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Blue-Spotted Salamander

Posted by Ben Fishbein,
North Country explorer from Delmar, New York
October 6, 2015 —

I was surveying the St. Lawrence University golf course for amphibians, and I was very surprised to find this salamander relaxing out in the open on some tall grass. These salamanders are usually very hard to find so I took as many photos as I could! Once I set him back down he immediately burrowed into the tall grass and back into the earth.

Comments

Erika Barthelmess

EXCELLENT! So glad that you posted this, as doing so documents its presence here. Nice find, nice pictures - thanks for sharing it!

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Helen Eifert

WOW! I was a counselor at a nature camp in the Hudson Valley and we had our kids look for these little guys in addition to some other salamander and newt species, but we had no such luck :( Great pics!

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