Salamander Update

I went herping with a friend at Bull Pasture Pond tonight and the salamanders are coming out. We saw six or seven spotted salamanders and at least one Jefferson’s. So if you go look, you should find some.

I’ve had a couple people ask me where exactly Bull Pasture Pond is. If you take Blue Grass Lane off of Warren Road (near the Cornell golf course) and follow it down a little hill where there will be a small barn on the left and some ponds and woods on the right. You can park your car there on the road. The best place to find them is in a pond about 200 yards off the road within a wooded area past one of the golf holes. But the other ponds in that area will have them as well.

You’re going to want to walk right into the pond and shine your light down into the water. You’ll see them swimming around.

Also while you’re there you’ll no doubt notice that the spring peepers are out. You won’t see them, but you’ll definitely hear them (be sure to listen to the sound clip on that link if you’re not sure what a spring peeper sounds like). As I’ve heard it, last night you couldn’t hear any peepers but tonight they were peeping. In the next few weeks the peepers will get so loud it’s almost deafening.

 

We saw a bunch of people out there, too. Anybody reading?