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Found in hedge whilst dog walking.

A whole family of Joshuas. Not sure how they got there. Private property.

Omg she ATE (quail eggs!) 🤩💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻

Duplicated observation for the gopher snake :)

fence entanglement

with Humboldt State University herpetology class taught by Sharyn Marks

Newporter Pattern Morph

under a coverboard.

Habitat developed all around location and habitat "restoration" bulldozed the area for native plants killing this snake and many others like it.

Amazing snake rescued from a home. I’ve not seen this morph before. It’s called a Highway Morph.

King v rattler

Light colored Golden Brown Banded Morph.

A perfect banded. No half bands or y's. Not common.

Attacking Timber Rattlesnake.

Being attacked by Eastern Kingsnake

Found king snake eating a 6 or 7 day-old Inyo California Towhee nestling during permitted surveys.

Killed by electrified fence.

Observed eating fence lizard sp

W-Benin 2022

Preying upon a California kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae).

Newporter Morph, With tremendous Yellow.

kingsnake, longnose, helleri, and five blind snakes seen in about two hours of hiking.

Along railroad tracks, 2.8 miles east of Seeley.

Lampropeltis californiae
27 Jun 2015
CA, IMP Co., south end Salton Sea

Observer Comments: was seen swimming in the lake and then crawled into rocks. Size about 1.2 meters. Very likely an escaped pet, or possibly a stow-way. Was never captured.

My first king exhibiting the "blotched" phase. All individuals were left where they were found.

Delta Aberrant Morph

This Cane Toad found dead after apparently being attacked by Spotted Python, also found dead next to it.

Seen at Lopez Cyn at 3:03 pm

Snake eating a lizard. Small snake, maybe a foot long

Roadkill, being eaten by a kingsnake.

King snake eating a rattlesnake head first.

This is about the eastern king snake! I’ll be making another post to identify the snake that’s being eaten

Very unfortunate DOR, but it was interesting to see evidence of a coral snake eating a coral snake mimic. I will post a separate observation for the scarlet snake

king ate gopher and got hit probably

gopher:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84005987

king:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/84005986

Looks like a king snake was eating a (maybe) garter snake. Both were dead - they were right on the trail.

Very young bobcat kittens!

Captured western fence lizard that was too big to swallow

credit to my friend Bethany for finding this beast and a half

eating an unlucky gopher snake

Forwarded to me by a friend

Spotted with Bat-eared fox kill. The bird then crouched down on the ground in what looked like an attempt to hide. See: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7204117

Road fatality

Dor with emoryi coming out of stomach