Identificaciones de brian

Long shot, taken with a cheap camera in poor light....that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
This is the Dark-sided Salamander (Eurycea longicauda melanopleura)

First Cottonmouth I’ve seen on Elk river!

Seemed to be eating something

Recently emerged? Next to small turtle-sized hole.

Roadkilled on Hwy 185.

Roadkilled on Hwy 185.

Found under a piece of tin.

Rana sylvatica (I believe), at the edge of a pond.

Northern Maidenhair Ferns (Adiantum pedatum) on a wooded hillside in Big Sugar Creek State Park east of Pineville, Missouri.

Northern Maidenhair Ferns (Adiantum pedatum) on a wooded hillside in Big Sugar Creek State Park east of Pineville, Missouri.

~3ft adult, caught crossing a road around noon.

Found crawling across the street.

Crossing a gravel road.

Found under a piece of tin.

On a log, in a small pond.

In the back yard fish pond.