (mostly frogs) over the 6 years I have lived here, I created a web site to start sharing them all. One of the site pages is "Salamander Night". (I have many more salamanders to post, so far only posted the ones from 2009) .The site is a photo journal of my pond… hopefully not violating the website-mentioning rules. (My photo-licensing line at the bottom is just part of a copyright notice to discourage photo-poachers.) You’ll see a link to “salamander night” under QUICK HOPS in the left column on the home page.
Salamander night 2010 is coming up in a few weeks… this will be the 4th one I have photographed.
I'll have to figure out how to post images here... I see an "images" link over there on the right.
Happy hunting... and I'll be back with pictures after Salamander Night 2010, in about three weeks.
Frogshooter
