3-20-2011

Today is the first day of spring on the calender, and it's really starting to feel like it. We saw a den of snakes coming out of hibernation. They were garter snakes that liked to stick their tongues out.

Friday I posted about how the Yellow-spotted Salamanders (and Yellow-spotted Finger Nails) are starting to come out of hibernation to lay their eggs (that Google research is now making me think are actually Wood Frog eggs). Tonight we found tons of eggs (whoever they belong to) and tons of salamanders to catch. We saw Swimming salamanders, a swimming frog, this sitting frog, and that sitting frog. We caught everything, but the highlight was this giant Monster Quest sized salamander.