Short Fairmount Park Excursion. Need a couple Id's

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:05 PM

So it was a beautiful day yesterday so me and my girlfriend decided to go walking through Fairmount Park between Roxbourough and Andorra. Heres what i saw. need some ID's on some of these things.

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:06 PM

coolest beetles ever

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:08 PM

what are these plants on the rocks? seen them before but cant remember...

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:10 PM

Hahaha!

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:13 PM

Some kind of hydrocotyle??

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:15 PM

Overturned one rock and look what i found....an Eastern Redback Salamander

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:21 PM

Although it was the size of a 75g aquarium, i still thought the wood looked really cool

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:25 PM

Leopard frog?

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 02:31 PM

looking up the hill.

Bushkill · 05-24-2012, 02:57 PM

What did the inscription at the bottom of the "tomb" say in #3?

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 03:31 PM

just looked at the pic on my phone and zoomed in. the moss is covering up the letters before the "B" or "E" hard to tell, but it reads (E-B)STO PERPETUAL. Latin for something

Bushkill · 05-24-2012, 05:41 PM

Hmmmm. Interesting spot for a crypt and sealed up like that.

I have two kids going to school in Philly at the same time (Yes, money's an issue), and drive past Fairmount pretty often over the course of the year. I may have to make a side-trip or two when they go back in the fall instead of whizzing past.

Bushkill · 05-24-2012, 05:47 PM

We see those salamanders all the time in the early spring in our part of Pa.

But my all time favorite is the Red Eft:

http://srelherp.uga.edu/salamanders/notvir.htm

I don't throw the term "cute" around often, but when I find the little ones that are about an inch long, it just fits.

The Trigger · 05-24-2012, 09:11 PM

Yeah they're cool looking I wish I had found one of them. And that wasn't a crypt lol. would be pretty creepy if it was in the middle of a hiking trail. There was a history plaque next to it that said it used to be a natural spring and spot to get drinking water. water filtered naturally down through the rocks and collected there. Was built in the 1800's and sealed up in the early 1950's because the water became too polluted to drink....figures

GitMoe · 05-24-2012, 09:18 PM

Rad, sometimes I forget there are nice things about Philadelphia. Well, besides the Barcade and Frankford Hall. Im a Fishtown junky...

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Bushkill Planted Tank Obsessed (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Bushkill, Pa Posts: 412	What did the inscription at the bottom of the "tomb" say in #3?

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The Trigger Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (6/100%) Join Date: May 2012 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Posts: 578	just looked at the pic on my phone and zoomed in. the moss is covering up the letters before the "B" or "E" hard to tell, but it reads (E-B)STO PERPETUAL. Latin for something

05-24-2012, 05:41 PM	#12
Bushkill Planted Tank Obsessed (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Bushkill, Pa Posts: 412	Hmmmm. Interesting spot for a crypt and sealed up like that. I have two kids going to school in Philly at the same time (Yes, money's an issue), and drive past Fairmount pretty often over the course of the year. I may have to make a side-trip or two when they go back in the fall instead of whizzing past.

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Bushkill Planted Tank Obsessed (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Bushkill, Pa Posts: 412	We see those salamanders all the time in the early spring in our part of Pa. But my all time favorite is the Red Eft: http://srelherp.uga.edu/salamanders/notvir.htm I don't throw the term "cute" around often, but when I find the little ones that are about an inch long, it just fits.

05-24-2012, 09:11 PM	#14
The Trigger Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (6/100%) Join Date: May 2012 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Posts: 578	Yeah they're cool looking I wish I had found one of them. And that wasn't a crypt lol. would be pretty creepy if it was in the middle of a hiking trail. There was a history plaque next to it that said it used to be a natural spring and spot to get drinking water. water filtered naturally down through the rocks and collected there. Was built in the 1800's and sealed up in the early 1950's because the water became too polluted to drink....figures