Lots of herps!

[Alli_Draggy]

We went out with some of the folks from the Tennessee Herpetological Conference yesterday in Middle TN. We found quite a bit-three northern water snakes (one quite young), two black racers, an Eastern Milk Snake, two very young queen snakes, a cricket frog, an upland chorus frog, a green frog, quite a few salamanders (dusky, long-tailed, and two lined), quite a few newts, and quite a few skinks (brown, broad-headed, and five lined) and a fence lizard.

Here are a few photo links-I didn't take these-Lisa Powers did. I took a bunch, but hers are much better.

 

[Alli_Draggy]

OK-fine then...here are some of the less great pictures I took, mostly of Alli holding snakes!

Racer 1

Black racer 2-this one bit her (and several other people ).

Beautiful Eastern Milk Snake

Northern Water Snake number 1

Little bitty Queen snake (estimated to be no more than 2-3 weeks old)

Cricket frog

Newt

 

[Alli_Draggy]

Really little Northern Water snakes (estimated to be about 3 weeks old)

 

[Tavia]

Great pictures! Thanks for sharing!

 

[HeavenHell]

I can't see the first four you posted but the others are very cool. The queen snake is a great find.

 

[clmerritt37211]

I didn't know it still met, I used to go quite frequently. Where & when does it meet?

 

[Alli_Draggy]

Follow them on FB. That seems to be where information gets posted most regularly. I'd been stalking their web page for over a year with no changes, and then when we went to JMIH this past summer, the APSU group suggested that we come to the TN conference-and said that it would be announced on FB. Sure enough, it was. I don't know if there's anything else regular besides the yearly conference, but it's a fun one.