#VernalPools

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@grayherndon.bsky.social

2 days ago

A purplish-gray salamander with bright yellow spots crawls toward the camera across a pair of pale hands. The fingers are slightly pink with cold and under the hands leaf litter is visible in a shallow pool. The scene is lit artificially and there are deep shadows.

A purplish-gray salamander with bright yellow spots crawls toward the camera across a pair of pale hands. The fingers are slightly pink with cold and under the hands leaf litter is visible in a shallow pool. The scene is lit artificially and there are deep shadows.

A purplish-gray salamander with bright yellow spots crawls toward the camera across a pair of pale hands. The fingers are slightly pink with cold and under the hands leaf litter is visible in a shallow pool. The scene is lit artificially and there are deep shadows.

A purplish-gray salamander with bright yellow spots perches almost in profile on a pale hand. The fingers are slightly pink with cold and under the hand leaf litter is visible in a shallow pool. The scene is lit artificially and there are deep shadows.

Salamander walk with the Headwaters Master Naturalists!

YOU GUYS look at hims little FOOTS I cannot BEAR IT.

#salamanders #herpetology #wildlife #virginia #vernalpools

Hilltown Families

@hilltownfamilies.bsky.social

2 days ago

Amphibians of Massachusetts: Spring Breeding in Vernal Pools - Hilltown Families Learn about salamanders and frogs in Easthampton at Arcadia, where teens and adults can discover local species and their conservation status. The program includes indoor learning and an outdoor explor...

Learn about salamanders and frogs in Easthampton at Arcadia this Saturday, where teens & adults can discover local species and their conservation status. The program includes indoor learning and an outdoor exploration of vernal pools & salamander habitats. #westernmass @massaudubon.org #vernalpools

Hilltown Families

@hilltownfamilies.bsky.social

4 days ago

Amphibians of Massachusetts: Spring Breeding in Vernal Pools - Hilltown Families Learn about salamanders and frogs in Easthampton at Arcadia, where teens and adults can discover local species and their conservation status. The program includes indoor learning and an outdoor explor...

Learn about salamanders and frogs in Easthampton at Arcadia, where teens and adults can discover local species and their conservation status. The program includes indoor learning and an outdoor exploration of vernal pools and salamander habitats. #vernalpools @massaudubon.org

The One True Kat

@theonetruekat.bsky.social

6 days ago

I’m going to go stand in a puddle and commune with the tinies today. Here is the puddle when it was at max capacity a few weeks ago. #vernalpools #YoloCo

Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lynn

@uucgl.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Salamander with yellow spots

Live Animal Exhibit! Movie! Vernal Pool Exploration!
Join us for a free, family‑friendly adventure into the world of vernal ponds — the temporary wetlands that burst with life each spring.
April 13 | 6:30pm | Swampscott, MA
Free registration: tinyurl.com/3bn9csds

#VernalPonds #VernalPools #Nature

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@grayherndon.bsky.social

1 month ago

Vernal Pools Book — Steven David Johnson - Conservation Photography

“Just 25 years ago, the ‘vernal pool’ habitat concept was hardly even found in the lexicon of natural resource professionals in the mid-Atlantic region, much less known by the general public.

“We can’t save what we don’t understand and value . . . .”

#vernalpools #amphibians #invertebrates

Patrick Lynch

@patrlynch1.bsky.social

2 months ago

Page spread diagram showing the many woodland creatures that depend on the fish-free and seasonal aquatic environments of woodland vernal pools.

Vernal pools spread. From my book "A Field Guide to the Connecticut River," Yale Univ. Press, 2024. a.co/d/hIabRmS
🐡🧪🌿🌎 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #vernalpools

Claire (at EwA)

@aki-at-ewa.bsky.social

2 months ago

𓆈 Closing 2025 with Impact – EwA’s Vernal Pool and Threatened Species Report is out! tinyurl.com/EwA-2025-VPV...

Enjoy!

#VernalPools #conservation #biodiversity #ClimateAction #ewareport #endangeredspecies #participatoryscience

Delaware Riverkeeper Network

@delriverkeeper.bsky.social

3 months ago

Delaware’s wetlands at risk as Trump administration seeks to remove protections Delaware is the only state in the mid-Atlantic that does not have a nontidal wetland protection program that exceeds federal baseline standards.

Critical freshwater and saltwater habitats that are not 'navigable' or have a 'continuous surface connection' are at risk of losing protections under new federal proposal to limit the Clean Water Act.

whyy.org/articles/del...

#Wetlands #CleanWaterAct #WOTUS #Sackett #CWA #VernalPools #Swamps

Amy McP

@aemcp.bsky.social

8 months ago

Check out this cool paper in #AJB! #VernalPools #OpenAccess #SocietyJournal

WasBella102

@wasbellab102.bsky.social

10 months ago

#Sandhill #Cranes by Alice Cahill
The #MercedNational #Wildlife Refuge encompasses 10,262 acres of #Wetlands, #Native #Grasslands, #VernalPools, and #Riparian areas in #California #USA
#Photography
#Birds
#Sunset
#Nature

Miranda Randi Scher

@randireigns.bsky.social

10 months ago

#vernalpools #wildlifegardener #greenfrog #backyardhabitat #bringnaturehome

Kari Percival

@karipercival.bsky.social

10 months ago

Spring is springing: the frogs & #salamanders and filling up the #vernalpools with jelly eggs, the tender plants are coming up in spite of bad news. A surging reminder that #climateaction and #environmentalpolicywork, local, national, and global, is never more imperative than now, & going forward.

Gail 🐸🐟🐛

@breezygail.bsky.social

11 months ago

Spring Pool by Robert Frost: These pools that, though in forests, still reflect The total sky almost without defect, And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver, Will like the flowers beside them, soon be gone, And yet not out by any brook or river, But up by roots to bring dark foliage on. The trees that have it in their pent up buds To darken nature and be summer woods - Let them think twice before they use their powers To blot out and drink up and sweep away These flowery waters and these watery flowers From snow that melted only yesterday.

🌱🌱🪻🪻
#vernalpools #spring

Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍

@vernal3.bsky.social

11 months ago

Hot off press. Resolution not great . . .but timing was right. Largest concentration of fairy shrimp ( #Eubranchipus) I’ve ever seen. These are likely E. vernalis, the only one of 2 Massachusetts species not listed. Many males; no brood pouches. Early season? March 26, 2025.
#vernalpools #Bugsky 🐞🪰

Patrick Lynch

@patrlynch1.bsky.social

11 months ago

Vernal Pools spread. From my book "A Field Guide to the Connecticut River," Yale Univ. Press, 2024. a.co/d/hIabRmS #sciart 🧪 🌿 🌎 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #vernalpools

Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍

@vernal3.bsky.social

11 months ago

Some of my favoritist critters - fairy shrimp, Eubranchipus vernalis, one of 2 species found in Massachusetts. Live as adults for a brief ~2 weeks in Spring vernal pools. Much more info. in video Alt.

#fairyshrimp #Eubranchipus
#vernalpools #Massachusetts #iNaturalist
#crustaceans #invertebrates

🧿✨MJ, TundraTaoist✨🧿 aka 🏹 Damsel of DPS 🏹 🌷She/Her🌷 ❄️Alaska❄️ ❌👑

@tundrataoist.bsky.social

11 months ago

Wood Frog in situ Vernal Pool. Photo by MJ Walker (me). All Rights Reserved 2013

Wood Frog in situ Vernal Pool. Photo by MJ Walker (me). All Rights Reserved 2013

Wood Frog in situ Vernal Pool. Photo by MJ Walker (me). All Rights Reserved 2013

Wood Frog in situ Vernal Pool. Photo by MJ Walker (me). All Rights Reserved 2013

#WoodFrogs unique freezing adaptations allow them to overwinter in surface leaf litter & dirt rather than having to seek out deeper water or underground burrows for protection. This makes them vulnerable as they rely on #VernalPools #VernalPonds much earlier & more than other species.

#WorldFrogDay

Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍

@vernal3.bsky.social

11 months ago

My handle refers to vernal pools which are about to start their Spring creative fling within the month 🦎🐸. Yay! (I’m also on #iNaturalist with an array of critters; same vernal3 handle.)

Please drive slowly, especially wet nights above 40* F or 4.5* C.

#vernalpools #amphibians #Springmigration

Patrick Lynch

@patrlynch1.bsky.social

11 months ago

Vernal pool season is on in Connecticut! First Peepers and Wood Frogs :-) From my book "A Field Guide to the Connecticut River," Yale Univ. Press, 2024. a.co/d/hIabRmS #sciart 🧪 🌿 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #sciviz #scicomm #vernalpools

Cal Geographic

@calgeographic.bsky.social

1 year ago

Geomorphology of California’s Seasonal Freshwater Wetlands Emergent vegetation delineating a sag pond along the San Andreas Fault, R. Forest Geomorphology of California’s Seasonal Freshwater Wetlands For the purpose of this research, and to get a better un…

The Geomorphology of California’s Seasonal Freshwater Wetlands
calgeographic.com/2023/04/28/l...
#Wetlands #geomorphology #geography #geology #California #ecology #vernalpools #conservation

Cal Geographic

@calgeographic.bsky.social

1 year ago

Biogeography of California’s Seasonal Freshwater Wetlands Valley Hardpan Vernal Pool – Santa Rosa Plain, R.Forest Biogeography of California’s Seasonal Freshwater Wetlands For the purpose of this research, and to get a better understanding of this o…

The Biogeography of California’s Seasonal Freshwater Wetlands
calgeographic.com/2023/04/28/b...
#Wetlands #biogeography #geography #botany #soils #nativeplants #vernalpools #conservation #ecosystems #californianativeplants #nature #ecology

@letwildlifethrive.bsky.social

1 year ago

On a warm night with & temp. above 40F our amphibian friends wake up from their winter slumber and migrate downstream to vernal pools.
Here's a Wood Frog I photographed. Mar. 5 Stow, MA

#amphibians #frogs #naturephotography #nature #wildlife #vernalpools #springtime #willdlifephotography #wetlands

Hisstogramma

@hisstogramma.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy

1 year ago

Write yellow flowers with green foliage

Yellow carpet - Blennosperma nanum in the vernal pools in Solano County today at Jepson Prairie Preserve. One of the first flowers to start blooming in our area. I signed up to be a docent this year and I’m taking their courses and they are fantastic. #wildflowers #vernalpools

Joseph Hatch

@joewillhatch.bsky.social

1 year ago

Coming to bookshelves in March just in time for “Big Night”

Salamander Song
book samples just arrived 😻

#salamanders #kidlit #childrensbooks #bignight #vernalpools
#naturalwonders #amphibiansofbluesky

Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍

@vernal3.bsky.social

1 year ago

Spotted salamander with spermatophores. Early Spring vernal pool.

Male Spotted Salamander (Amblystoma maculatum) migrated to a vernal pool early Spring from a terrestrial burrowing site. It laid spermatophores on the pool bottom (in photo), sperm clumps, to be “picked up” by females 4 fertilization.

🐍 #Spottedsalamander
#salamander #mating #vernalpools #nature

Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍

@vernal3.bsky.social

1 year ago

Wood frogs in amplexus. Male fertilizes as female lays the egg mass.

A lucky photo moment. Wood frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) in amplexus (mating). Female laying eggs as smaller male fertilizes them. Slightly older egg mass to the right. Vernal pool obligates

🐍 #woodfrogs #amplexus #mating #egglaying #herps #vernalpools #photography #naturephotography #nature

Dr. Diaz Eaton up to Good Trouble

@mathprofcarrie.bsky.social

12 years ago

Presentation to 1st grade class on spotted salamanders and vernal pools:
http://goo.gl/PxUigB #stemed #vernalpools #sustainabilityscience