Jefferson
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Here in metro Detroit, the weather is cooling down, the skies are fading to gray, and cool fall rains are beginning to fall. Along with that trend, I took the opportunity to visit a local nature park and search for some sallies. I found a few Wood Frogs within the first few minutes of hiking, saw some interesting birds, and then flipped a beauty of an Ambystoma- a Tremblay's Salamander. I still use the three-subspecies system for the hybrid unisexuals (Tremblay's, Silvery, Kelley's Island) just because I think it's cool. Immediately upon seeing its blue spots, my first inclination was to just mark it down as another laterale, but the shape of its head and the ridges on it then caught my attention and made me remember the Jefferson's and Kelley's Island Salamanders that I had seen in Ohio. What a cool sally, and if we get some nighttime rain here in MI, I could finally capitalize on all of my Eastern Tiger research. Happy herping everyone!
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