A thread for all them big beautiful amphibians and reptiles you’ve seen while /out/. Snakes, frogs, turtles, lizards, and toads. I miss seeing frogs and toads. When I was a kid you could let ride your bike down the road without seeing dozens of pancaked toads on the road… it’s been decades since I’ve seen that now.This big bastard casually strolled through my lawn one morning so I captured it and let it go at the lake. I do not need any snappers hanging around.
>>2873283That should be >could not ride your bike.Hoping this guy post more turtles and froggers.
>>2873286Soft shell turtle that was sitting in the road. I slid him back iver to the bank of the pond.
>>2873327Another pond turtle.Was digging in the road like it was going to lay eggs. Sometimes they make fake nests to throw off predators.
The most recent Scarlet Snake I found.The scarlet are cool but the Scarlet Kinsnakes (Milksnakes) are absolutely breathtaking. Ive only found one and dont have pics of it on this phone.
>>2873330Was going through pics and found 5 bix turtles that I forgot about that didnt make it into the book yet.
lots of beautiful lizards here in arizonathere is a mountain named after this genus of lizards in the Chiricahua mountains
When we first got together the wife and I went to a cookout at my cousins and he was bragging about his pond but lamenting he had no turtles and made the off hand comment “you can’t just go grab turtles out of the lake anymore.” So on the way home I said “hey let’s stop at the lake and grab a turtle”. So we did. His name was George because I will hug him and squeeze him and love him and I will call him George. We let him go after about a year when we got a cat and he was getting too big for the container.Only blurry photo I have unfortunately.
Moved a pot and found this little garter the other day.
I found one more of the big snapper before I took it to the lake.
>>2873283I feel like being reincarnated as a turtle wouldn't be so bad. You'll live a long time and no one will hurt you and you can swim all day or just walk around.
>>2873347Turtle life is tough.Hes been hit by a car.
Dumpin some turts from last year.
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>>2873335I think this was a Dekay's Brown Snake.
>>2873389Fat Eastern Toad.I have dozens in the yard this year.Hognose is probably happy, this is their main diet.
Whats sad...I had a colony of hummingbirds.I tried counting one day on my porch and it was like 120 birds.It was insane.(I had about 30 feeders that year).Then a late season hurricane came through the gulf when they started migrating.Then another mid migration.Then another at the end.The next year it was lean but they were trying. 3 years building back.Then a hurricane direct shotted us.This year I have 1.A female.I hope to God im just on the edge of her range and she found a male next door or something
>>2873389Looks more like a rough brown snake to me, every dekays I've seen has more patterns and coloration.
>>2873475Bro put some sunscreen on.
>>2873476I was just a little flushed from the heat and humidity.Here's an example of a wonderful dekays from a few years ago.
>>2873390Little box turtle I found in the rain.
Anons how do I stop being scared by snakes. Ill see a snake on a hike and im always afraid its gonna bite me despite me knowing it almost definitely wont. Im in the Midwest so they're almost definitely garter snakes
>>2873476He's already getting enough poison from the goystraw.
>>2873487start jacking off to anthro snake porn to pavlov yourself into liking them. though this may bring forth a different issue.
i like when they have some green growin on em
>>2873487wtf do you expect it to do? chase you and leap at you? they dont do that they are cold blooded they dont have energy for that.i mean you should keep your distance but no reason to be scared. if you go in tall grass a lot you should probably wear gaiters but on the trail no reason to worry.
>>2873577People say water moccasins dont actually chase people.And theyre full of shit. They just havent experienced it.I was driving home one evening and saw a snake down at the pond. So I pulled over to ID it.I walked over with my phone in front of me trying to focus and the damn thing charged me, showing its cottonmouth.Im walking backwards, laughing my ass of at this thing.It would stop and id try to get closer in for a pic and it would rush me again.I never got a pic because between jumping back from being startled from this dumbass jumping at me and just laughing hysterically at this tiny shit chasing me down the road I totally lost focus on the camera.Oh ya- I forgot to mention that it was a juvenile and about 12" long.
>>2873577I got chased by a huge rat snake once, that was scary as fuck.
Caught this guy sunning himself the other day
>>2873592>People say water moccasins dont actually chase peopleAnd they’re correct. The snake wasn’t chasing you just because you misinterpreted the behaviour. There are snakes that will mock charge you, but that isn’t the same thing as chasing you and cottonmouths aren’t one of themt. caught probably 500 cottonmouths over the years
i spooked some kind of green rattlesnake the other day, their rattles are so much louder than i expected
>>2873837Some snakes will vibrate their tail in sand/leaf litter to mimick the sound of a rattlesnake.There are many locale variances of rattlesnakes but im unfamiliar with any that are actually green.I think he suckered you.
>>2873283I am backpacking thru Israel for the last 80 days i caught a tourist last week, i have seen a few snakes bitch dead and alive and many lizards as well as a frog
>>2873890>Israel>caught a tourist>many lizardsAll of this checks out.
>>2873837If it was super green it was probably a racer or something that was mimicking a rattlesnake. “Green” rattlesnakes like some of the Mojave colour forms are usually more of an olive or yellowish colour
>>2873592Funny how people can get videos of bears and tigers chasing them but can’t manage the same with a little cottonmouth
>>2873894A tortoise its a typo i was phone posting from an abandoned crusader castle, i saw a large agamid on it in the morning, here is a dor i found last week on the trail>>2873904I was once chased by a coachwhip i can't imagine any outher north American snake chasing some one
>>2873922You were probably between it and its burrow. Here’s a good clip of one being an assholehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dpvvMdmt1g
>>2873871>>2873903it was definitely a rattlesnake, i am in arizona and he had a diamond head. think it was a banded rock rattlesnake that was a bit olivey colored. it was on top of a rock so it could not have been moving leaves. I am also in range for mojave rattlesnakes but his stripes were darker
>>2873930Could of been, their probably one of my favorite snakes, got bit in the chin by one once, bent down to grab it and it reared up struck me before i could catch it, then i lost it in some tall grass, here is a saw scaled viper in cuaght last month
>>2873904>dude why didnt you just stick your phone in the face of that cottonmouth and record it chasing you and trying to bite you?!?!
>>2873979I have stuck my phone in the face of a cottonmouth. All they do is soiface at you. Even if one was to try its best to chase a person down you could pretty easily outpace it while walking backwards
>>2874072It’s like people who get hit by trains. >this was unavoidableSimply take a brisk step left.
>>2873940Could also have been a black tail? They get pretty green and can have darker stripes than picrel. They’re all too variable to really be sure though
>>2874072>I refuse to believe meoterites exist because there are no videos of them impacting the ground....
>>2874082There are videos of meteorites hitting the ground though. But the legendary cottonmouth chase? Nonehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diDj1aOWe7I&themeRefresh=1
>>2874116>first time its been recorded in history.>was last yearLol.What a fucking tool.
>>2874133And yet nobody can get one of a cottonmouth chasing a person even though they’re a lot more common than a fucking meteorite impact. And that’s not even considering all the other videos of meteors at low altitude
>>2874139So youre calling me a liar?
Oriental garden lizard - found while walking around the Ganges
>>2874358Frog somewhere near Mindo, Ecuador
>>2874359And other
>>2874360Water monitor - Sumatra, Indonesia
>>2874361Ameiva - Iquitos, peru
Reptiles are cool.....
>>2874370I wish this was a gif of that tortle walking.
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saw these lil niggas at work
