Ohiopyle Trip Report

Posted August 25, 2007

Time: 7:45am - 3:00pm
Temps: 74F - 89F
Humidity: 66%
Sky: Clear to Partly Cloudy

Species Found:
1 Red Salamander
20+ RedSpotted Newts
1 Red Salamander
20+ RedSpotted Newts
10 Northern Dusky Salamanders
9 Mountain Dusky Salamanders
2 Redback Salamanders
1 Seal and a Possible 2 others
4 Slimy Salamanders
TMTC Green Frogs
TMTC Unided Frogs

My Lifers:
Red Salamander, Red Phased Redback, 1st Slimy Find.

The Trip:

Myself and John Smith (axp117crow) from fieldherpforum.com took a
herp trip down to Fayette County, PA in and around Ohiopyle State Park.
(detailed locations will not be included).

We met up around 7:40am and started out with a bang.

John Flipped this Red Salamander under a rock in a muddy little pool of water.
Lifer for both of us.

John with Red Salamander

Then up the way we checked some Newt Pools. A few Smaller and Larvae Newts. Counted 3.

Stopped 2 places for Timbers and Copperheads with no luck. And a Stop to take a Outlook shot.

We stopped of a a few locations. One with a Unided Frog and one Northern Dusky.

So next we hit a small pond to find alot of Green Frogs and TMTC Unided Frogs also
A few Northern and Mountain Dusky Salamanders in a near by creek.

Redback near creek. Photo by John.

The Next stop was on the Hit some Creeks for some more Salamanders sence it was getting
late in to the day and hot. Time to Cool Off some.

We Found Alot of Northern and Mountain Dusky Salamanders walking the creek banks.

Seal Salamander.

Northern Dusky

So We desided to Get back to the road when John desided to Flip another rock.
And a great find (seeing as we were flipping so many duskys).

A Nice little Redback.

Myself with a Redback. Photo by John.

Then I deside to Flip the rock close to this one. (just afterI was talking about Slimys)
I flipped this Big Fellow. (we almost lost it and didnt get a photo, it fell and went in a hole,
that ended under a nearby log).