Still no rain....

..and it is starting to look like the marlbed salamanders are getting desperate.  Absolutely no rain for days and yesterday was hotter than it’s been in a week or so, yet there were about 10-15 marbleds at the drift fence today!  Was pretty surprising, but it’s getting close to the time of year where they’ll move without the right conditions because time’s running short.  Another week or so and we can expect that with any rain at all they’ll come in in bigger numbers.  Also found a surprising number of bullfrog juveniles today---in the bucket pictured above we found one salamander and three bullfrogs---initially all were sharing the same piece of floating wood but only one stayed for a photo!  Not surprising there were also a bunch of Anolis running around.  Had a visitor at the lab last week from Asheville, NC and she said the marbleds have already entered the wetlands in big numbers up there--makes sense they’d be well ahead of us.  I hope the forecast changes---no rain in sight for a week at least.  Not looking great for the marbleds!