This wouldn't be mountain yellow-legged frog, they're restricted to the Sierras. Probably foothill yellow-legged, but I'm surprised you'd find them in a reservoir, usually they are pretty sensitive to habitat change.... generally I find them in the riffle areas of fairly pristine creeks. What kind of habitat was this guy in?
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Not sure about this ID, they seemed to be young frogs, might go back and try to get some better pictures of them.
This wouldn't be mountain yellow-legged frog, they're restricted to the Sierras. Probably foothill yellow-legged, but I'm surprised you'd find them in a reservoir, usually they are pretty sensitive to habitat change.... generally I find them in the riffle areas of fairly pristine creeks. What kind of habitat was this guy in?
Ooops I meant to do Foothill as they've been seen in this preserve before. They were in the last pools of a dry creek in Oak/Chapparal woodlands.
Cool - thats great that they are there as they are declining from a lot of areas. They also look like foothill to me.
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