Just yesterday I was with my wilderness skills group, a group specifically for home schooled kids when some of us decided to take a couple minutes to look under rotting logs for salamanders. It was our lucky day because we found some of the most colorful and rare salamanders that live in Connecticut. After first finding some of the northern red backed salamanders we did a little more searching and uncovered the spotted salamander. The spotted salamander is about four inches long and has bright yellow spots to contrast is dark brown body. We kept searching and latter found a blue spotted salamander, it is short and has tiny blue spots all over its body. The week before this I found a young red spotted newt, it's bright orange body really shows against the dark colors of the leaves and dirt. I had a awesome time finding some of the local salamanders and I cant wait for the next chance I get.