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Notophthalmus viridescens
About 3" long, this orange spotted newt is traveling about this peice of wood, either to avoid me at some points, or to walk towards the reflection of my lens. A very stricking critter, not used to being out and about in the sun! This was discovered in my backyard in NB, near my shed.
Under moist peices of rocks, wood, or moss. Sometimes caught walking out at night.
Not sure if you notice, but in the first photo there is a spider sitting there blurred in background basking as I take photos. haha.
Spotted on Aug 21, 2010
Submitted on Dec 21, 2011
4 Comments
Thanks so much everyone for the compliments! I just changed the first photo, as I just found a photo from the same spotting in one of my folders, it seems a wolf spider(lycosa sp.) decided to stop by and take a bask while I was shooting. Very cute!
Nice,
beautiful
Cool!