Seen near the summit of Mt. Lemmon about midway between the Observatory Road top parking area and the top of the ski lift. Stump was on the edge of forest and clearing / meadow. Specimen in collection.

Seen while camping with the Mongolian Aquatic Insect Survey. Khentii Aimag, Dadal Soum, Balj Gol 4.6 km N of Dadal. Site # MAIS2011071801. For my records: TAM_260, CRN 9940.

Identified by skimming through the Kuzmin 2017 Amphibians of Mongolia monograph, but I'm not an expert on frog ID.

Seen while camping with the Mongolian Aquatic Insect Survey. Tov Aimag, Lun Soum, Tuul Gol at Lun. Site # MAIS2011070101. For my records: TAM_210, CRN 9867. Not really at 2 am (I must not have fixed my camera's clock yet.)

Identified by skimming through the Kuzmin 2017 Amphibians of Mongolia monograph, but I'm not an expert on toad ID.

Seen while camping with the Mongolian Aquatic Insect Survey. Dornod Aimag, Norovlin Soum. I think this was site # MAIS2011072003. For my records: TAM_266, CRN 9952.

Identified by skimming through the Kuzmin 2017 Amphibians of Mongolia monograph, but I'm not an expert on toad ID.

The pictures and specimens we had for this species in my herpetology class didn't do it justice. When I finally saw one live, I was taken aback by how breathtakingly beautiful they are. Such an explosion of color-- orange! yellow! blue! purple! black! tan! I especially love those scales like little sunsets on the dorsum.

Noticed this feller wriggling through a gap between the sidewalk slabs in the middle of UT campus at night and thought it was an earthworm at first. Seeing scales soon set me straight on that, but then I had to puzzle through the fact that it didn't have the typical snake head-- no (apparent) eyes, no tapered snout. Crouching over the edge of the sidewalk eventually caught the notice of a nearby cop, who came over to make sure I wasn't drunk and incapacitated. He didn't know what to make of my unbridled enthusiasm for a (harmless, and by then hidden) snake! And all the while my dad was waiting patiently on hold on my pocket (I had been talking to him on my cell when I noticed the snake). A nice bit of serendipity to add to my life list.
There had been a misting of rain in the hour before this guy came out.

Driving through the mountains, we spooked a golden eagle that was perching on a forest service road. When it took off, it dropped this impressive mostly-dead rattler and then perched nearby to watch us (see second photo). Note how the head was mauled, but within a few minutes this snake scared us all by starting to rattle, then starting to slither, then trying to eat every rock in his agony-laden path.
I'm guessing this is Crotalus oreganus, the great basin rattlesnake, but I'm no expert.

While I was looking for flies, I came across this feller who had obviously had a bad day recently, but hey, he lived to run another day!
I'd guess a zebra tailed lizard based on the Peterson's field guide.

From my notes: "These were perching on sticks and logs on the ground. The area is open, where power lines cut through the forest near a big bedrock reef; within 50 m of a stream. Sandy/leaf litter substrate."

Don't know what the prey is. This is a good, reliable population; they've been here every year for the last decade.

Also on bugguide: https://bugguide.net/node/view/858822

From my notes: "These are common on the beaches of Oregon and Washington. They perch on bare sand between vegetation clumps, especially around the front dune."
Also on bugguide: https://bugguide.net/node/view/858866

From my notes: These were perching on head-sized boulders in the creek.
I also collected them at the same locality on 7 May 2012.
Specimen in collection."
Also on bugguide: https://bugguide.net/node/view/858856

From my notes: "Nice endemic sand treader camel cricket, from the type locality. There were hundreds of them crawling around on the sand in the morning, seemed to thin out by noonish.
Specimen in my collection (as well as some ethanol specimens). ID by Dan Swanson." Also on Bugguide as https://bugguide.net/node/view/858848