This is better than any documentary I have seen. No dramatization and trying to paint animals like people... Just incredible, extensive footage, and purely factual narrating. This is a masterpiece.
As an adult, I will never understand my fondness for catching creatures when I was a boy but boy did I like to. Tended to be amphibians and snakes. Caught so many and was always kind to them and they were always kind to me. Well, the snapping turtles liked to snap but I learned to leave them alone.
beautiful, educational, great up close photography--the faces of salamanders are adorable. I hope it helps people want to save wetlands, forests, and make more salamander bridges so they can cross roads. I try not to drive on rainy nights around here--don't want to flatten any.
As a child growing up with Florida, there were a few years where I was obsessed with salamanders. Almost 2 decades later, i still have not seen one in person. I am blessed to be able to take a trip to New England in a couple weeks, and I’m hoping I finally get to see some salamanders 😊 Thanks for the excellent documentary!
The best way to find salamanders in New England is to pick up a wet rotted log and look underneath. It's a good chance you'll find a redbacked. Salamander newts are pretty common right after a rainstorm
Up in Jackman Maine during a summer recently. (2018) I was just walking behind my in laws camp. Noticed some down trees and chopped up logs. So I just started turning them over. Blue Spotted Salamanders! Everywhere!! First time I've seen any in the wild. Absolutely stunning amphibians!
I have found several species of salamanders in my two acre yard, which is primarily lawn. There are red efts wandering the dense four inch lawn. Purple spotted denizens lurking in my home's foundation drain, and just the other day I managed to disturb a red backed, living in gravel under the northern eaves of our garage. I was digging and severed its tail, which was very distracting writhing away on its own, while its former owner burrowed quickly into the stones. This is a great production! Thanks!
I spend a lot of time in Connecticut forest and have seen many of these salamanders. But there are a few in this video that I have never seen before. Thank you Ray you really have outdone yourself this time. the upclose shots Staring directly into the faces of these little creatures is heart warming. I really especially appreciate the focus on The wildlife and trees of New England's forest. It's sad that so many people feel that these places are lost but they are still here for them to all enjoy.
As a child I caught 2 yellow spotted salamanders in an event dedicated to doing just that. They were such a cool pet, when my father moved he donated them to a local museum. I hope these creatures can retain their niche as the environmental shifts continue.
I found a yellow spotted salamander in a mulch pile I was doing yard work with when I was around 9. He lived for over 5 years as a great pet with me. I'd catch him crickets another invertebrates to feed him, and in the winter would get crickets from Petco. He was a really great pet, very friendly and enjoyed being handled. Mulchy, miss ya little buddy
When I was a child (mid 80's) my parents would take my little brother and I on nature trails in South Carolina, and green lizards were pretty abundant, and relatively simple to catch, but there tails would rip off with there attempts to free themselves, and with that came a little guilt. Only ONCE, here in NC, have I seen a yellow lizard, but there were no spot's, only stripes.
Great documentary, I just finished watching it together with my friends. We really enjoyed learning about all the different types of salamanders and their life cycles! Thanks and hope you make more videos
A beautifully crafted, informative film about fascinating little creatures that most people overlook. It reminded me of my childhood pursuit of looking for them in and around creeks. Than you!
Unbelievable photography Ray. You’ve captured images of events and species I’ve spent a lifetime looking for, usually unsuccessfully. Not to dismiss any part of this video, your four toed salamander segment was historic.
Salamander crossing in Amherst, they used to have to cross the road and a lot of them were getting run over, but someone ended up putting in a culvert and guides on both sides that corral the sallys to the tunnel. Its a yearly migration, or something like that .
Great respect for the patience, skill, and persistence that it must have taken to capture this amazing video, especially the underground and underwater shots. Beautiful! And the natural audio behind it, too.
Absolutely amazing footage and information. This is how a wildlife documentary should look like. Greetings from Germany (where we don't have nearly as much diversity in newts and salamanders).
And how could I be so negligent (see my other comment). Kudos to Al, the consummate herpetologist. Guide, expert, and colorful commenter. You guys are a naturalist’s dream team.
Another banger of a video! The newts and salamander are some of my favourite forest and stream critters. Some of the footage here I have never seen anywhere else! Also amazing that we can have the origin of our mud puppy population back to one professor! Thanks for making this! Always happy to see new uploads.
@marzupalami you should research the history of florida. the _entire state_ is a land reclamation project. the largest ever undertaken, actually. the u.s. army corps of engineers spent alot of time down here. this awful state exists solely because a bunch of rich people wanted to build their own knock-off island paradise in the middle of a swamp. thats really it. the cows kickstarted the economy, nobody wanted anything to do with this place for a long time, till the real estate could finally be developed using _more modern technology_ . prior to floridas transformation, one of the few factors preventing it from happening sooner was literally the technology and tools required would have made the task almost impossible. florida really is just a beautiful place continuously marked by destruction and violence, for ever, end of.
@@Rexini_Kobalt, At this point, the entire reason for the state of Florida existing is as an economic vehicle for rich land developers to become even richer by draining and developing swampland, building homes in places that are likely to flood and be subject to severe storm damage, and which should never be built upon. The destruction of wildlife habitat and of the wild spaces that slow and filter the water, and prevent or moderate storm surges and floods, is only half of the equation. The other half is the massive amount of taxpayer money that it will require to help residents after a storm and to repair, replace, or reimburse for, dwellings that have been flooded or destroyed, and the insurance companies can't cover all the losses, and subsequently decide not to write policies in Florida anymore. It's already happening in FL, and in CA as well (due to expensive losses from wildfires). Right now the Florida real estate market is being played a little like a game of musical chairs, with everybody dancing to the drumbeat of all that money being made, except that when the music stops, the rich developers will be the first to be found sitting pretty in a chair on the highest physical and financial ground, or perhaps having moved outside of the state altogether.
Absolutely outstanding documentary. Salamanders are beautiful and fascinating. Red efts are “the perfect animal.” Absolutely…. Perfect. I miss New Hampshire. Thank you for this excellent documentary without all the extra “fluff.”
This is really cool, im glad you guys are covering local wildlife. I hope you do a feature video on garter snakes in the future. Everyone knows they exist, but very few people realize theyre some of the most interesting snakes in the world. I only found out theyre the most social snakes in the world a few years ago, and i think theyd be more appreciated if that was common knowledge.
Thank you so much for this. I found it fascinating. Growing up in Connecticut I saw many spotted salamanders. I saw Red Newt in New Hampshire when I was just a child, I thought they were the coolest thing. But they are the canary in the mine, and they are dying...
Thank you heaps for all the amazing content you upload. I have watched all your content many times over. Informative, funny, amazing videography. A real pleasure.
This is awesome. You should do one on salamanders of the MidAtlantic states. When i was a kid - in the 1960s and 70s, there were LOTS of vernal pools in the forests of northern New Jersey. Always magical places where life appeared in spring, disappeared in summer, then came back in the fall. Unfortunately, construction here has destroyed many of them. The insect life of these pools is also interesting. Would like to find a good book on them.
That was pretty interesting! In Middle Europe (at least in Germany) we have just six species of salamanders - non is fully aquatic and none fully terrestrial.
As many issues as I have with New England (primarily how crowded and expensive it is, especially near the coast), I absolutely love having grown up here
Thanks Liam. It’s taken a few years to get a lot of this technology through my dense skull, and every day it gets tougher to keep it in there. But hopefully at least the message comes through clearly.
I’m going back to Massachusetts in a week from now, I would love to take some time to try and look for some of these species, love the New England is amphibian land!!
A wonderful documentary. Really nice! A side note and half jest; who knew those spotted newts sound exactly like people when licking and munching on their prey? ;)
Being a young kid back in the late 60's early 70's we used to catch Eastern Red Spotted salamanders by the 100's. After a good rain at my families summer cottage deep in the woods of N.H., salamanders were everywhere. Used to bring a bunch back home and I'd sell them to neighborhood kids for 25 cents each. Not bad for a 7-10 yr old kid.
Thank you Ray. The other day while walking down my road in rural North Carolina just north of Raleigh I found a red ef in the roadway and enticed it to get onto my sunhat so that I could move it to a safer place. . I hate seeing so many creatures run over on our roads.
we have red-backed salamanders here in NH but we called them "two stripes" because the red back has a black pencil thin line down the middle. must be a local variation.
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This is better than any documentary I have seen. No dramatization and trying to paint animals like people... Just incredible, extensive footage, and purely factual narrating. This is a masterpiece.
Yes I gotta agree. I never like it when they name animals With cute names or some kind of narrative.
its always been disappointing that no one ever makes nature documentaries for the Northeast, so this channel is really awesome.
Premium videography. Beautiful presentation and thank you for your time. ( Earth is one big egg )
Salamander hunting in the Connecticut summer was part of my childhood in the 1960s.
Outstanding production!
The way you get these shots baffles me! Absolutely beautiful production
This is like PBS in the 90's, holy shib I love it.
So beautiful the dancing embryos in an oort cloud of green algae. 14:41
I wish I could give this a thousand thumbs up! An extraordinary production! Thank you!
Well, let’s see… if you give it one thumbs-up a day, um….
The sound of the Red Eft chewing those aphids was absolutely adorable!
As an adult, I will never understand my fondness for catching creatures when I was a boy but boy did I like to. Tended to be amphibians and snakes. Caught so many and was always kind to them and they were always kind to me. Well, the snapping turtles liked to snap but I learned to leave them alone.
That was a great documentary. I'm glad I gave it a chance.
beautiful, educational, great up close photography--the faces of salamanders are adorable.
I hope it helps people want to save wetlands, forests, and make more salamander bridges so they can cross roads. I try not to drive on rainy nights around here--don't want to flatten any.
As a child growing up with Florida, there were a few years where I was obsessed with salamanders. Almost 2 decades later, i still have not seen one in person. I am blessed to be able to take a trip to New England in a couple weeks, and I’m hoping I finally get to see some salamanders 😊
Thanks for the excellent documentary!
The best way to find salamanders in New England is to pick up a wet rotted log and look underneath. It's a good chance you'll find a redbacked. Salamander newts are pretty common right after a rainstorm
Wonderful! Beautifully done.
Up in Jackman Maine during a summer recently. (2018) I was just walking behind my in laws camp. Noticed some down trees and chopped up logs. So I just started turning them over. Blue Spotted Salamanders! Everywhere!! First time I've seen any in the wild. Absolutely stunning amphibians!
This is a true smoke piece of a documentary. No dumbing -down, Great job
I have found several species of salamanders in my two acre yard, which is primarily lawn. There are red efts wandering the dense four inch lawn. Purple spotted denizens lurking in my home's foundation drain, and just the other day I managed to disturb a red backed, living in gravel under the northern eaves of our garage. I was digging and severed its tail, which was very distracting writhing away on its own, while its former owner burrowed quickly into the stones. This is a great production! Thanks!
I spend a lot of time in Connecticut forest and have seen many of these salamanders. But there are a few in this video that I have never seen before. Thank you Ray you really have outdone yourself this time. the upclose shots Staring directly into the faces of these little creatures is heart warming. I really especially appreciate the focus on The wildlife and trees of New England's forest. It's sad that so many people feel that these places are lost but they are still here for them to all enjoy.
This is so cool as a new Englander I am learning so much 🤗thank you great content!!!!!!
As a child I caught 2 yellow spotted salamanders in an event dedicated to doing just that. They were such a cool pet, when my father moved he donated them to a local museum. I hope these creatures can retain their niche as the environmental shifts continue.
I found a yellow spotted salamander in a mulch pile I was doing yard work with when I was around 9. He lived for over 5 years as a great pet with me. I'd catch him crickets another invertebrates to feed him, and in the winter would get crickets from Petco. He was a really great pet, very friendly and enjoyed being handled. Mulchy, miss ya little buddy
When I was a child (mid 80's) my parents would take my little brother and I on nature trails in South Carolina, and green lizards were pretty abundant, and relatively simple to catch, but there tails would rip off with there attempts to free themselves, and with that came a little guilt. Only ONCE, here in NC, have I seen a yellow lizard, but there were no spot's, only stripes.
I was just watching videos of Tiger Salamanders, great timing!
Great documentary, I just finished watching it together with my friends. We really enjoyed learning about all the different types of salamanders and their life cycles! Thanks and hope you make more videos
This is very high production quality. I would expect this on a Sunday afternoon on gbh. Thanks!
I hope you have more videos in the works. This channel is a true gem.
Thanks, and yes, another is being worked on now.
Another wonderful video! This channel is quickly becoming cherished among me and my friends
A beautifully crafted, informative film about fascinating little creatures that most people overlook. It reminded me of my childhood pursuit of looking for them in and around creeks. Than you!
Unbelievable photography Ray. You’ve captured images of events and species I’ve spent a lifetime looking for, usually unsuccessfully. Not to dismiss any part of this video, your four toed salamander segment was historic.
Salamander crossing in Amherst, they used to have to cross the road and a lot of them were getting run over, but someone ended up putting in a culvert and guides on both sides that corral the sallys to the tunnel. Its a yearly migration, or something like that .
I love your TH-cam channel so much! Thank you-it is food for the soul.
Thank you, a sentiment like that keeps me smiling.
Great respect for the patience, skill, and persistence that it must have taken to capture this amazing video, especially the underground and underwater shots.
Beautiful!
And the natural audio behind it, too.
10/10 - informative, beautiful video, you guys nailed it once again; the beauty and the reality of the forests. thanks for your work.
Thanks very much!
Fascinating !! Terrific footage / editing / narration !
Who needs David Attenborough ??!
I'm so happy I decided to watch this, I have so many cool salamander facts now! Thank you for your hard work on this, the quality is amazing!
Really enjoyed this video and just subscribed. Keep up the great work!
Absolutely amazing footage and information. This is how a wildlife documentary should look like. Greetings from Germany (where we don't have nearly as much diversity in newts and salamanders).
And how could I be so negligent (see my other comment). Kudos to Al, the consummate herpetologist. Guide, expert, and colorful commenter. You guys are a naturalist’s dream team.
Thanks Robbie… Wouldn’t have happened without Al’s help, guidance, and knowledge. 👍
You caught the cutest shots of their faces and feet. Endearing.
Wonderful show! Thank you!
this was really so great. thank you so much!
Another superb documentary. I’ve learned so much, and received hours of enjoyment, from your videos. Thank you.
Wonderful documentary
Another banger of a video! The newts and salamander are some of my favourite forest and stream critters. Some of the footage here I have never seen anywhere else! Also amazing that we can have the origin of our mud puppy population back to one professor! Thanks for making this! Always happy to see new uploads.
This was really cool. Well made. Thank you!
I miss the magical forests of New England. I’m in Florida where massive habitat destruction is a way of life. An ignorant life.
@@marzupalami Florida has been attracting every right-wing fanatic on the continent for the last eight years.
Florida IS NOT like everywhere else.
@marzupalami you should research the history of florida. the _entire state_ is a land reclamation project. the largest ever undertaken, actually. the u.s. army corps of engineers spent alot of time down here. this awful state exists solely because a bunch of rich people wanted to build their own knock-off island paradise in the middle of a swamp. thats really it. the cows kickstarted the economy, nobody wanted anything to do with this place for a long time, till the real estate could finally be developed using _more modern technology_ . prior to floridas transformation, one of the few factors preventing it from happening sooner was literally the technology and tools required would have made the task almost impossible. florida really is just a beautiful place continuously marked by destruction and violence, for ever, end of.
@@Rexini_Kobalt, At this point, the entire reason for the state of Florida existing is as an economic vehicle for rich land developers to become even richer by draining and developing swampland, building homes in places that are likely to flood and be subject to severe storm damage, and which should never be built upon. The destruction of wildlife habitat and of the wild spaces that slow and filter the water, and prevent or moderate storm surges and floods, is only half of the equation. The other half is the massive amount of taxpayer money that it will require to help residents after a storm and to repair, replace, or reimburse for, dwellings that have been flooded or destroyed, and the insurance companies can't cover all the losses, and subsequently decide not to write policies in Florida anymore. It's already happening in FL, and in CA as well (due to expensive losses from wildfires). Right now the Florida real estate market is being played a little like a game of musical chairs, with everybody dancing to the drumbeat of all that money being made, except that when the music stops, the rich developers will be the first to be found sitting pretty in a chair on the highest physical and financial ground, or perhaps having moved outside of the state altogether.
Yeah but you've got Pythons and
Iguanas !!
Its everywhere even up in New England!
Absolutely outstanding documentary. Salamanders are beautiful and fascinating. Red efts are “the perfect animal.” Absolutely…. Perfect. I miss New Hampshire. Thank you for this excellent documentary without all the extra “fluff.”
Makes me miss the vernal ponds in my backyard at my old house in Kingston NH, probably had 3 over 3 acres!
Amazing video
Fascinating.
Excellent channel including your information on New England old growth trees and spotted salamanders.😊😮s
This is really cool, im glad you guys are covering local wildlife. I hope you do a feature video on garter snakes in the future. Everyone knows they exist, but very few people realize theyre some of the most interesting snakes in the world. I only found out theyre the most social snakes in the world a few years ago, and i think theyd be more appreciated if that was common knowledge.
Thank you so much for this. I found it fascinating. Growing up in Connecticut I saw many spotted salamanders. I saw Red Newt in New Hampshire when I was just a child, I thought they were the coolest thing. But they are the canary in the mine, and they are dying...
Well in Connecticut red newts seem plentiful.
Fascinating! Thank you for creating and sharing this video!
Excellent work! Thank you for sharing.
This has so much good information and amazing footage!
This was genuinely interesting!
Another outstanding video, great job! Now I have to go search for salamanders tomorrow.
Really love this content. Thank you so much for providing it!
Great channel and great narrator! 👍
Thank you heaps for all the amazing content you upload. I have watched all your content many times over. Informative, funny, amazing videography. A real pleasure.
Fascinating, i loved it!
Great channel, thanks for the informative and detailed looks into our world!
love this. when I was a kid, every April we would go help amphibians out of the roads!
This is an amazing, in-depth documentary! :) I've learnt so much!
This is awesome.
You should do one on salamanders of the MidAtlantic states.
When i was a kid - in the 1960s and 70s, there were LOTS of vernal pools in the forests of northern New Jersey. Always magical places where life appeared in spring, disappeared in summer, then came back in the fall.
Unfortunately, construction here has destroyed many of them.
The insect life of these pools is also interesting. Would like to find a good book on them.
That was pretty interesting! In Middle Europe (at least in Germany) we have just six species of salamanders - non is fully aquatic and none fully terrestrial.
Awesome channel ! I love it ❤
Thanks, I learned a lot about these critters.
the video we all need!
Great documentary! Very good narrator! 👍
Are the chomping noises with the newts eating the aphids added in or do they actually make those chomping noises? If so I love them even more
Hmmm…. you just might have to find one and observe it closely. Whether you actually hear it chomping or not, you’re going to enjoy the experience. 🙂
Unbelievably well done and well shot. Great work!
Learned a lot about what we see in our local woods
Fantastic photography and a mesmerising piece. In the UK, we just have three species of newts - and no salamanders, so I feel quite jealous!
Yes. Britain probably has the most
boring wildlife in the World .!!
The fox is our Apex predator...!?!?
As many issues as I have with New England (primarily how crowded and expensive it is, especially near the coast), I absolutely love having grown up here
Well we have good news in Connecticut. Our forests are starting to reach old age. Also there's not too much development.
Good video, I learned a lot.
Great video! Your videos are just getting better and better.
Thanks Liam. It’s taken a few years to get a lot of this technology through my dense skull, and every day it gets tougher to keep it in there. But hopefully at least the message comes through clearly.
Hurray for salamanders! ^^
I’m going back to Massachusetts in a week from now, I would love to take some time to try and look for some of these species, love the New England is amphibian land!!
Wow! I learned so much from this video! Thank you for your hard work making this!
WOW!
Top footage! Good show!
Astonishingly good!
Salamanders are so cute! Great video :)
Such a cool TH-cam video! Thanks!
Thank you so much. I can stop looking for the Mud puppies in Averill Lake in VT.
A wonderful documentary. Really nice! A side note and half jest; who knew those spotted newts sound exactly like people when licking and munching on their prey? ;)
very interesting vid.....peace out
This is amazing thank you alot ❤❤❤
Mind officially blown! What a great video. I will definitely take a much closer look next spring at the vernal pools, puddles and such.
Greetings from the BIG SKY. I've only seen the tiger back salamander once near Fort Peck reservoir on the gravel road into Crooked Creek.
I'm Boston guy, I love all wildlife, since watching Mutual of Omaha as a kid in the 60's, but these guys give me the willies.
I imagine they might feel that way about us too!
have you guys ever thought of doing a video on the beautiful underwater world of new England's freshwaters.
I don’t think I’d like to spend that much time underwater. But I’m sure it could be an interesting world to explore.
Love this video
Being a young kid back in the late 60's early 70's we used to catch Eastern Red Spotted salamanders by the 100's. After a good rain at my families summer cottage deep in the woods of N.H., salamanders were everywhere. Used to bring a bunch back home and I'd sell them to neighborhood kids for 25 cents each. Not bad for a 7-10 yr old kid.
Did you work for Bernie Madoff ?
In Vermont here, i would walk our dirt road & see dozens. Thanks for the memories.
I've walked many creeks around here pursuing trout. I never saw salamanders, now I know why.
Thank you Ray. The other day while walking down my road in rural North Carolina just north of Raleigh I found a red ef in the roadway and enticed it to get onto my sunhat so that I could move it to a safer place. . I hate seeing so many creatures run over on our roads.
I hope the eft gave you a smile in gratitude for that act of kindness 🙂
Great video!
I remember there was a science teacher in HS that was big into the vernal ponds.
we have red-backed salamanders here in NH but we called them "two stripes" because the red back has a black pencil thin line down the middle. must be a local variation.
I found a Jefferson salamander in Bedford when I was younger!