Current mood:

accomplished

Salamandering last night!
We went out sally hunting last night. Wasent as rainy as I would have liked (to have the salamanders moving) but we found one!



We walked for a long time befor finding him and couldnt get to his pond but oh well....I'm fairly sure I know what pond hes going to and we are going to try landowner contact...as sneeking onto their property last night felt a little to criminal. And would not be good for our reputation if we were caught or anything....

He looks more Jefferson like to me than he does Blue Spoted like...but I'm not going to try to call it. We went to the recovery team training workshop and Bogard had some of the yearlings we had colected as eggs last year. They were LJJs but to me they looked like Blue Spoteds! They were so covered with blue spots! so now I am not going to try and guess....cuz untill we get the DNA tests back we will not know. So this guy got the tip of his tail cut off for testing. He was right behind our office, Kim was gidy about that. That was kinda cool. Then we headed back to the van, double checked the pool in the middle of the lain and headed back to the office. Everyone wanted to go home! It was 10:30!! Prime movement time! (In my opinion!) so I said I was going to stay out. I stoped by 'C', had no luck. Got a little freeked out...the ponds there creeped me out because they look so deep and have so much wood in them. Creaped me out. So I didn't wander through the bush, and didnt find any.

Then I stoped by 'GJ' Woods, got back to the pond started to make a circle around it and heard some coyotes howling...got freeked out and headed back to the car. Strange thing was that that pond was still almost totaly iced over, the others were all ice free.

Then I stoped by 'M'. Prity much garanteed to find some little ones there. And I did. Very little ones. Looked like yearlings again. I took 3 tail tips, thats all the vials I had with me, THEN I come across the biggest one there. Yesh.... would have loved to get a sample of him as big ones are so rare there and I'm not sure why. I suspect there must be some sort of preditors eating them as some I come across have lighter looking tails and I suspect that they have lost their tail to a preditor (and the tail grows back).

Anyways...I'll stop rambling about crazy naturalist stuff.
Overall not a bad night.
Hope eventualy to find some at 'C' and 'GJ' tho.....and very very interested to see what the 'M' ones turn out to be!