Some more critters, in no particular order other than date.
I have quite the lots of images to still process, but between getting recent hatchlings squared, 1st trial feeds underway (at 27 of 58 hatchlings eating currently), and playing catch-up on regular honey-do list items (cutting the lawn, etc.) I've not had much time to process my images, let alone take photos of the newly hatched corn wormies.
Excuses aside...
My Lifer
regalis. I've been on trips where others have found regal ringnecks en route to a common herping destination, but never have I been within the group and/or the one to find it. This guy was decently sized at ~18-20 inches; large enough to take down hatchling snakes within the herping area and fuzzies. I've known others to have found regals approaching 3 ft and having kept and fed them hatchling gopher snakes (pretty decent sized hatchling snakes if you've never seen one) and even young spotted/childrens pythons!
DiRe-9-3-2016 by
Chris Cirrincione, on Flickr
DiRe-9-3-2016-2 by
Chris Cirrincione, on Flickr
DiRe-9-3-2016-3 by
Chris Cirrincione, on Flickr
The recently federally-listed Chiricahua Leopard Frog. These guys were SUPER alert compared to ones I've seen in NM. Was an absolute PITA to get photos and a spaced on getting photos of a couple egg masses. Tadpoles were equally difficult to photograph.
LiCh-9-3-2016 by
Chris Cirrincione, on Flickr
One of my favorite garter snakes...western black-neck garter, y-o-y.
ThCyCy-9-3-2016 by
Chris Cirrincione, on Flickr
And some black-neck garter food...Canyon Tree Frog metamorph. This guy was maybe 1/2in. Oddly I, nor my best friend saw a single adult
arenicolor. Usually in seeing the metamorphs and tads this time of year, we also happen upon adults. The adults can be variable in coloration, so we were really hoping to get an idea of what all the metamorphs we were seeing would turn into. Some can have a nice green marbling/spotting to them; rather nicely contrasted at times.
HyAr-9-4-2016 by
Chris Cirrincione, on Flickr
That's all for now. The coral in the OP was the 2nd highlight of the trip. And though the regal was awesome, I've seen them before. The 1st highlight is yet to come....