Salamanders are on the surface of the land and in the water in late winter and early spring.
Here is some information on seven species that live in the S.F. Bay Region. Some of the information was learned by reading books by Robert C. Stebbins. There are more than ten species of Batrachoseps in California with more being described as we go . B. attenuatus is the only one found in the greater San Francisco Bay Region. They never purposely enter water and young resemble adults but are smaller.