i live in southern colorado-in colorado springs -where 2 different subspecies clash (barred and blotched), it is interesting you saw so many at once-you must be on a migratory pathway. its amazing -in some areas a few blocks are the only ares i can locate tigers at night-you move off one road and you'll be lucky to see even one-i think they have this stuff worked out allong time ago before houses were built. we have a problem out there (its where my sister lives in black forest) that when the new morphs leave the ponds in the fall they have a habit of falling in window wells and either living there the rest of their lives (burrowing down into the area between the foundation and the dirt ) or dieing in the wells. the ones you found that were mottled and dark sound like new morphs -they will take a while to come into their adult colours. since we have had so little rain many of the ponds a drying up-this will encourage cannibalism and force maturation and morphing at a much earlier time-that my be why you are seeing them now during a rain and not in the fall.

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