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A nice day snake hunting in Georgia!

MegF.

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Had a great day snake hunting! Final tally: 1 cooter, 1 mud turtle, 1 box turtle, 1 garter snake, 2 ratsnakes, 1/2 dozen banded watersnakes, a bazillion skinks, a Southern toad and a frog...score!
Cooter
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A frog I'm waiting identification on....wouldn't let you get remotely close without hopping off into the water like a rocket with a loud beep.
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A ginormous skink daddy!
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A cute young box turtle
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A cute baby mud turtle..about 4" long
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A Southern toad
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And the rest of them:
An anole
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A juvenile skink with a bit of blue left on his tail
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Some sliders on a log
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An in blue garter...he was quite pissed that I bothered him and when I picked him up musked, crapped and bit in true garter fashion!
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A pair of skinks...they's in love!
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A BIG ratsnake...probably over 5 ft...
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and one next to my 3'4" hook
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The other ratsnake...hiding in the bushes playing peek-a-boo!
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Banded watersnake on a tree limb....I was balancing on a tree trunk out in the middle of a deep stream near a small waterfall....finally found a way across the thing farther upstream and the bugger took off the minute I got near!
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When I was there yesterday I found this lovely little one...well...big one actually!
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Oh he was a pissy one! I pulled up some bark that was laying near an old trunk and there he was....flattened himself all out and when he started to take off I picked him up...he immediately crapped on me, musked and then bit me....poor guy in deep blue and I'm sure blind as a bat...I put the bark back over him and let him be....and then washed in the river :)
 
Awesome pictures! I love the toad and the little box turtle. That watersnake picture is also great, excellent positioning.

Sigh, nothing even close to this in the woods here in New York.
 
Great photos - thanks for sharing. Happy World Turtle Day :)
Your frog looks like a typical bullfrog (Rana/Lithobates catesbeiana) - cannot be exactly sure because we cannot see the size of the tympanum in the picture - there are other members of the family Ranidae that look very similar.
 
I don't know...I'll find out soon enough...I e-mailed Whit Gibbons to ask him. All I know is that they were very, very fast to jump in the water and they made a beep (loud and deep) when they jumped in the water...almost like a warning call. It took me a while to even spot them they were so fast to get in the water. I literally slowly crawled to get within 20 foot or so from this one and I was afraid to do too much while trying to get the picture...
I'll let everyone know as soon as I hear back...as usual Whit is out of the office!
 
The cool thing about this trip was I was figuring I was skunked as far as snakes and was heading back to where I had parked (about a 4 mile hike) when the skinks really starting coming out. I had also decided to hit up some stagnant water ponds down off the trail and was pulling up tree bark when I found the garter. So, at that point I was happy and just marching along the trail taking pictures of the skinks I could get to sit still. Came past a telephone pole and there was the big ol' scarred ratsnake. He was just frozen there and I got the photos and carefully laid my snake hook next to him for some size relevance. He even let me pet him a bit before he turned and headed down the side of the road. Okay...NOW I was really happy...BIG ratsnake, garter snake....then a few hundred yards later I spot the other ratsnake's nose peeking out. He allowed me to photograph him but when I tried to get him out of the bushes he booked it. When I got back to the parking lot, there were a couple of deputies looking down at the water with binocs. I asked them if there was anything interesting and they said yeah, watersnakes...Climbed down the side of a cliff to try to get closer but the water was too fast, too deep and no rocks to get there. More snakes farther up the stream as well. Finally found a spot to cross over and made it all the way to the one in the tree (the others had disappeared the minute I got within 50 ft. and the one in the tree hit the water the minute I brought my camera up. Got a few of him swimming but that was it. They are Fast! So, it turned out to be a snake bonanza! Can't wait to go back again...
 
What a great day! I'd love to see such a variety of herps in real life, but for now, thanks for sharing!
 
There were so many skinks out by about 10:30....the pair was a pretty cool find though and they both sat there for a while. Big, big boys! The box turtle was just cute...too cute!
 
That's pretty cool. Sometimes I get jealous as to how many reptiles reside outside of Western Washington State here.

We only have all different kinds of garters, yellow-bellied racers, a rare rubber boa (that you never see) and alligator lizards. That's literally it.
Makes for sparse herping sometimes.
 
Any herp you find in situ is a good day....we are fortunate to have so many species here though. A wondrous collection!
 
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