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Late to metamorph. All other tadpoles long since transformed to toads.

The lizard might be Aspidoscelis tigris?

My understanding is that T. elegans in San Luis Obispo county are black and yellow with little to no red.

Very small juvenile captured in order to release away from house. Notice size in comparison to thumb. (Distortion in second photo is a seam in the container.)

Carrizo Plain
So happy to find this!

Found under log in the sand

was under a coverboard with a jerusalem cricket. curled its tail, musked, and tried to flew when disturbed. the temperature under the board was 70.5 degrees F and the humidity was 90.1% RH.

Found in our pool in Madera County

Found on bank covered with mosses, Mediterranean grasses and forbs, growing from buried moth larvae and pupae. Found at same location a few years ago.

One of a number of Plummer's Mariposa Lilies blooming in the Johnson's Pasture area of the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park.

This is a hybrid - G. sila X G. wislizenii, confirmed by genetic data.

Pink variation

Rattlesnakes copulating at the Goodwin Ranch, Carrizo Plain National Monument.

Smallest hatchling ever!

Found while doing some light landscape cleanup at my old job. Very defensive at first but calmed very quickly

Found in Lincoln Co. OR. Unicolor/Patternless Adult.

A melanistic northwestern gartersnake found sunning on fallen Douglas fir branches on the edge of an old orchard.

One of four species of garter snake found within 500 feet of each other, all within one hour.

this is what i meant by cuddling. yellow stripe one with a green stripe one.

Cloudy cold temperatures, sitting above ground but inactive

Observed it eating two ants!

This must have come in with some of the ferns we planted.

Dendy's Toadlet (Pseudophryne dendyi) guarding a clutch of eggs in Croajingolong National Park in Australia