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<br&g Quoting V Redden <reddenville@nncweb.ca>: > I have found salamanders crawling across the ice in my yard almost > every winter. I take them to the nearest log and dig under the snow > , set them down and away they go. No idea if they survive but they > crawl into the hole on their own. I have a very woody yard so a > fallen log is usually close by. * this is probably okay if there's enough snow that the soil won't freeze, or, and here's the chance, won't freeze before the Salamander finds a refuge below frost. I'd add to my previous advice that a fridge where an Amphibian is kept over the winter should be around 2-3C to minimize the metabolic reserves burned up over the winter. fred. ======================================================= > Fred Schueler wrote: >> On 12/24/2013 11:07 AM, Bob Haimes wrote: >>> I need advice from an amphibian expert. I went out to my car this >>> morning and much >>> to my surprise there was a salamander (Black with yellow spots) walking >>> across my >>> iced over driveway. Am looking for advice on what is best to get him >>> through the >>> winter. Either where to release or someone who can house it until >>> spring. Willing >>> to set up something in my home if I knew what to do. >>> Willing to give phone number to anyone who can help. >> >> * I think the best thing to do would be to put it in a gallon jar >> with some forest leaf litter and leafmould, and keep it in the >> fridge, allowing some air cirulation through screening or holes in >> the lid, but being very careful that it stays moist - with a mm of >> liquid water at the bottom of the jar. Then release it in the >> spring, as soon as the snow is gone, under a log in the woods >> nearest to where you found it. It's a Yellow-spotted Salamander, >> Ambystoma maculatum. >> >> fred. >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad >> Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm >> Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ >> RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 >> on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W >> (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ >> The 2014 Bishops Mills Calendar Festival: >> Fred: >> http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-fred-calendar-for-2014.html - data >> input >> Aleta: http://www.lulu.com/content/14204755 - paintings >> Jennifer: >> http://www.zazzle.com/free_range_wall_calendar-158319768903951661 >> - free ranging livestock >> Rory: [watch this space for the revolutionary calendar] >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3658/6947 - Release Date: 12/24/13 >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ South Nation Basin Art & Science Book http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------
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