North Coast Diaries
Salamander high season --- Sunday, October 18, 2009
It's been raining with some regularity over the past couple weeks and this dampens up the forest enough to bring out the amphibians. Michelle and I along with David Bailey and his daughter, Eva, ran the annual salamander census at Circle Creek this morning with the following results:
10 Northwestern Salamanders
27 Rough-skinned Newts
1 Columbia Torrent Salamander
1 Oregon Ensatina
18 Western Red-backed Salamanders
4 Dunn's Salamanders
7 Northern Red-legged Frogs
1 Pacific Tree Frog
Here's a photo-sample of what we saw...
 Northwestern Salamander
 An unusual dark-morph Northwestern Salamander.
 Western Red-backed Salamander
 Dunn's Salamander
 Columbia Torrent Salamander
 Oregon Ensatina
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