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Sunday, Aug 28 survey update (lots of pics)

DeanAlessandrini Aug 28, 2005 06:27 PM

This morning the fog was thick in the early morning. Here a shore bird (species?) forages.

The Cope’s gray tree frogs had finally completely metamorphosed today, check out these cute little guys.

Although there was little evidence of adult softshell turtles, this was by far the best day yet for babies. In all, we found approx 5 or 6 young spiny softshells and probably close to TWENTY baby smooth softshells!
A couple smoothies here:

A spiny (left) and 2 smooths

It was a good day for babies! Only one of these is a spiny, the rest are the more rare smooth softshells.

Polly was finally able to see the adorable baby turtles.

This longnose gar had been disguarded by a fisherman. Check out the teeth on this thing!


Replies (3)

tdr Aug 28, 2005 07:28 PM

Nice finds today, Dean. I regret not being able to make it.

Todd

chameleon76 Aug 29, 2005 11:33 AM

i really enjoy checking the forum on mon mornings to see if you did any surveys or took any field pics i really enjoy them and seem to learn something everytime wish i could get some good herping in and post pics but been way to busy unfortunantly
thanks for posting great pics!!

theslidermike Aug 29, 2005 08:23 PM

Great work, Dean! I can't imagine finding over 20 baby smooths in a day. Thats awesome! I wish I could have made it down there, but I'm going to have to start cutting my herping trips down until the gas prices drop
~Mike

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