jbradbury's Identifications

This light green and tan frog was approximately 3 cm long. It was found near Double Ponds, in Pepperwood Preserve, hopping in the tall grasses. In this area there were at least 10, probably more, similar frogs.

A frog that is about the size of a quarter. It has a brown body with white specks on its belly .On its hind legs has a brown spot pattern Has a dark brown streak on the side of its face with goldish eyes. It lived in tall grass next to Turtle pond,

This frog was in length less than an inch without the legs being outstretched. There is a black line near his eye and spots on the webbed feet. It was found in the grasses near a small pond. With the help of Californiaherps.com, I was able to indenitify the frog because it is native in the range. It spends a lot of time near water and can be found in various types of environment in California, especially ponds. The Sierran Treefrog has the same stripes and spots. I also believe it is a juvenile because it is so small and matched the size pictures on the website. Over a hundred other frogs surrounding.

This frog was about the size of a penny and was found hopping around a large pond along with another 100 frogs. It has distinct markings around the face and the eyes. I believe this is a Sierran Tree Frog because it looks similar to another frog I previously identified.

This frog was found near a small pond amongst many other similar frogs. This one in particular was roughly 1.5 cm long. It is brown in color with darker brown markings on the back. It has a yellow stomach and yellow eyes. Each leg had 3 toes. The frogs were very quick and were hard to capture as well.

Camera: Nikon Coolpix S33

The frog was in between long grass that surrounded a pond. It is dark green with several dark spots on the back. It also has a dark line that starts at the the front of the mouth and ends in the neck area. It was relatively calm and is about 1.5 cm long.
Source-http://www.californiaherps.com/frogs/frogsmaps.html.

This Jerusalem Cricket or "Potato Bug" was found underneath a 10 inch rock. The rock was covered in moss and was moist underneath as well as the soil below. The bug was found burrowed in the soil underneath the rock. The body and thorax is 3cm in length and 5.5cm with the antennae. Abdomen has dark stripes divided by skinny tan ones. The hind legs or thighs are significantly thicker than the other legs, thus indicating that this creature jumps. Each leg has a small hook at the end. Each leg has small spikes on them too.

Camera: Nikon Coolpix S33

These flowers were located under a tree and formed in clumps and little bushes. The leaves of this flower had sticky undersides, leading me to believe it was a sticky monkeyflower. I was told you can identify the monkeyflower through its leaves by Nicole Barden, an environmental educator.