Standing on tiny islet in front of Casa Rossa. After ca 15 minutes it was gone.
Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream, closely associated with a Two-lined Salamander. Tail appeared laterally compressed and somewhat keeled in life, more closely approaching the impression in the third photo rather than the first two in-hand photos, where the tail is drooping over the finger and partly obscured
Red back? He flopped upside down a bit.
2 on the pond this morning.
photo credits to Alan Kneidel