After viewing Patrick A's post a few days ago I decided to post a few pics of my own. Not all are herps, but that's not entirely the point, imo.
Here's a picture of one of our ponds in June...
A lot of plants and animals are attracted to wetlands, including this pond. Here's a gray treefrog I photographed last spring...
The following animals were seen near this pond. A baby gray treefrog, in situ, on a milkweed plant, from yesterday...
Invertebrates are around the ponds in abundance. Here's a dragonfly with a Baltimore butterfly in the background...
A banana spider. A couple weeks ago these "old field" orb weavers were so small you could barely see them, in spite of hundreds of webs in the fields. Northern MI barely has a long enough season for them to reach adult size and reproduce before the first frost kills them...
Orb weavers need tall plants in open areas, so old fields are a must for their ecology. I'm very happy with the way our wetlands and open fields have drawn animals since improving the habitat. A lot of those animals are herps too 
Terry Cox
Afton Farm, MI
