Well even if I can't share awesome salamander photos during our drought I can at least share the wonderful fall days we've been having.  It's been absolutely glorious with days in the 70's and nights in the 30's.  Even with nothing going on in the Bay I've been trying to go often just for an excuse to get outside.  Today we returned some salamanders that were caught over the last week or so---just a few stragglers that came in and needed to be processed.  The cool thing was that one female actually laid a few eggs in the bin we had them in.  That's how desperate they are--put them in a bin with wet paper towels and it's the closest thing they've seen to good breeding conditions!  Just a few eggs so hopefully when it finally does rain she'll still have plenty of eggs to lay.  Slight chance of rain Monday!  I'll be keeping my fingers crossed.