[Salamander]

Wow!

I have never had the privilege of seeing them *that* young.

The apple-sized girl was the smallest I’ve ever seen.

They are so freaking cute I can’t stand it.

:D

Box turtles here are hatching out somewhere in the depths of the woods where we don’t see them that small.

The water turtle babies, though, are all over the banks of streams and creeks in the summer.

One of the craziest things I ever saw was back when i was a kid.

The whole fam damily would take jon boats down Licking Creek to picnic on the small islands.

One year, there were hundreds of thousands of newly land-worthy baby frogs and toads.

The ground was *alive* with them, there were so many.

Best picnic, ever.

[gundog]

Yeah.. walking through the oak forests in the Ozarks the adult box turtles were easy to spot. Never saw a tiny one. I think Underground Reptiles sells them. Thinking about getting some sliders and mud turtles.

I’m in a reptile-poor area. A few Western Pond Turtles and a red-eared slider that someone turned loose in the park decades ago.

I remember a crazy rainstorm we had inArka was ghat had baby toads everywhere.