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SS, find home

November 02, 2018 - Anyone who knows me even slightly soon discovers my affection for amphibians. This love often, particularly in the early...
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Frog in the coalmine

September 12, 2017 - My wife was alarmed when she noticed this Pickerel Frog trying to swim in a small pool of water that had gathered in a t...
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Who's that lady?

April 13, 2017 - After the necessary trip to the town dump... er, landfill... no, make that transfer station... my reward for the hard wo...
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Deformed foot

February 27, 2017 - When the amphibians came out of hiding and hibernation last Saturday night, I made sure to collect a few to show to my g...
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Spring business

March 20, 2016 - On my to-do list was a crack-of-dawn trek up Lantern Hill with a group of celebrants who would watch the Westerly Morris...
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Lookin' for a home

March 18, 2016 - There are other fascinating critters besides the prominent Wood Frogs and Spotted Salamanders out and about in the verna...
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Big macs

March 11, 2016 - After a few last days in hiding, the Spotted Salamanders finally came out of their subterranean below-the-frost-line hau...
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Big macs

April 07, 2015 - The first Spotted Salamanders, a.k.a. "macs"—a reference to their Latin name, Ambystoma maculatum —came out on the night...
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