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With Don Fraser, Clint Gibson, and many others; a nocturnal moth survey organized by Virginia "Ginny" Hamilton of The Nature Conservancy. There were two moth arrays about 600 feet apart. This was the second array, set up in an open flatwoods site adjacent to a marsh. While I was fixated on the moth array, Clint Gibson -- of course, who else? -- finds a frigging Gopher Frog maybe 80 feet away, sitting calmly at the entrance to a (n abandoned?) Gopher Tortoise burrow! A lifer for everybody, I think (if only by sight; I had heard Gopher Frogs at Archbold Biological Station in the 1990s, but had never seen one; some others had also heard them previously but had never seen one).

A lifer amphibian!