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Probably Lesser (canadensis) as that's the dominate SSP in neighboring Imperial county at the Salton Sea and the red crown seems fairly limited.

Found in a cave.

Mother and pup. Photos 1, 2, 3 are the mother, photo 4 is the pup. They (and a 3rd seal I saw later) had green algae growing all over them.

Found in woodrat nest during field research. Military training firing range, access highly restricted

Pair of House Wrens nesting deep in the throat of a Pterodactly sculpture.

First photo is a strange albino individual.

OR-103 on a brief sojourn into the Salmon River watershed before he was killed in Oregon.

Western Grebe with large sucker species that it fed to a Clark's Grebe.

First pair of chum seen spawning in this creek in a while. In the past we have seen chum but no evidence of pairs before.

Mating? The larger brighter colored one emerged first, followed by the two slightly smaller drabber colored ones, who wrapped themselves around it when it stopped.

Found another mystery KRP Spadefoot in the same area as the last one. I am now leaning towards Great Basin Spadefoot, which I think is still a fairly big range extension.

Photographed under authorization of USFWS

Gopher Tortoise Tick (Amblyomma tuberculatum) on a Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus).

Growing in talus on north face of Cross Mountain. Hundreds to thousands scattered in steep, mobile scree.

I have no idea what this lizard is definitely not a western fence lizard

I saw this snake at rest for a while and then slithering away in the Ballona freshwater marsh.

Two live individuals present.

175ft deep

in the ranches on the border with mexico next to the river

20 inches long and not positive of my identification

Snapping turtle caught a duck by the beak. (nb see the duck post to see what happened)

Swimming very slowly at the surface, barely noticed my kayak was there. Swam within 1ft of kayak, did not spook.

Found cooling off in a bromeliad!
43 Pompano Place, Meerensee

Jepson Prairie Preserve, Solano County California

This individual was observed by Alejandro Mijangos-Betanzos. It was submitted as UTADC 9821a–e. It was published as a range extension in Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society:

As evidenced by bloody waters, the pod devoured something at the mouth of the bay. All 3-4 individuals then entered the bay and left about an hour later.

Some of the southern-most native Douglas Firs in the U.S. (although they occur farther south in Mexico).

An old photo from a colony containing both C.pulchellus and C.umbellatus . This is the rare hybrid of the two.

New born or very young,
Only one ring around the neck, dark body.

Eating a racer!

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