PHOTOGRAPHS MAWS

Please feel free to send me your favorite wetland and wildlife related photos. Please request permission to reprint any of the photos.

Freshwater bryozoans. Photos taken during a freshwater mussel survey on Powder Mill Pond in Peterborough, NH. Freshwater bryozoans are fairly common and are found in warm water lakes, streams, and rivers usually attached to submerged sticks. It is a living organism composed of a colony of zooids which are filter feeding creatures. (Ashley Leen, Kleinschmidt Associates).
Freshwater bryozoans. Photos taken during a freshwater mussel survey on Powder Mill Pond in Peterborough, NH. Freshwater bryozoans are fairly common and are found in warm water lakes, streams, and rivers usually attached to submerged sticks. It is a living organism composed of a colony of zooids which are filter feeding creatures. (Ashley Leen, Kleinschmidt Associates).
Photo taken during a freshwater mussel survey on the Contoocook River in Peterborough, NH. Freshwater sponges are typically found in clear, well-oxygenated lakes and rivers (Ashley Leen, Kleinschmidt Associates).
Fairy shrimp (Eubranchipus sp.) located in an old quarry pool in Aroostook County (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates).
Northern leopard frog egg mass from an Aroostook County farm pond (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates).
American toads (Bufo americanus) in amplexus - found in a shallow pool in a former sandpit (Laura Lapierre, Normandeau Associates).
Caddisfly predation on a wood frog egg mass taken on a project in Brewer (Chet Bigelow, James W. Sewall Company).
Photo taken during a mitigation site inspection of MEDOT's mitigation for Rt. 9. This was restoration of a former roadbed. It has a stream running down through it and joining a larger one in the foreground. This was taken about 2 growing seasons after construction (Ruth Ladd, ACOE).
D-netting for critters during a mitigation site inspection at a created vernal pool in Yarmouth, Maine (Ruth Ladd, ACOE).
Nice close-up of a wood turtle found on a mitigation site in Scarborough - note the remnants of orange slugs and the caterpillar leg sticking out from it's formidable beak (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates)
Trying to seek relief from the hot morning sunshine I suppose, this wood frog was observed moving backwards into the cool and shady gullet of a garter snake who lives near a vernal pool in Winslow, ME. (Photo and description by Don Phillips, Phillips Ecoservices)
Twelve spotted skimmer (Libellula pulchella) found within a wetland adjacent to a small stream in upstate New York. These dragonflies are often found along lakes, ponds, marshes, and slow moving streams (Steve Knapp, Kleinschmidt USA).
Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis sauritus) observed feasting then fleeing a vernal pool in Windham, Maine (Stephenie Swiezynski, TRC Environmental).
Wood Turtle (Clemmys insculpta) - a Maine-listed Species of Special Concern - found lumbering across a logging road in western Maine - (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates.)
Big 'ol northern water snake (Nerodia s. sipedon) observed in Raymond Pond in Raymond, Maine (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates).
Northern Leopard Frog (Rana pipiens) - Maine-listed Species of Special Concern (due to apparent decline of southern Maine population) - )Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates)
Blue spotted salamander eggs (Ambystoma laterale) eggs found in a well-forested Orrington (Penobscot County) pool - (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates)
Two little peepers (Pseudacris crucifer) (at least 2!) hiding out in an old survey pipe, found in October in Cumberland, Maine (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates).
Lee found this gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor) a couple of years ago (Lee Burman, SW Cole).
Spotted salamander (Abystoma maculatum) egg mass (Lee Burman, SW Cole).
Click on the red salamander (Psuedotriton ruber) photo to the right. This little guy was living under silt fence next to spring-fed brook on a newly constructed pipeline right-of-way in northern New Jersey. Photo by Richard Jordan of Boyle Associates.
This photo of an eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) was taken by Oscar Emerson, Down to Earth Professional Land Services; Specimen discovered by Cody Emerson, adjacent to Great Works Stream in Bradley, Maine.
Four male and one female wood frog in mating congress in 2006 (Tim Forrester of EcoAnalysts).
Water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) photo taken by Dick Boothby on the Taum Sauk Creek, in Lesterville, MO.
Black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta), photo taken by Dick Boothby on the Taum Sauk Creek, in Lesterville, MO.

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