As my friends will tell you, I anthropormorphize worse than anyone you’ve ever seen. And so it is in that vein that I like to think that I see some of the same faces year after year. For example, today I found this young Garter Snake right where I last saw him before “bedtime” last fall. Do I have any scientific basis for this assumption? Of course not. But I’d swear he’s giving me that, “Oh no, you again?” look…
Had an opportunity to accompany biologist & friend Blaine Rothhauser of BR Environmental on a nighttime trip to a “secret” vernal pool. While these State-Endangered Blue-Spotted Salamanders were not active in the pool, Blaine found this little guy under the first dead log he turned over. I, on the other hand, turned over a lot of logs, and found a Red-Backed Salamander (amphibian equivalent of a Robin…), and a lot of Carpenter Ants… That’s why he gets the big bucks… Click the thumbnail photo for more info.