Tempature: 68F
Humidity: 82%
Pressure: 30.08 in.
Overcast and slight drizzle of rain.

My lower back has been giving me a lot of trouble all week, knotted muscles or something. So I didn’t get out much expt like a little 15 min hike here an there. I had invited my friend Bob C. up to a few of my local areas to have a look around and see if we could find anything and our main target was Box turtles. I had an area from alst year I wanted to check out, though my back told me NO, I decided not to make that climb and just check out some other areas for other things.

Well about 30 mins in to our walk though a part were there are some pools and wetland areas and checking out some ravine and spotted habitat I saw what we were looking for.

Male eastern box turtle:

Bob:

Other Stuff encountered:
Spotted Salamander (same as before)
2 Ravine Salamanders
10+ Bull Frog Tads
Peepers Calling
1 DOR Garter

Meet up wit Bob C. today at 9:30 to do some things for a exhibit tommorow at one of the local colleges. Had a pretty good time there. Then we were definatly in herp mode today and took a trip a little more south to Fayette County.

Hit a few spots myself and John have been to a few times. Lost time for two hours then we desided to check on the copperhead population that everyone knows exist but noone I know has ever seen one. Good thing Bob was there cause I would have never found them where they were. But it was alot of searching to find one then we were on a roll.

Westmoreland County
10+ Redbacks Salamander
10+ Twolineds Salamander
5+ Northern Duskys Salamander
5+ Mtn. Duskys Salamander
2 Slimy Salamander

3 Pickerel Frogs
5+ Green Frogs

Fayette County
10 + Green Frogs

5+ Twolineds Salamander
1 Seal Salamander
5+ Redbacks Salamander
5+ Mtn Duskys Salamander
1 Slimy Salamander
1 Newt
4 unided Ambystoma Resently transformed (maybe spotteds will see)

1 Garter snake- Bob
1 Queen snake- Bob
3 Copperhead -Only two photographed* Have to give bob credit for these.
1 Copperhead Shed
1 Garter Shed
3 Queen Sheds

Bob Looking for the “Poisonous snakes” The Sign told us about. LOL

Copperhead Shed – I think we are getting warmer-

Bob saw this a little ways down – Copper 1

Copper 2

Little Queen that Bob caught

Giant Slimy

Newt

Unided Ambystoma

Pickerel

Green Frog

Yeah I know. Havnt seen me post any of these in a while. I did find one here an there and me and kyra found one last weekend but i didnt post it.
Slowly starting to see some activity again.

Here are two found under a rock.

Adult found under a peice of metal.

Another juvi

An another juvi emerging from tunnel.

A rather successful day. I was scheduled to meet up with one of my herping buddies, but we had to reschedule for next week, so off I went to one of the local spots to see if a group of Ravines were out and about. Was getting late so I decided not to stay to long and just flip a rock or two. The 1st rocks I flip was a Spotted Salamander *Lifer.  Not really expecting to see one around this area and I gave up on finding them at this area awhile back after checking the vernal pools a few times on the other side of the ridge. I was quite content, but decided to search a little longer with no other results. I think my itinerary may have changed for the weekend.

Time:7:00PM
Air Temps-73f
Ground Temps-66f
Clear skies.

Spotted Salamander – 5.5cm

Till next time. Happy Herping.