Looks like I picked the wrong year to start blogging about drift fences! Today it's 75 degrees and dry. Been that way for a while and all forecasts suggests we'll have a very dry winter. It's the La Niña aftermath of our wonderfully wet El Niño year last year. I feel bad for the over 1500 salamanders that made the trek to the bay and are now just hanging out waiting for a rainy night to set the mood for a night of salamander lovin'. In thinking of all those salamanders I figured I'd share another photo from the big migration day. Each bin you see on the right has anywhere from 50-100 marbled salamanders (and one slimy salamander and a few bullfrog juveniles). On the left is Brett DeGregorio who has been helping run the fence lately (and he's a New England Patriots fan like me so we're still recovering from Sunday's awful game).
who knows? maybe it is climate change? oh wait, if that is true then the next thing you know folks will be talkin' 'bout evolution...
ReplyDeleteYeah, maybe one of these days we can post your graph showing the hydroperiod changes over the last 30 years!
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