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Dekay's Brownsnake (Storeria dekayi)Observer
timhealyDescription
Sadly freshly road killed
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Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Large individual ran across the trail before I could get a photo. Mostly brown coat with white feet. My first for New York State
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Moose (Alces alces)Observer
timhealyDescription
Tracks found along the trail, seemingly not super fresh but still well-defined
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Smoky Shrew (Sorex fumeus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Several individuals heard well and seen repeatedly as they scurried about in the vegetation adjacent to the bog trail. Small even by shrew standards and compact in shape, almost mouse-like rather than elongated. Tail long compared to my familiar Short-tailed Shrew frame of reference but not gratuitously so, appeared countershaded. Distinctly gray pelage with paler underside. Twittering constantly while scrambling through a series of tunnels amidst the branches, grass stems, and mosses, right across the trail from a flowing stream
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Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Flipped under a log
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Northern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream. Found in the immediate vicinity of several other Northern Duskies, with which it appeared largely consistent in size, structure, and color. I suspect that the tapered appearance of the tail tip is an artifact of the angle, photo quality, and wet mud
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Northern Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata)Observer
timhealyDescription
Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream
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Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Larger individual flipped under a rock
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Northern Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata)Observer
timhealyDescription
Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream
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Northern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream, closely associated with a Two-lined Salamander. Tail appeared laterally compressed and somewhat keeled in life, more closely approaching the impression in the third photo rather than the first two in-hand photos, where the tail is drooping over the finger and partly obscured
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Northern Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata)Observer
timhealyDescription
Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream, with an Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander
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Northern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Flipped under a rock within a small stream. Poor photo quality, but overall build, color pattern, and keeled tail seemed consistent with Northern Dusky, which was encountered mere feet away in the same microhabitat
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Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Larger individual flipped under a log
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Red-spotted Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens ssp. viridescens)Observer
timhealyDescription
Larger individual flipped under a rock
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Northern Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata)Observer
timhealyDescription
Flipped under a rock at the edge of the stream
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Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon)Observer
timhealyDescription
Pair flipped under a large rock at the edge of the stream
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Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus)Observer
timhealyDescription
Larger individual flipped under a rock
