Snakes on Stuff
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Anhingas are nicknamed "snake bird" due to their habit of surfacing after a dive with only their long neck and beak exposed, appearing very snake-like in the water. On Horsepen Bayou they are quite skittish and rarely linger on a perch when paddlers approach but this bird held her ground (well, stump) as I was passing and only reluctantly crossed a narrow channel to another nearby branch.
We found this Northern Water Snake basking on a warm rock during our walk in a local park near KC. I think the bright red spot on the snake is some kind of mite, maybe a clover mite. I'm neither well versed in snake ID's nor tiny red bug ID's so I welcome corrections on either or both.
Second in my random series.
Snaking through the multiple curves east of Summit, Montana, a Burlington Northern Santa Fe grain train traverses Marias Pass on September 9, 1999. Up front is an eclectic group of motive power led by BNSF warbonnet GE C44-9W No. 781. Trailing the 781 is a former Santa Fe LRCX C30-7, a Burlington Northern C30-7, a Santa Fe EMD SD45-2B, and finally, another Dash 9 in Heritage II paint.
A lovely morning to be at Oxbow Bend in Wyoming ... and making sure you were looking in all directions. The sky was quite pretty looking east, south and west.
A close encounter of the herpetological kind!
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
17 June 2023.
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☞ This critter was probably as startled by us as we were of him. I pulled Charlie the dog back to safety after he rooted it out of the foliage. Not being a herpetologist, I was concerned it might be a venomous eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix) snake. Or maybe it was a harmless common watersnake (Nerodia sipedon). [See comments below.]
☞ Apologies for the top-down look—I wasn't sanguine about getting to eye level!— and for the motion blur —the snake was slithering away and I needed to shoot quickly without adjusting camera settings.
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On the bank of Grimm's Ditch, the ancient earthwork that runs through Barnes's Grove, the trees seem to have fun on the slopes. I was quite taken by this curvy specimen snaking its way through life.
These are common snakes, but I always like seeing them. I found this one on a recent trip to visit my aunt and uncle on their farm in eastern South Dakota, warming itself in a patch of sun on a cool September morning. (Thamnophis radix)
I don't want to overdo things with the snakes but we really only see them like this once a year when they leave their dens and mate before spending the summer in their home ranges. They can be seen returning to their dens in the Autumn but not in this posture...Western wandering garter snakes (Thamnophis elegans vagrans). Photo by Frank
Tuatara at the Zealandia urban ecosanctuary in Wellington, New Zealand
Entered in TMI’s January 2023 challenge
Those Amazing Animals ... Dinosaur Imposters
Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) are reptiles endemic to New Zealand. Despite their close resemblance to lizards, they are part of a distinct lineage, the order Rhynchocephalia. The name tuatara is derived from the Māori language and means "peaks on the back". The single extant species of tuatara is the only surviving member of its order. Rhynchocephalians originated during the Triassic (~250 million years ago), reached worldwide distribution and peak diversity during the Jurassic and, with the exception of tuatara, were extinct by 60 million years ago. Their closest living relatives are squamates (lizards and snakes). For this reason, tuatara are of interest in the study of the evolution of lizards and snakes, and for the reconstruction of the appearance and habits of the earliest diapsids, a group of amniote tetrapods that also includes dinosaurs (including birds) and crocodilians. – Wikipedia
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I had an excellent Fall walk at Maywood Environmental Center this morning. It was a sunny, crisp day -excellent for a woodland stroll.
Natrix helvetica (Hopefully I identified it correctly)
We were crossing the river when suddenly we saw this snake hating for fis. All of a sudden it caught one.