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Update: the E. Coquí frog was captured by a licensed herpetologist who lives here; he will transport it to the Natural History Museum on 8-24-23. He is the photographer of the two images.

This creature has been chirping since the rain from the tropical storm in LA ended. Chirping only heard at night.

The herpetologist found that the owner of the condo where the coquí was located had recently brought home a plant from Rolling Greens Nursery.

© John Dittli c/o Leslie Goethals Dittli. Permission to post granted.

~7100' elevation. Great Basin Rattlesnakes engaged in "combat dance". These were the 2 biggest & most faded rattlesnakes we have seen at this location.

The bigger snake with the scar on his back was the victor, the other snake slithered away when they were done. The snake with the scar on his back spent almost a week in the rocks with a much smaller rattlesnake, most likely the female. :-)

I've mountain biked this section of trail several hundred times in the past decade, but this was the first time I've seen a horned lizard in the area. I think this is about 2.5 km NE of the nearest record, and one of the two easternmost records for this part of the Santa Monicas (between Topanga and the 405). However, because of auto-obscuring on iNat, it is now difficult to track the range of this species.