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Old 03-26-04, 05:12 PM   #1
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3 - Ambystoma jeffersonianum found today....

Myself and Jordan found three of these guys today in Mississauga. There is a very small strip of wooded area that Jeff H. had said these sally's could be found. Sure enough within 20 minutes we found a few. These salamanders were quite large and looked more like jeffersonianum than any others I have seen. Of course only DNA analysis could tell us exactly what they are.

We also saw a few dozen red-backed salamanders. Including a couple "lead" phase. Again, these salamanders were larger than average.

I think Jordan is going to post pictures later....?
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Old 03-27-04, 04:02 PM   #2
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Wish I was home, My Dad went our salamander spot and had 11 newts, 29 jeffersons salamanders, and 112 spotted salamanders that he counted last night.
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Not too shabby.... lol
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Old 03-28-04, 04:58 PM   #4
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Your not kidding, I think the most I ever found was maybe a dozen ot two of each species at a time. I'd like to see the pictures to see if theres much colour variation between the Jeffersons I have found.
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I know a spot where you can find 200+ Blue spots in a day.

This strip of forrest where we found the Jeff's wasn't very big so I doubt that there's a huge population there.
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heres the pics that makes the post complete!

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Old 03-29-04, 03:43 PM   #7
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Wow real neat little guys.

Sweet.

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Old 04-01-04, 07:21 PM   #8
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Hey! Just got back from the same place. Found four Jefferson's and six red-backs (including two lead-backs) in 45 minutes. Neat little place in the middle of urban sprawl!

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Sounds liek the red-back population has dropped! lol
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Funny. i just got back from the place agian. kinda cold agian. but found 15 red backs 4 led backs and a brown snake no jeffersons
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Old 04-01-04, 09:37 PM   #11
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Cool! I was hoping to find a brown snake. I was there last June. Found brown and garter snakes, and red-backs but no Jeffies. I'm glad I didn't find all that many red-backs. Frankly, I'm kind of sick of them, from finding them by the hundreds in Oakville Creek.

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I consider them to be a pest species at Oakville creek. Sort of the cane toad of Oakville!
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Old 04-02-04, 05:52 PM   #13
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I wonder if red-backs are edible.... Stew, anyone? LOL. I'll post some pics of my Jefferson's just as soon as the computer with Photoshop is back up and running.

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