My basement has two windows that are below ground level and each has a recessed area around it lined with 6×9 railroad ties. I was cleaning the leaves and other assorted detritus from one of them today when I noticed a Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) trying to dig into the clay and find some [...]
I’ve been flipping rocks and logs since early February looking for salamanders without success. Today my luck changed. During my lunch break, I walked trail along the spring branch at Watercress and hit paydirt just across the footbridge.
There was a long, 4″ diameter log lying in the edge of the water [...]
One of my very favorite things about the place I live is the small pond in the corner of the yard.
Other than a single goldfish, it’s fishless and teems with life. I’ve identified more than twenty species of dragonflies from it and I can almost always find something to photograph while walking around it.
Today [...]