Herp-in-habitat photography
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Close shot of a Northern Water snake(Nerodia sipedon). Maybe its after that dragonfly nymph. Wildwood Lake, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. HMM
An incredible Brookesia from Marojejy National Park and one of my favorite finds of the trip. There are a lot of interesting chameleons out there but this spiky species is one of my favorites. Like most Brookesia it is a predominately terrestrial species that spends much of its time in the leaf litter. This species is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN due to its limited distribution in Northern Madagascar.
I spotted this tiny chameleon sleeping on a patch of dead ferns around 1 AM on a night hike. We were in the higher elevation parts of the park and the temperature was unusually cold. We were having a pretty unproductive night of herping up until then but this made the night out in bone-chilling rain worthwhile.
Finely, a willing subject. It's been a slow wildlife photography month around here.
Nikon D7200, Nikon 200-500mm. 1/250 sec at f/8, ISO 400, 500mm.
3 Dec 2018, Columbia, SC, USA.
I am going to be posting some really old photos of snakes for a while to get them onto flickr. I wanted to upload the full size versions here to have in my albums. Some of these I uploaded a long time ago in very small sizes and those old images in some cases taken 15 years ago are really showing their age on modern 4k screens. This one was taken back in 2010 with the Fuji HS10 which was an upgrade from the Fuji S7000 I had been shooting. In looking back through old photos I think that S7000 actually took better sharper shots.
Showing the characteristic gold 'glitter' which separates them from all-black toad tadpoles. I never realised that the 'glitter' on the 'eyebrows' was silver though!
Garden pond.
Blackdown Tableland National Park, Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia
Contact me on jono_dashper@hotmail.com for use of this image.
Location: Highlands of Pahang, Malaysia
Toxicity: Venomous
Distribution: Southern Thailand and Malay Peninsula
Wide-angle lens-testing mode
It was raining heavily last night! The rain makes this snake look so shinny and wet.
Just one snake and that was also a lucky break.
Specific epithet:
Named after the Latin adjective fucatus, that could be translated by “with make-up”. It was used in classical Latin language to describe the red and white hues harboured on their cheeks by actors of the ancient Latin theater, and was chosen here in allusion to the bicolor white and red postocular streak present in some males of this species.
The regal ringneck snake is my favorite snake species. They have an interesting natural history and beautiful colors and they spend most of their lives underground. The name of regal refers to their being the king or biggest of the ringneck snakes. Along with that size comes a different prey base. These snakes feed largely on other snakes and they have a toxic saliva that they chew into their prey after grabbing them by the neck. They are amazingly able to swallow prey that is their same size.
The first amphibian visitor to my pond. About half size, so probably one of last year's hatchlings from somewhere.