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This Week's Amphibian Migration (Greater Cleveland Area)

tspuckler

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It's been raining pretty heavily until early afternoon, but then it stops, but it still is turning out to be very for seeing amphibians.
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Wood Frogs were everywhere. I've never seen so many in one night (I only stayed for an hour). Here's a female heavy with eggs. Unfortunately they didn't close the road like they usually do, so there were quite a few casualties. We called a ranger and he stopped by shortly thereafter to close it.
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Although the Wood Frogs were calling in full force, there weren't many Spring Peepers calling yet. I only saw two on the road.
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Salamanders tend to start crossing a bit later at night, but eventually they made their presence known.
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But the Wood Frogs kept coming too. Sometimes I'd be photographing one and two or three would hop right on by. A few were orange and a few were pink.
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A hybrid/intergrade thing that no one can quite figure out.
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This spotted successfully crossed the "finish line."
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Hey, that's a spotted salamander, but it's not a Ambystoma maculatum. This newt was probably looking to cash in on some tasty amphibian eggs.
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Gray is my favorite color, and this Jefferson's certainly was a fine sight to see.
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It was quite a night!
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