I love seeing lizards and salamanders whenever I'm out in nature! I love the orange color of this one that seems to glow as well as the eyes that I think are really cool looking!
Yellow-eyed Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica)
Redwood Regional Park
Oakland, CA
01-17-12
I had previously incorrectly identified this charming little one as a California newt (Taricha torosa) when I posted it, but have since changed the description.
Thank you to Ken-ichi for the correct ID, to scott.simono for concurring with him, and to Isa and Jessica from the EBRPD for vefifying the ID. =)
Explore #341, January 18, 2012 (Thank you Rita for letting me know).
EBRPD facebook photo of the day, January 19, 2012
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Crows flying
Redwood Regional Park
Oakland, CA
01-17-12
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Overwintering Ladybugs
Redwood Regional Park
Oakland, CA
01-17-12
Every winter here in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Oakland California, ladybugs overwinter at the Redwood Regional Park. This was my first time seeing them in person and it was an amazing sight! I have never seen so many ladybugs at one time! This was a very cold day, so they weren't moving around very much. There was still ice in the grass at the beginning of the trail that had not melted yet from the freezing temperature from the night before even though it was late afternoon. The dried thistle was covered with them! They looked like red berries and brought life back to this dried up thistle. This photo shows only some of them that I saw this day, but there were thousands more too! I took several photos of them, because I was so in awe of them.
Redwood Regional park is one of the East Bay Regional parks. It is just one of the many beautiful parks in the San Francisco Bay area that the public has access to. I hope that seeing this photo encourages the viewer to support and protect all of the beautiful local, regional, state and national parks, open spaces, preserves, museums, etc. that we are all fortunate enough to have available to us to enjoy, including the Academy.
(If anyone reads this and wants to see more photos of them, I have a set of 20 photos that I created on my Flickr photostream as well.)
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Overwintering Ladybugs
Redwood Regional Park
Oakland, CA
01-17-12
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Overwintering Ladybugs
Redwood Regional Park
Oakland, CA
01-17-12
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