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Pituophis catenifer affinis - Hudspeth Co., TX. This one was very large and had a stub tail. It also was very grumpy and refused to calm down.
Serpentarium Blankenberge
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Anhinga (a.k.a Snake Bird; Anhinga anhinga) - East Gator Creek Road, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Titusville, Florida
With the morning sun rising over the palms.
'Though you'll have to use the magnifying thingy to see that.
Ground Snake (Sonora semiannulata) - These brightly colored snakes are found across the desert southwest of the United States but are seldom seen because true to their common name, they spend most of their time in the ground. In spring they can be found under surface objects and very rarely on the crawl in daylight. Although they might look venomous these snakes are completely harmless to humans. They eat a variety of insects including spiders, scorpions and centipedes. This snake may get up to about 16 inches long but most like this one are very small at about 8 inches in length. My son and I found this one under a rock in southern Utah this past weekend. My son picked the rock he wanted me to look under and sure enough it had this snake under it. I looked under a couple of hundred other rocks with no more success. Some days I have found up to 40 of these snakes but it was a little early and cold for them to be on the surface yet. We let him go back under a rock after his little photo session.
Nikon Z7
FTZ Adapter
Nikon 60mm F2.8 ED macro lens
Natural light under cloudy skies.
I am continuing my trend of posting 3 photos of the same animal and soliciting feedback on which one you prefer. Thanks so much for the support by way of faves and comments. They are greatly appreciated.
I have a lot of catching up to do with my Flickr friends. I hope you are all staying healthy and safe from the Corona virus.
I heard this 6 ft snake meandering through some thick shrubbery before I was able to narrow down its location. Always an awesome thing to hear a snake moving along leaf litter, and know it's a snake, before you see it.
Southern NY.
I will continue on with the reptile theme with the green Parrot snake, don't worry they are harmless.
1dmkiv - 185mm - f5.6 - 1/400 - ISO1000 - Handheld
Sonoran Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon biscutatus lambda)
I have been on a quest to find and photograph all of Utah's reptile and amphibian subspecies for at least the last 16 years. One snake species has evaded me until now and that is the Western Lyre Snake. This very secretive snake spends almost its hole life in cracks, crevices, under rocks and in caves. It is completely nocturnal when it does decide to leave the comforts of its rocky dwellings which means searches for this snake are best conducted at night. Unlike most nocturnal snakes though these snakes don't seem to move much in Utah outside of breeding season and a little movement during monsoon season in August.
One of the main survey methods for finding nocturnal snakes is to drive roads through habitat at night when conditions are ideal for snakes to be moving in hopes of seeing one cross the road or sitting in the road thermoregulating. Unfortunately it seems that we don't have a lot of roads that these snakes have a need of crossing to get to food, water, mates or shelter as they are seldom found on the road here like they are in some other states. Other survey methods include looking for animals under rocks and in cracks and caves by day but despite lifting what must amount to thousands of pounds of rocks of various geologies over the last 16 years and looking in thousands of cracks I had not been able to find one of these snakes that way either. This leaves me with night hiking as close to the snakes habitat as possible on nights when I suspect the snakes might be moving. This past weekend seemed ideal to try night walking one of these snakes as the moon was becoming new there had been a ton of recent rain and a cold front would be forcing animals who had recently eaten to seek warmth to cook their meals.
I night hiked two different areas on Saturday and Sunday nights this past weekend. Saturday night was a blow out with only coyotes and owls heard around me as I scaled cliffs and boulders by flashlight in hopes of finding a Lyre snake. That night I got a very late start and it had been a bit cooler of a day so snake activity was not going to go too late into the night.. Sunday conditions were a little warmer and I got an earlier start but purposely didn't start till almost a couple of hours after dark. I hiked for at least 2 hours Sunday night looking in every creice and crack and scanning rock cliffs and boulders for the shapes of snakes scaling the rocks but none were seen. I was about ready to give up around 12:56 AM and had even resorted to photographing black widows which had come out of their hiding places into prominent locations in the rocks where I was poking around. I am not a spider lover so you know I am desperate or bored if I start photographing them. As I climbed down off of one very large rock outcrop and headed towards its base i spotted a small snake partially hiding under some sandstone flakes that had exfoliated off of the bigger rock face. This snake was boldly patterned with more contrast than you typically see in a Lyre snake and at first my brain did not register that it was in fact a baby Lyre snake which had probably recently shed its first skin. Baby snakes with blotchy patterns are almost always more vividly and contrastingly colored than their parents and this one was no exception. I really couldn't believe that the end of my snake species quest was laying on the ground before me. I decided to take some video of the event with my phone to capture my excitement and the snakes position as found before getting out my camera gear for a photo session. These snakes are protected and I have a limit of 30 minutes where I can photograph them and record data about them before needing to let them go. As you can imagine, I took hundreds of photos and lots of video of this brilliant snake. It was so amazing to finally see this secretive snake in the wild. I had seen some dead on roads before but those don't count. I had always wanted to find one in its habitat and was so elated that this night hike panned out.
These snakes have a fairly widespread population in Washington County Utah and southward into AZ and NV, California and New Mexico but their secretive nature makes understanding population densities in their habitat difficult. Hopefully i can continue to learn from successful finds like this and gain more understanding on how to more reliably find and document this species in Utah.
Delighted to have seen my first grass snake today. It was curled up on a mound of earth surrounded by long grass. I managed to get one shot before it slithered away into the grass.
Natrix natrix - grass snake. What a day for these beauties - big thanks to Cheryl for the find. Astonishingly beautiful creatures.
These little guys get their revenge after bing picked up. The bigger the snake the greater the stink it leaves on your hands.
Saw this snake head in the fire last night; or is it ET in trouble? Thought it was appropriate for some Saturday Silliness.
TAIR-11A (ТАИР-11А) 135mm f2.8
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Probably the highlight of our week in Dorset was spotting this tiny newborn smooth snake and 5 of it's siblings all very well hidden in the grass. Only the second time I've seen neonate Smooth snakes. so it was quite a treat..! Photographed in situ, under license and left undisturbed.
I found this garter snake sunning itself on the river bank today. It didn't seem to be afraid of me and let me get within 40 or 50 cm. There was a larger one - over a metre long - but it was more timid and I couldn't get nearly as close.
(looks better viewed large + on black)
This is a very young captive bred hognose snake.
When it feels threatened it flattens its neck out and looks similar to a cobra. It will rear up and strike at the perceived threat. It is non poisonous and basically bumps into what it is "attacking”.
If this doesn’t work it flops onto its back and plays dead. If you turn it right side up, it flops over again.
This animal will be on display at Rondeau Provincial Park throughout the summer.