A semi-regular description of what’s going on at the drift fences on the Savannah River Site. Most will refer to Rainbow Bay--an isolated wetland completely encircled by a drift fence with pitfall traps. The Rainbow Bay fence has been “run” every day since September of 1978! We'll also talk about all types of fieldwork occurring at the Carolina Bays and other wetlands on site.
"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: ‘What good is it?’”--Aldo Leopold
“No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them”--Aldo Leopold
Friday, October 8, 2010
Lizard weather
Well it hasn’t rained in over a week and there’s no rain in sight---so, no salamanders to speak of. But with the fantastic sunny weather we have been seeing a lot of Anolis lizards at both Rainbow Bay and the H-02 wetlands. Many of them are clearly the young from this year and none of them were willing to pose for a photo. The one in the upper left was actually one of the biggest Anolis I’ve seen here. At the H-02 we also got to see this great fence lizard. I don’t get to see them nearly as often. If you like these guys you can read more about the Anolis or Sceloporus. Hopefully we’ll get some rain eventually, I’m more than eager to find buckets full of marlbed salamanders!
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