Our last day monitoring for amphibians found us searching plant leaves in the mitigation area. This proved to be quite successful! It's interesting that we found no egg masses of the pacific chorus frogs although we found a couple of tadpoles at this site. There are wetlands beyond the county mitigation area and a small seasonal streams flows through the site. Neighbors have heard the frogs croaking. The only egg masses we found here were rough-skinned newt and long-toed salamanders. I didn't take the photos in this post as I forgot my camera. These were taken with our county camera by a co-worker.
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| This one has gold stripes. Beautiful coloration. |
We found most of the frogs on thimbleberry leaves. They were also on red alder leaves, pacific ninebark, and willow. I think I'm missing a couple of other leaves we found them on. The lesson here is that August is a great time to get out and search leaves for Pacific chorus frogs (tree frogs) near wetlands, wet areas, and streams. My co-workers have found 9 or more on leaves in other areas.
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| Hanging in the shade of a thimbleberry leaf |
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| Check it out- he's gold! |
Frogs symbolize birth and rebirth, cleansing, transformation, renewal, ancient mysteries, and good luck. After finding so many (20) in our monitoring area, I feel renewed!
