Today I visited three vernal pool sites in Stockbridge and Lenox, I found Jefferson salamander eggs in all three pools! The first pool was on public land directly behind someone's home so I got in the shallow pool in Stockbridge for 5 minutes and managed to sneak out unseen while the homeowner was in the driveway cutting wood with a chainsaw a few hundred feet away.
The second pool was easy to find. It was 1/4 mile up a hiking trail. The third was in a park that had lots of hiking trails nearby that was a few miles from Tanglewood music center.
Last year my friend Chris told me he had a friend named George who lives in western mass that I should meet sometime, survey some property he owns, and talk about nature. ... a year later ... After I finished my surveys for the day I called George and then met him at his office, turns out he runs his own video production company:
http://www.lovethewoods.com/. George offered to let me stay at his place and sleep on his couch to save on hotels. It turns out he lives in a beautiful rustic house 10 feet from a cascading river. The house is heated by a wood stove and is quite charming.
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| This is a Google Earth 3D image of some of the terrain. This was one of the shorter hikes with a path going right to the pond. |
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| Old building built on top of the pond |
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| Jefferson salamander eggs |
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| Jefferson salamander eggs |
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| My home for the week thanks to George and Iin Cox. |
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