Sorry to keep you in suspense but last weekend's trip was postponed due to heavy rain. It's been reset for Saturday.
The lowland, stillwater target species are C.pyrrhogaster and H.tokyoensis (Tokyo Salamander), while the highland, river-dwelling target species are H.kimurae (Hida Salamander) and Onychodactylus japonicus (Japanese Clawed Salamander).
Jesper, I'll be sure to post more habitat pics.
Sam, budding amateur naturalist I may be
, but I doubt I'd be able to identify their natural prey items. There is, however, a detailed report around somewhere about it that I'll try to dig out. I met the person who wrote it and he assured me no newts were sacrificed in the process. Their stomachs were pumped, not dissected. One thing I do know is that C.p are fattening up on tadpoles this time of year