| Fairy shrimp (Eubranchipus sp.) located in an
old quarry pool in Aroostook County (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates).
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| Northern leopard frog egg mass from an
Aroostook County farm pond (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates).
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| American
toads (Bufo americanus) in amplexus - found in a shallow pool in
a former sandpit (Laura Lapierre, Normandeau Associates).
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| Caddisfly
predation on a wood frog egg mass taken on a project in Brewer (Chet
Bigelow, James W. Sewall Company).
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| 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).
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| D-netting
for critters during a mitigation site inspection at a created vernal
pool in Yarmouth, Maine (Ruth Ladd, ACOE).
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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).
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| Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis
sauritus) observed feasting then fleeing a vernal pool in Windham,
Maine (Stephenie Swiezynski, TRC Environmental).
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| Wood Turtle (Clemmys
insculpta) - a Maine-listed Species of
Special Concern - found lumbering across a logging road in western Maine
- (Richard Jordan,
Boyle Associates.)
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| Big
'ol northern water
snake (Nerodia s. sipedon) observed in Raymond Pond in Raymond,
Maine (Richard Jordan, Boyle Associates).
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| Northern Leopard Frog (Rana pipiens)
- Maine-listed Species of Special Concern (due to apparent decline of
southern Maine population) -
)Richard Jordan,
Boyle Associates)
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| Blue spotted salamander eggs (Ambystoma
laterale) eggs found
in a well-forested Orrington (Penobscot County) pool - (Richard Jordan,
Boyle Associates)
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| 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).
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| Lee found this gray treefrog (Hyla
versicolor) a couple of years ago (Lee Burman, SW Cole).
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| Spotted salamander (Abystoma
maculatum) egg mass - Lee Burman.
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| 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. |

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| 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. |
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| Four
male and one female wood frog in mating congress in 2006 (Tim Forrester of
EcoAnalysts). |
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| Water
moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorus) photo taken by Dick
Boothby on the Taum Sauk Creek, in Lesterville, MO. |
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| Black
rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta), photo taken by Dick Boothby
on the Taum Sauk Creek, in Lesterville, MO. |
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