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Found this adult male in a roadside ditch while I was out scouting the area during daylight in preparation for a night-time amphibian survey planned for later that evening. The first Blanding's I'd ever found myself in the wild! Of course it was by the last coastal wetland in that area of the south shore of Georgian Bay; it was slated for development despite all the obvious development constraints of building next to a wetland