pic three is streamside or cave salamandars (the two species are almost identical looking and i'm not as obsessive about sallies as i am snakes, cave's i believe are a bit brighter than the streamside) pic five is a spotted salamander basically they are in the same family as the marbled and tiger, very large bodied robust salamander they come out the first warm day in spring (or winter) right after the first good rain to lay their eggs in the woodland pools. I just had an opportunity to work with NYS DNR on the migration to document some of these pools they are a really cool species large robust salamanders, they must be fairly fossorial because you rarely see them after the period of activity in early spring. Since you like the sallies heres a few more pics from the trip.......
oh and this is kind of a fun one that i forgot to post from the trip see how many cottonmouths you can find in this pic, it's sort of a venomous "where's waldo"
