Pics from the field

Spent a few hours in the field on Sunday

A common five-lined skink foraging.

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A Common Ribbonsnake basking.

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A common watersnake basking on a beaver lodge.

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A common watersnake in the surf.

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Eastern Snapping Turtles

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Green Frog

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Some non-herp pics:

Heard something at my feet, looked down and saw this Meadow Vole eating a snack and watching me.


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A male Red-winged Black Bird

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A female Red-winged Black Bird

Awesome pictures! Good eye on that ribbon snake. It blended in quite well.

Very neat!! How do you get so close without disturbing them?

He wears a disguise!

LOL amazing pictures. Only exciting thing I saw on my walk with the dogs yesterday was a Mallard Duck and 3 frogs jumping around.. the dog tried to eat all of them.

I want to go out to the field with you, you have the best luck in finding thing. great pictures.

Thanks all for the kind words. Most of the time my disguise is mud covered and smelling of snake musk.

Nick - I move slow and use long focal length lenses.

Steve - I've learned where some of the herp hot spots are in my area and try to hit those when taking pics.

Cool. I seen two of those pics on FB today on the VA Herp Societies page.