Chipmunk/garter snake face off!
red-tailed hawk was fighting with the snake, you can see it wrapped around the bird and on the ground below it.
Blotch pattern and coloration on snake wrapped around hawk leads me to say Milksnake.
Sighting and photos (c) surfap.
Field Notes - 5 Arafura File Snakes having a romantic moment. I counted two female and three males.
Rescued. The swallow has been attracted by a small rodent found in the can (probably attracted itself by the Orange juice !). It was not able to retract its head from this trap, though it was able to slip its whole body inside !
A Jamaican Boa observed in a cave Swallow nest in the mouth of the cave. The swallow nest was located in a bell hole
Black King Snake eating a Garter Snake
In situ. This is the best photo I have of a proud, protective mother "Hyde County Red" Pigmy Rattlesnake and her 10 - 15 day-old young. I regularly encountered this female while searching for reptiles in an area locally called "Buzzard's Roost" (nowhere near the actual place, incidentally) about 10 miles from my home in Fairfield. The site was on private land - a seasonally-filled, 2 acre duck impoundment surrounded on 3 sides by Bald Cypress wetland, and adjacent to Lake Matta-mosquito (local joke!) NWR. This particular location had an incredibly abundant population of S. miliarius - on one day with perfect weather conditions here, I observed 14 individuals of this species of all growth stages in less than two hours! I grew especially "attached" to the female pictured, as she was reliably found in the vicinity of her "favorite" stump, and I enjoyed witnessing her feeding, frequently basking, and entertaining the attentions of a large (for this species) male in mid-Spring - involving courtship and "mate-guarding" behaviors. I was deeply saddened to revisit this site 4 years after this photo was taken, to find the entire area had been completely devastated by clear-cutting for the pulp lumber industry, right up to the Refuge boundary line - and without a Pigmy to be found, despite an intensive search on my part at a perfect time of year. Apparently, the NCFWS designation of "Special Concern" wasn't actually a "concern" at all. Clear-cutting of sensitive habitat, and roadkill mortality are the most serious issues facing the herpetofauna of North Carolina, back then, through today - and most likely into its future, as well.
Being eaten by Coluber constrictor
Observation of mobbing behaviour published at: https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/04/sbr2016-042-045.pdf
Orlando Wetlands Park, Orange County, FL, April 2018.
Being scavenged by a Carabid beetle. I've still never seen this species alive.
Cyanocitta cristata harassing Pantherophis alleghaniensis. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA.
There were at least half a dozen blue jays raising a ruckus high up in the trees. I had no idea what it was all about until I reviewed the pictures and saw the snake slithering through the branches. The jays must have been trying to protect nearby nests from the predator.
This photo was taken 11 years ago. She should almost be done digesting that meal hahaha. This lacks professionalism...
Great Blue Heron: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/10248122
Tantilla cucullata predating scolopendra heros
Expedition durch unbekanntes Gebiet auf Halmahera um den vulkan Ibu bis zur Ostküste.
Strange specimen I discovered and collected with two metasomas.
I've kept her since May 2021 and she's still alive and well in her enclosure.
found dead
1 juvenile eating Hyla intermedia
Torrey Pines Rattle snake eating a mouse
Found this guy half levitating over a stream, and then saw the mouse close by. Watched him eat.
Eating a southern pacific rattlesnake. 9 photos. FYI: we did come back the same direction 30 minutes later and saw the same snake (full belly) on a patch of asphalt about 10 yards from where we first saw it, as if giving itself belly heat (air temps were still around 80 degrees). Due to some comments received about regurge, I also went back in the daylight the next day, and checked the area and did not find a regurged rattler. I believe the king kept it down.
Catching bats at the mouth of a cave.
Observation for the bat here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/191896678
video footage on youtube
I was a witness of this unbelievable "show" right under my tent shelter... I chose some pics
An odd surprise, both animals were dead and the spider's fangs were piercing the tongue of the gecko. The reptile probably attacked the spider, which defended itself with a bite. More here (in portuguese): https://www.insetologia.com.br/2015/01/lagartixa-e-aranha-em-sao-paulo.html
Uma surpresa estranha, ambos os animais estavam mortos e as presas da aranha estavam perfurando a língua da lagartixa. O réptil provavelmente atacou a aranha, que se defendeu com uma mordida. Mais aqui: https://www.insetologia.com.br/2015/01/lagartixa-e-aranha-em-sao-paulo.html
Leucistic? The pigment in the ocular orbitals is making me hesitate on saying albino
I saw a horned lizard under a bush and was about to take a voucher shot when my daughter points and yells Leopard Lizard. The leopard lizard was stalking the horned lizard and we watched it run up and try to figure out how to eat it but the horned lizard kept turning and tipping body to look bigger. Eventually the leopard lizard gave up and they went separate ways as seen in first pic. Such a cool observation.
The specific epithet manadotuaensis refers to the little volcanic island of Manado Tua, the type locality and only known distribution of the new species.
This individual was the Holotype for the species.