Thank you! I'd love to see salamanders around here. Where in VA is this? I'm in Greenbelt, MD and am enjoying the return of the herps at Greenbelt Lake this past month. The five striped skinks made their first appearances last week, and we've got some huge old snappers, and plenty of red eared sliders, painted turtles, bullfrogs with an amazing amount of tadpoles this year (last year I saw a lot more adult frogs by this time), and saw a snake last weekend with 2 babies in tow last weekend, but am not sure on the species--I will ask you when I post pics of them here. My neighbor spotted a tree frog in Upper Marlboro last week--I've never seen one around here.