We went up to the reservoir today. A few of the students found the hike tiring, but a couple of the boys who seemed to have been straining at the leash all weak had a great time. In fact, pretty much everyone had a great time. The reptiles and amphibians were out and about enjoying the warm Spring weather too.

Here's an Alligator Lizard perched on top of my hat. Just today I realized that they're sort of sausage shaped. Poor things.




And now, feeelthy peectures of ampheeebians. There were long strings of toad eggs in the water as well, and over where the ground got shady and marshy, I must have frightened off about fifty young Bullfrogs. Splashing and rustling everywhere.




Finally, here's a shot of the largest Garter Snake we found today. It was sitting right in the middle of the trail that follows the shoreline of the reservoir. One of the girls almost stepped on it. Later, we almost stepped on another one. Fortunately no actual stepping occurred.




In all, we found four Garter Snakes (two of them babies), One Alligator Lizard, countless Fence Lizards, multitudes of mating Toads, one baby Toad, and more small Bullfrogs than one would think possible. Out in the reservoir, Cormorants croaked at us.