it's mothersday and the wife went out with her family and I got a day off herping in. my main goal was a northern two lined and a pickerel frog. after I struck out on the two lined I tried and see how many herps i could see in a day.
first stop was a pond on my mothers property good for the usual
green frog
northern leopard frogs
and a pickerel frog
and it's belly
i also saw a few midland painteds but was waiting to go to another spot for pics
old beaver pond
ok so I walked around this whole thing hoping to find some good sized snappers, no luck but a few critters were out and about
midland painted turtle carapace,
and of course a plastron shot of the same turtle
also kicked up some northern watersnakes, 22 to be exact
an older pic
this is a crummy pic, but I couldn't get to close this snake was eating a bullfrog
also a few northern ribbonsnakes
ok so I get done walking around that. time to get the northern twolined salamander......but instead this and a very crummy pic. not to good a photoing sals.
northern dusky salamander
no twolined this day but a few northerrnred backs were seen
I also fount some red spotted newts first is the eft stage one
and an adult
ok with the day going good and striking out on my target species, they are fairly common just haven't seen one yet this year. decided to go flip some trash here
and found some more snakes first a few garetrs
finally a eastern milk and a screamer moved to road for pics.
and quite a surprise for this area a northern ringneck snake
and one in hand to close out the day
saw and not photoed were
TMTC bullfrogs very sketchy
wayne
