Birds are cool Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 Over 5ft Rat Snake! I'm stoked that I was able to get pictures of this guy! Usually they slither off real quick. Probably 10+ lbs! 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 1 hour ago, Birds are cool said: Over 5ft Rat Snake! I'm stoked that I was able to get pictures of this guy! Usually they slither off real quick. Probably 10+ lbs! Dude, that is so awesome. I love holding big snakes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 23 hours ago, Kevin said: @Seanbirds, Could this be a Barking Frog? Taken in Uvalde county Texas. I'm not sure off the top of my head. Let me go see. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 21 hours ago, Seanbirds said: Sadly, I have seen way too many deer like this in my lifetime and it still gives me the heebie-jeebies to see so many ticks in such a small space. Makes me wish I could get them all off the poor thing, like I do for my cat. Me too! Sadly, there is no way to help unless you are an official in wildlife and then it could do more harm than good for them to try. I understand this has been a particularly bad season for ticks here. Funny things is it the first season since we moved here that I haven't come up with at least one on me. In Colorado it was rare to come up with a tick. In my whole life I only got one on the front range. I think maybe two in far north east Colorado. All as an older adult. I can say this is the first deer I have seen this way. I do remember a family trip to Kansas when I was 6 or 7 years old where the family dog of some relatives was covered with ticks all swollen huge like some of the ones in my pic above. Us kids tried to remove them but the adults just seemed resigned. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 Another photo from our recent swim with manatees in Citrus County, FL.: Sheepshead 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seattle Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 Northern Pacific Rattlesnake. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 On 6/8/2023 at 10:29 AM, Seanbirds said: I'm not sure off the top of my head. Let me go see. Thanks! Here is report it inat. It gives a more exact location if that helps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 8 minutes ago, Kevin said: Thanks! Here is report it inat. It gives a more exact location if that helps. No link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 1 hour ago, Seattle said: Northern Pacific Rattlesnake. Being close enough for a photo of one of these guys would give me the heebie jeebies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 1 hour ago, Kevin said: Thanks! Here is report it inat. It gives a more exact location if that helps. 1 hour ago, Birds are cool said: No link. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166078298 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 3 hours ago, Kevin said: Thanks! Here is report it inat. It gives a more exact location if that helps. *Does research thingies* Barking Frog confirmed! Nice find. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooldood Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestranger Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 MJ pointed out a mass hatching of tiny spiders on the back porch Tuesday morning before she went to work. After she left for work I slid into her chair and snapped a few pictures. The spiders had largely dispersed by the time I got the camera on them, but there were still plenty of them left, heading out in all directions. I estimate there were about 200 of them when I first sat down and MJ pointed them out to me. After taking these photos, I went back to my chair, shown in the third photo, and sat back down beside the remaining spiders and watched while the last of them disappeared. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 @Seanbirds, snake ID? I am thinking Smooth Earth Snake? https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166853218 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 4 minutes ago, Birds are cool said: @Seanbirds, snake ID? I am thinking Smooth Earth Snake? https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166853218 Did it have keeled scales or not? I can't tell with how much Whatbird reduces the photo quality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 10 minutes ago, Seanbirds said: Did it have keeled scales or not? I can't tell with how much Whatbird reduces the photo quality. No keeled scales. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 30 minutes ago, Birds are cool said: No keeled scales. Are you sure? Did you look closely? Not trying to say I doubt you or anything, but sometimes it's just really small and hard to see. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 1 hour ago, Seanbirds said: Are you sure? Did you look closely? Not trying to say I doubt you or anything, but sometimes it's just really small and hard to see. I am 95 percent sure it didn't have keeled scales. Somebody else on Inat agreed with Smooth Earthsnake. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 1 hour ago, Birds are cool said: I am 95 percent sure it didn't have keeled scales. Somebody else on Inat agreed with Smooth Earthsnake. All right then, so do I. They probably know way more than me on the subject anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelLong Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 Snowplant!! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted June 11 Share Posted June 11 4 hours ago, Seanbirds said: sometimes it's just really small and hard to see. I'll second to that! I thought keeled scales would be way more obvious than they are. On Green Snakes they are super tough 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 (edited) @Seanbirdswhat is this-Broad-headed Skink or Five-lined Skink? I had it as Broad-headed on iNat it was confirmed by two others but then one of them changed their mind to Five-lined. It had been research grade but now is not. It will take two more opinions now I think to get it back to research grade. I admit I'm not sure. Here is the link on iNat. If you would please render your opinion both here and on iNat I would be most grateful. Thanks! Edited June 13 by Clip 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 7 hours ago, Clip said: @Seanbirdswhat is this-Broad-headed Skink or Five-lined Skink? I had it as Broad-headed on iNat it was confirmed by two others but then one of them changed their mind to Five-lined. It had been research grade but now is not. It will take two more opinions now I think to get it back to research grade. I admit I'm not sure. Here is the link on iNat. If you would please render your opinion both here and on iNat I would be most grateful. Thanks! I see I forgot the link in iNat. Here it is: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/157095353#activity_identification_62a79561-a0fd-4f7b-83a0-fb71bbb780c9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 On 6/10/2023 at 7:06 PM, Kevin said: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166078298 Thanks! Also, I hate to beg, but if you'd please confirm it on inat I promise not to ask you again for a long, long, long time....at least till next week anyway.🙃 On 6/10/2023 at 9:15 PM, Seanbirds said: *Does research thingies* Barking Frog confirmed! Nice find. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted June 13 Share Posted June 13 17 minutes ago, Kevin said: Thanks! Also, I hate to beg, but if you'd please confirm it on inat I promise not to ask you again for a long, long, long time....at least till next week anyway.🙃 Yup, did it. Don't worry @Clip, I'll get on your skink too when I have a minute. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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