Northern Water Snake Youngster Northern Water Snake Youngster Northern Water Snake Skin Pattern Hiking in the ravine, up to Taughannock Falls, near Cayuga Lake, NY- we were surprised by the yell of “SNAKE!” Just as surprised to see in the running ice cold waters of the river, a 1 year old or so Norther Water Snake...
Mystery 13 Northern Racer Eating Eastern Garter Snake Northern Racer Eating Eastern Garter Snake Northern Racer Fans, Friends- Any guesses?  Hint, some might have thought spaghetti would have been easier. Mystery 13, what the heck was that?? Okay, I guess this was lucky 13 or something like that. I have a new mystery photo...
NG Sneaking Into Event Little Girl With Corn Snake Corn Snake E. Hognose Combo Corn Snake above, E. Hognose Snake Below, Shapes of Adaptation Eastern King Snake European Legless Lizard Blood Python Rainbow Boa My Daughter Celia, Hidden Behind a Clown Nose, Teaching a Young Man About Snakes Black and White Tegu Lizard Pure Wonder Blue...
The Brown Vine Snake In Costa Rica there are two pointy snouted Vine Snakes you may come across. One is mostly green and very cryptic on open foilage, Oxybelis fulgida. This beauty however is the Brown Vine Snake, Oxybelis aeneus which is nearly invisible on the brown branches of so many vines in the jungle.  Finding this...
Female Eastern Hognose with Eggs A First Breath Into Our World!! An Aberrant Baby E. Hognose Rest Before the Next Move Recently Layed Eggs, Embryos Can Be Seen Right Away Late Stage Eggs, Dark and Swollen, Days Away from Hatching I’ve been watching this species of snake in the wild for a long time (favorite all time snake...
Eastern Milksnake! Eastern Milksnake! Eastern Milksnake! Eastern Milksnake! Eastern Milksnake! October 26, 2010: Serpentine Dispatch, Upstate NY. Had a feeling I’d see something nice today, it was 73 degrees F, at 3:00 pm in Saratoga, so I cruised over to a snake den to see if any black racers, Coluber constrictor...
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E. Hognose Eating Roadkill E. Hognose Fangs Yes my favorite snake species. An eastern hognose snake, Heterodon platirhinos feeds on an adult road-kill female green frog carcass collected on a warm night. A unique N.A. snake, a Xenodontid, with rear fangs- here we can see TWO fangs on one side. This may show a new fang emerging...
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NG with Costa Rican Boa constrictor NG with Costa Rican Boa constrictor The Boa's Beautiful Mug! We had litterly been off the boat for about 2 minutes, when one of the porters yelled “culebra!! (SNAKE en Espanol)!!” and I saw running- humans- with machetes rambling down the hill. I was shaking hands with the...
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Blunt Headed Tree Snake Blunt Headed Tree Snake Blunt Headed Tree Snake Blunt Headed Tree Snake I’ve made 9 trips to the Osa Peninsula, of Costa Rica, that magical outback land of primary Pacific coastal rainforest running to the ocean, cradling the Golfe Duce (Sweet Gulf) and changing the lives of many a gringo. Two...
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Mangrove Cat-eye Snake Mangrove Cat-eye Snake Mangrove Cat-eye Snake How many times have you seen, or heard from Westerns or other movies- “shake out your shoes or boots” in the desert and the tropics before you put them back on! Well, its a staple of Americana, and memorialized in Toy Story, where Woody yells something...
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