Hi Louise,
It looks like a Western Red-backed Salamander *Plethodon vehiculum *to me,
but I would have to see it in better light to confirm.
Paul
On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 10:48 PM Louise Rutter <
louiserutter1000 at gmail.com>
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Not birds this time, I'm afraid, but the members here cover a wide variety
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of nature interests. I found a salamander in my yard here in Kirkland last
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week, and I would have expected it to be a northwestern salamander, as they
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seem to be the common ones around here. But judging from the Burke museum
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site and other images we googled, the proportions of the one I found don't
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look quite right for a northwestern and almost like the extra long and thin
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Dunn's salamander, which is only supposed to live in the southwestern
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corner of the state. It was a very generic dark brown without much in the
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way of obvious markings.
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I have a fairly short video of it that my husband made (I only handled it
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very briefly and then wetted it down again and put it back under the wood
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where I found it). Does anyone happen to be or know of any salamander
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specialists who might cast an eye over it? This is only the second
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Washington salamander I've seen, so I know nothing about the variation
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within a species, I only have online photos to judge from.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTs9fLwhj08
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Louise Rutter
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Kirkland
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