Newt and American Bullfrog

Herpers,

Kiley Briggs forwarded this.  It is not our newt.  It looks like a Rough-skinned Newt from out west.  They are more toxic than our Eastern Newts.

Matt Gorton and I were doing some herp survey in Fairfax yesterday.  We saw scores of recently metamorphosed Pickerel Frogs, a single young Spring Peeper, and a few young Wood Frogs as well as Northern Dusky, Northern Two-lined, and Eastern Red-backed Salamanders, Eastern Newts, Green Frogs, and Common Gartersnakes.  Our target species were Spring Salamander and American Bullfrog for Fairfax, but we did not locate either of those two.

Jim

Kiley > Got a kick out of this: https://youtu.be/ppR5kBpE7VU