Last Friday found my coworker and I out looking for amphibian egg masses again. No egg masses but we did find some larvae and tadpoles. The ponds with all of the rough-skinned newt egg masses yielded one rough-skinned newt larvae- that's it. Like the egg masses, we suspect they are under the leaves and now that they can move, they're cruising under the leaves out of sight. Our other site with frogs and salamanders yielded at least 11 Pacific tree frog tadpoles and 19 larval salamanders- likely the long-toed since they were most numerous. Not much for all the eggs we saw earlier this spring. We were happy to find them, though.
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| the one kinda decent photo of a salamander larvae-brown spot center of photo. You can see the gills. |
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| Pacific tree frog tadpole as it comes to the surface briefly |
One of the ponds where the newt was, was full of tiny worms swaying in the shallow water like marine tube worms. I haven't had a chance to find out what that was about. This shallow seasonal pond was full of life swimming around. Amazing life all around us if only we stop, kneel down, and look.
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see the curved stick? That's the "turn over leaves carefully" stick that found the newt. You need special tools for this work!
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Next month we will visit again and see how big everybody is as it's unlikely we will find any more egg masses.
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