+BeachBuddies Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 I always enjoy the threads with pictures of snakes and such... here's another one. We found this guy (and lots more like him) at a puzzle cache today. He'd make a good tie-clip, but I left him with his friends I didn't realize these guys were active this late in the season. Quote
+briansnat Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 Found this guy next to a cache a few weeks ago: Quote
+rjo Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 Found this guy next to a cache a few weeks ago: good lord he is ugly as sin Quote
+RichardMoore Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 (edited) I always enjoy the threads with pictures of snakes and such... here's another one. We found this guy (and lots more like him) at a puzzle cache today. He'd make a good tie-clip, but I left him with his friends I didn't realize these guys were active this late in the season. <picture> That looks like a "red eft", the pre-adult stage of the red-spotted newt. Edited November 21, 2004 by RichardMoore Quote
+RichardMoore Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 Found this guy next to a cache a few weeks ago: <picture> That is a spotted salamander. Quote
+BeachBuddies Posted November 21, 2004 Author Posted November 21, 2004 Found this guy next to a cache a few weeks ago Wow, your camera's a lot better than mine.. what kind do you have? Is it a digital? Quote
+CompuCash Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 Found this guy next to a cache a few weeks ago Wow, your camera's a lot better than mine.. what kind do you have? Is it a digital? yer out of focus Beach - probably tried to get too close - on digitals this can be hard to determine if you don't have a real viewfinder (or at least it is for me). a little more light would have helped also. some of the graininess (look at the newt) is likely due to lack of light. do you have a flash? most digitals are really hard to focus in low light situations also. You can't focus what you can't see. And the camera can't either (auto focus). good photos do not always have to do with expansive high end cameras. My first camera was a 640x480 camera that wrote the image on a floppy (Sony Mavica). I took thousands of great photos with that camera. good photos usually can be had with getting used to using the camera and practice. learning the little tricks and troubles with a camera goes a long way to good photos. All cameras are different, work different, and have their own little querks. Quote
+Robespierre Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 (edited) The brown spotted guy looks very much like the brown spotted salamander which we kept for a season when my children were small. He ate mostly earthworms and did well in the aquarium with pebbles, a grassy area, and a small pond. The OP, is not familiar to me, but I believe that many newts have some sort of "fringe ears" on the sides of their head, and that one doesn't appear to have that. Googled "newt" and found that newt and salamander are often used interchangably, as soft-bodied amphibians. Edited November 21, 2004 by Robespierre Quote
+briansnat Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 Found this guy next to a cache a few weeks ago Wow, your camera's a lot better than mine.. what kind do you have? Is it a digital? Canon A70 digital. Had it in macro mode, Quote
+BeachBuddies Posted November 21, 2004 Author Posted November 21, 2004 Nice picture. My camera is a pretty cheap digital. I can't control the focus at all, other than to switch between close-up and everything-else mode. But, it was cloudy that day, the flash didn't go off for some reason (I don't seem to have control over that either), and it's tough to take a picture of your own chest hehe (that's my excuse anyway) Quote
+fly46 Posted November 21, 2004 Posted November 21, 2004 Found this guy next to a cache a few weeks ago: good lord he is ugly as sin There are words for what he looks like, but I'll save repulsing everyone on the forums with great nasty detail for when I have a really good excuse. Quote
+Quintheeskimo66 Posted November 22, 2004 Posted November 22, 2004 Here is a picture of a little orange friend I ran across while caching. He/She actually helped me find the cache. His/her bright orange color caught my eye, and then my eyes were drawn up slightly to find the hiding place of the cache. He/she was very calm, and allowed me to take several pictures. Quote
+Sputnik 57 Posted November 22, 2004 Posted November 22, 2004 "She turned me into a newt!" "You don't look like a newt" "I got bettah" Quote
+evergreenhiker! Posted November 22, 2004 Posted November 22, 2004 Saw this Giant Pacific Salamander after planting my Dream Cache. this was the Otter falls cache. Quote
+evergreenhiker! Posted November 22, 2004 Posted November 22, 2004 Here is a picture of a little orange friend I ran across while caching. He/She actually helped me find the cache. His/her bright orange color caught my eye, and then my eyes were drawn up slightly to find the hiding place of the cache. He/she was very calm, and allowed me to take several pictures. I'm guessing this guy is a newt...rough skinned newt subspecies. These guys will live in the water most of the time, but will migrate out to mate. Note the bright coloration...it' svery poisonous! If you touch one of these guys you need to wash your hands before eating anything. The chemical is extremely toxic and only a small amount is needed to kill. Great shot by the way...very pretty amphibian! Quote
+RichardMoore Posted November 22, 2004 Posted November 22, 2004 Here is a picture of a little orange friend I ran across while caching. He/She actually helped me find the cache. His/her bright orange color caught my eye, and then my eyes were drawn up slightly to find the hiding place of the cache. He/she was very calm, and allowed me to take several pictures. <picture> That looks like a "red eft", the pre-adult stage of the red-spotted newt. The same thing as the OP, but a better picture. Quote
+BeachBuddies Posted November 22, 2004 Author Posted November 22, 2004 Yep, that's the same as the ones I saw and tried (poorly) to photograph. Quote
+greyhounder Posted November 22, 2004 Posted November 22, 2004 "She turned me into a newt!" "You don't look like a newt" "I got bettah" I was going to say the same thing! Bec Quote
+haggaeus Posted November 23, 2004 Posted November 23, 2004 A salamander found near this cache: Quote
+WildGooseChase Posted November 23, 2004 Posted November 23, 2004 We saw this guy down in Belize, don't remember what they called him. Something like snake lizard or some such. We got our first international cache find while there! Quote
+Colorado Cacher Posted November 30, 2004 Posted November 30, 2004 After seeing a small green snake in the middle of the road in November while caching last year I will believe naything now. And there was snow on the ground here in Colorado. Honestly. Quote
+Criminal Posted November 30, 2004 Posted November 30, 2004 (edited) I stepped on this guy, he's no worse for the wear... I just noticed, he has hands like the Simpsons. Edited November 30, 2004 by Criminal Quote
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