Cleaning the side yard under old rotted planks...left the planks there. One large one and about 4 smaller ones
Found by Marcos Carrellos, Nicholas Hess, Makkia Brockoway, and Caroline Pederson
I was really trying to make this into a B. stebbinsi…but I feel it’s legs and feet aren’t long/large enough unfortunately, and it’s belly is a match for nigriventris. It was the largest B. nigriventris I’ve ever seen…
Black-bellied slender salamander from San Luis Obsipo County, California.
At a locality where both minor and nigriventris are present
At a locality where both nigriventris and minor are present. Last photo is a photo of the back legs of this individual on top of a comparison of minor and nigriventris
This one has stumped me for months. Was photographed from the forest floor, about 10 meters up. Found within a mixed flock of many foliage gleaners, xenops, canopy myrmotherula, and tanagers. Bird is centered in the photographs, perched on the woody vine.
Found floating in the water, took it out to get photos and then replaced. It was alive and when the purple mouthparts were touched it extended those little hooks and went for a little chomp
South side of El Paso Creek, between Lopez flats and Arealb cabin, Tehachapi Mountains.
MVZ-272605
ID confirmed with DNA
Milk Snake ?? Coast Mountain King Snake ?? Red black and white.
Santa Barbara county. Nojoqui Falls.
Heavily cropped photos, full shots at the end
Unfamiliar with pink bird on right, potentially a vagrant?
Zona con pocas áreas verdes y árboles bajos
My lifer rubber boa from when I was 10, found in a place where they can be quite elusive