How early have you found mole salamanders?

[ravenous]

Whats the earliest you've found mole salamanders active? What was the location, date, and temperatures (day/night)

Thank you

 

[john]

Actually, yesterday's stable 65 degrees with soft rain for 24 hours brought out both the A. opacum and A. annulatum in my back yard. N33 50.749', W84 05.018, elevation 981 ft.

Spring peepers and wood frogs awoke, too - the noise is so loud it makes conversation difficult, but I can't bear to shut the windows

(Message edited by duktig on February 22, 2007)

 

[brandon]

John,

you have annulatum in Georgia?

 

[ryan]

I friend of mine found a spotted salamander in his yard sometime in spring or fall (I don't know the details it was a while back.)

 

[john]

Good catch Brandon - meant maculatum, had a brain cramp.

Mea culpa.

 

[brandon]

hey no problem... that would be sweet though.

 

[cameron]

I think they are going to breed in the ponds out here like last year. Probably in March.

 

[cameron]

Or was it April?