By the entrance to the tunnel to duck pond
Neonate, maybe a couple weeks old. Slow on cold rocks on a cool morning. Glad to see a new generation.
The story as I remember it on this one. Someone sent me a text saying they found this snake and had it in a bucket but wanted me to ID it. They "tossed a lizard in with it". I got there later and looked in the bucket under something they had and it was eating the ground skink. Kind of freaked me out when I saw it for two reasons, they had a protected species in a bucket which is a no no and the fact that it was eating a skink. Any website you go to at this point only listed crowned snakes as their food source. Since this pic you see more than just snakes listed. I caught a lot of hell for this pic I took and encouraged the home owner to release it back where he found it after it finished eating
Carex abscondita in bloom.
leopard or pickerel frog eggs? compared to fieldherpforum
Fish found in lower reservoir at Mine Kill State Park
Caught by my friend in the lower reservoir. He caught it during low tides at the reservoir.
A known population of this species that has apparently failed to spread outside of this marshy area.
Collected as part of an official research survey for this species. This individual had been initially tagged and stocked into Allegheny Reservoir 5 years prior, and at some point went over the reservoir's dam and swam back up into this nearby tributary of the Allegheny River.
Grotto sculpin, Cottus specus
Found in a cave.
Spotted Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus conanti), Monroe County, Tennessee
sandstone barrens - one with an especially long bract
germinated from seed bank after 2018 burn - sandstone barrens
Seems to be rapidly declining - just found a few this year after dozens last year (presumably germinating from seedbank from 2018 fire)