Yakima Indian Res. WA

Went camping with a couple friends and our significant others over Memorial Day weekend. Found a new spot on a stream with a good variety of landscape and herps.

I already posted these on the Field Notes & Observations forum, but I figured you guys might appreciate a couple of these so I’m re-posting here. The melanistic wandering was seriously interesting.

Parts were rocky


Parts were forest-y… Free car?


Pacific Chorus Tree Frog


In addition to the always-common Western Fence Lizard, we also found a bunch of these smaller lizards with orange throats. Not sure on the ID.


There were quite a few northwestern garters. We also found a couple that were actually interesting.
T.S. Fitchi, that I first thought was Concinnus


Melanistic Wandering. First one I’ve ever seen in the wild.



A couple of large Northern Pacifics found between two pieces of sheet metal


A good looking NorPac that was sitting near a shaded stream. This one was much lighter than the other two.


Where’s Waldo?



I’m pretty sure this Alligator Lizard is a Southern as opposed to the live-bearing Northern even though we were at the very edge of the Southern’s known range.

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