Last Salamandra trip of the year

[Paul Bachhausen]

Last night we made our last "Salamanderwanderung" of this year, Remscheid, near Solingen-Burg.
Right time, right place - app. 80 Salamanders.

Juvenil with small red parts:


Hi:


here the winter will be no problem:


more:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/salamanderseiten/sets/72157648777322456/

Paul

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Interesting to see you also get animals with these reddish parotoid glands.
Don't stop too soon

[Matthijs Hollanders]

I saw one with a touch of brown near the River Ourthe last week as well. What's the deal with it?

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

I saw one with a touch of brown near the River Ourthe last week as well.

Not with your Bunderbos shoes, I hope.

What's the deal with it?

It's very rare in my population and probably also fades with age. Not much to tell otherwise.

[Matthijs Hollanders]

Well, in order to give the Bunderbos genetics a fighting chance I released some animals at that spot in Belgium.

On a side note, it had rained there all week and even during the day when I was there and the beech dominated forest was wet with temps around 10°C. I only found about 20 animals in about 2 hours.

[Niklas Ban]

Maan bad that I didn't had time.. Great !

[Paul Bachhausen]

Interesting to see you also get animals with these reddish parotoid glands.

I visit different Population since many years. In all this reddish parotoid glands are rare!

Don't stop too soon

Not the end of my personal observation, only of the program "Salamanderwanderung".
Not in the Population Solingen/Remscheid, but in two other populations (Ratingen and Mülheim) I found my last Salamandra in December and my first in January.

But the next meeting of our group "Salamanderwanderung" will be a fieldherping Konferenz:
http://www.salamanderseiten.de/salamanderwanderung/Tagung_2014.html
Paul

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

On a side note, it had rained there all week and even during the day when I was there and the beech dominated forest was wet with temps around 10°C. I only found about 20 animals in about 2 hours.

Local abundance varies a great deal naturally.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

I found my last Salamandra in December and my first in January.

Same here. If anything, low activity seems here more marked in (early) summer than in mild winters. The winter drop usually comes with the colder temps towards later in January and February.