Got a whole 8mm of rain yesterday. Went to Rainbow Bay first thing this morning and really didn't expect to see too many marbled salamanders. figured they used last night to play the mating game and on the next rainy night they'd start leaving the bay. Turns out a few had had enough already. Totally surprised to find several "handfuls" of salamanders in the first few buckets. Still had a few stragglers just now making it into the bay as well! Plus a bunch of bull frog juveniles passing through. Plus the newt we saw enter the bay a few weeks ago decided it was time to go. It will certainly take a LOT more than 8mm of rain to get the bay to start filling. Such is the life of a pond-breeding amphibian, some years things work out, some years they don't. This year isn't lookin' so good.
Got a whole 8mm of rain yesterday. Went to Rainbow Bay first thing this morning and really didn't expect to see too many marbled salamanders. figured they used last night to play the mating game and on the next rainy night they'd start leaving the bay. Turns out a few had had enough already. Totally surprised to find several "handfuls" of salamanders in the first few buckets. Still had a few stragglers just now making it into the bay as well! Plus a bunch of bull frog juveniles passing through. Plus the newt we saw enter the bay a few weeks ago decided it was time to go. It will certainly take a LOT more than 8mm of rain to get the bay to start filling. Such is the life of a pond-breeding amphibian, some years things work out, some years they don't. This year isn't lookin' so good.
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