Great Blue vs Salamander

This was very interesting to watch...you can't see but a gator was approaching until the GBH ate the salamander the gator turned around to leave

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Good grief, that's a salamander? Ours are like 4" long! Great shot.

"Ours are like 4" long!" That's funny! That salamander - a greater siren - does grow to be quite large, probably up to 2' long. They have two small, T-rex like front legs and no back legs, with a laterally compressed tail for swimming ease. I think they were pretty common in south Texas where I used to live. Unless we were trapping them for surveys, almost no one ever saw them or knew they existed. Occasionally someone fishing would catch one, and usually assumed they were a freshwater eel.

Great capture. That salamander is a monster!

Man that is a big one, great shooting!

that salamander looks like what we used to call a mud puppy...that's a big one.

yeah, that's what we called them - nice shot

Nice catch.