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Well, the herping is probably about done for this year since the temperatures are dropping below freezing for days at a time, so I think its safe to say that I won't be finding much more this year. So I will post some of my favorite findings.
1. Taricha granulosa female. I like this one in particular because she has brown patches on her belly and the bottoms of her legs are brown. This brown coloration doesn't occur very often so it was a neat find.
2. Another female T. granulosa. This one was extremely gravid...more so than I have ever seen before.
This is the first T. granulosa that I have ever found outside of road herping or on accident. It is a sub adult, it might breed this next spring for the first time.
Here is a male T. granulosa that has a double tail at the end, probably caused because the tail got severed or smashed and then regrew wrong.
These are Dicamptodon tenebrosus, both found underneath the same rock in a stream. One is terrestrial the other is neotenic. I don't think they are adults, but I can't be sure.
Here is a very beautifully colored Pseudocris regilla, with the tan and green and grey and milky ventral area, it makes a nice looking frog.
Here is a adult ( female? ) Plethodon vehiculum, the largest I have found. It was nearly five inches, about 47/8.
This is a Plethodon vehiculum hatchling I found, along with several others. They were all within a one foot or so of a small piece of wood, which is where I figure the eggs originally were.
Here is a juvenile Ambystoma gracile. It is always neat to see their defense posture and poison. This one, however, secreted a LOT of poison, especially for the size of the animal.
Another juvenile A. gracile in defense posture.
A adult male A. gracile with almost half his tail missing. The sad thing is that he was on his way to the breeding grounds, and having a short tail probably gave him a disadvantage against other males because of the problems swimming it causes.
A adult female A. gracile, with a missing toe, found only a few minutes and about thirty yards from the male. I still can't figure out how she lost just one toe......?
A juvenile Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonesis with a nice purple amount of color on it.
Adult Ambystoma macrodactylum, a rare find for me. I only found about four this year.
Ascaphus truei tadpole. This is one of probably a dozen or more tadpoles that I found that day, along with several D. tenebrosus, so it was a pretty great herping day.
My favorite picture of the year. A adult ( male? ) Rana aurora, found accidentally while flipping for salamanders. I like the photo because it kind of captures it in its element, and the subject ( his eye in particular ) is gorgeous ( as weird as that may sound....).
A juvenile R. aurora which has interesting coloration. The color of the patterning on the side of this one was kind of a blue grey, which reminded me of Ichtyosaura. It doesn't show up in the photo as well as you could see in real life. It really was a beautiful and interesting find....
Well, that's about it. My favorite finds of 2014. I hope you enjoyed! -Seth
1. Taricha granulosa female. I like this one in particular because she has brown patches on her belly and the bottoms of her legs are brown. This brown coloration doesn't occur very often so it was a neat find.
2. Another female T. granulosa. This one was extremely gravid...more so than I have ever seen before.
This is the first T. granulosa that I have ever found outside of road herping or on accident. It is a sub adult, it might breed this next spring for the first time.
Here is a male T. granulosa that has a double tail at the end, probably caused because the tail got severed or smashed and then regrew wrong.
These are Dicamptodon tenebrosus, both found underneath the same rock in a stream. One is terrestrial the other is neotenic. I don't think they are adults, but I can't be sure.
Here is a very beautifully colored Pseudocris regilla, with the tan and green and grey and milky ventral area, it makes a nice looking frog.
Here is a adult ( female? ) Plethodon vehiculum, the largest I have found. It was nearly five inches, about 47/8.
This is a Plethodon vehiculum hatchling I found, along with several others. They were all within a one foot or so of a small piece of wood, which is where I figure the eggs originally were.
Here is a juvenile Ambystoma gracile. It is always neat to see their defense posture and poison. This one, however, secreted a LOT of poison, especially for the size of the animal.
Another juvenile A. gracile in defense posture.
A adult male A. gracile with almost half his tail missing. The sad thing is that he was on his way to the breeding grounds, and having a short tail probably gave him a disadvantage against other males because of the problems swimming it causes.
A adult female A. gracile, with a missing toe, found only a few minutes and about thirty yards from the male. I still can't figure out how she lost just one toe......?
A juvenile Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonesis with a nice purple amount of color on it.
Adult Ambystoma macrodactylum, a rare find for me. I only found about four this year.
Ascaphus truei tadpole. This is one of probably a dozen or more tadpoles that I found that day, along with several D. tenebrosus, so it was a pretty great herping day.
My favorite picture of the year. A adult ( male? ) Rana aurora, found accidentally while flipping for salamanders. I like the photo because it kind of captures it in its element, and the subject ( his eye in particular ) is gorgeous ( as weird as that may sound....).
A juvenile R. aurora which has interesting coloration. The color of the patterning on the side of this one was kind of a blue grey, which reminded me of Ichtyosaura. It doesn't show up in the photo as well as you could see in real life. It really was a beautiful and interesting find....
Well, that's about it. My favorite finds of 2014. I hope you enjoyed! -Seth
) I would love to see them as well!