Michigan Herping early Fall

[Neotenic_Jaymes]

I had a great time herping today. A lot of rain lately and cool temperatures is perfect herping weather. Found tons of salamanders, fresh morphs and tons of adults. All the adults I found were huge! Seems like they're getting ready for the winter fattening up. Check out the short video.

Michigan fall Salamanders - YouTube

 

[Alejandro]

Very nice, Jaymes. Thanks for sharing.

 

[JessKB]

Jaymes always finds the good stuff when I can't go!

 

[caudatadude28]

I disagree that the just because you found efts, they are not nvls. I find many nvl efts in wisconsin and when I bred my nvls I had both aquatic morphs and efts, more efts than aquatic morphs. I know for a fact that they are nvls. I think it is very different from population to population. I have Some LA locality nvls that are completely aquatic as most people picture nvls when they think of them. I think the newts james found may be a mix but I am uncertain from the pics.

 

[Scorpion]

I've only seen one salamander in the wild in my whole life, let alone so many in one place... It was a small blue-spotted salamander, and it wasn't even me who found it. My grandma found it under a log. I wish I could go on fieldherping adventures like that, but I just don't know where to begin.

 

[JessKB]

I've only seen one salamander in the wild in my whole life, let alone so many in one place... It was a small blue-spotted salamander, and it wasn't even me who found it. My grandma found it under a log. I wish I could go on fieldherping adventures like that, but I just don't know where to begin.

Go to the woods and start flipping logs

 

[Scorpion]

Will do. Thanks