• Northern Water Snake Youngster in Cayuga NY Gorge

    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...

  • Up Close With the Giant Malagasy Leaf Tailed Gecko

    The Flattened but Prehensile Tail Relaxing on Tree Trunk Top of Head can be Beautifully Colored Depending on Light and Emotion Full Body View on Tree Uroplatus fimbriatus Skin Uplcose It Turned to Check out the Camera Lens The Lateral Body Fringe The Amazing Foot The Amazing Tail This...

  • NaturalistGuy’s Mystery Lucky 13- Slides into Position

    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...

  • NaturalistGuy’s Stealth Visit To AWESOME Reptile and Amphibian Show, 3/5/11 Albany NY!!

    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...

  • Stark Profile of the Brown Vine Snake, A Head of the Game

    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...

  • Eastern Hognose Snake Eggs, and Egg Hatching Series, 2006 Memories

    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...

  • Parrot Snake Face Off With NaturalistGuy!

    Parrot Snake! * Photo by Chuck Annicelli We were sitting at our table, the whole group, tired from the day and ready for our meal at this wonderful resort in the jungle.  Minutes after we sat down, someone had yelled “snake.”  By the time we got up  from the...

  • Absolutely Astounding VIDEO- Insect BATTLES True CHAMELEON!!!! (click on “watch on YouTube”)

    Jackson Tries to Tackle Large Mantis!! ARROW ABOVE WILL NOT WORK TO WATCH VIDEO PLEASE CLICK ON ARROW BELOW, then “WATCH ON YOUTUBE” Arrow is disabled.  Thank you!! Please Click On ARROW above then “Watch on YouTube” embedding is disabled on this video. ...

  • Amevia Lizards, Taste Testers of the Forest Floor

    Ameiva, Jungle Runner Ameiva leptophrys- most likely The Ameiva genus is wide spread from Mexico into South America.  From minute forms to lizards reaching up to a foot or more in length, they also come in a dazzling array of color patterns.  Some so emerald green on the dorsal...

  • A Feral LIZARD, With Awwwwe Factor 10, True Chameleon Success on Hawaii

    Young Jackson Chameleon Young Jackson Chameleon, female Adult Male Jacko In the early 70′s, the details will never be fully known, a reptile collector released a group of imported Jackson’s Chameleons, Chamaeleo jacksonii xantholophus from Kenya, Africa- to the Islands...


Barred Owl, Dead, Aprox. 7:15 pm March 13, 2011 Barred Owl, Dead, Aprox. 7:15 pm March 13, 2011 The Amazing Talons of the Barred Owl The AmazingThe Amazing Talons of the Barred Owl The Amazing Beak of the Barred Owl Our Facebook page has some “just after it happened” posts relating to this, but in content not much...


Barn Owl Stands Tall Barn Owl Barn Owl Kestrel Kestrel Eagle Owl Eagle Owl Eagle Owl It stayed overcast for the day, 3/12/10, despite some hope of higher temps and break through sun as we had heard from the always correct weatherman. The even turned to be WAY too crowded, probably from great promotion, and also from the fact...


Turkey Vulture Hunkered Down Turkey Vulture Notices its Being Watched Turkey Vulture Shrouded in Snow Even the Vultures Tail Wasn't Spared in this Storm Deciding the Photo Session was Over, the Vulture HOP/SHAKES Into the Woods! Sunday March 6 and Monday March 7, 2011 may not be our final word in Upstate NY as far as...


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...


Adult Female Black and Yellow Agriope (Garden Spider) Adult Female Black and Yellow Agriope (Garden Spider) Egg Case Suspended at Left inside Meadow Sweet Leaves Hatchlings Cluster Together Pattern on Dorsal Surface of Abdomen Ventral Dorsal This summer the wetlands behind our house held up to 20 adult female Black and Yellow...


Wild Indigo Dusky Wing Wild Indigo Dusky Wing A lot of brown butterflies go unnoticed when one is about in the field, not only because they are brown and maybe not as striking in color, but also because a lot of brown butterflies are FAST.  Among the butterflies families, many times a small brown butterfly that flits past you...


Cellar Spider Cellar Spider Cellar Spider With 20 inches or so outside my door, and more to come, and the temperature right now -2 F, in the last few days I have been continuing to key out the spiders that are living in and around the homes I visit.  This is met with some consternation of course, but often, I’ll hear “....


Black Knot of Cherry Black Knot of Cherry Beetle Larva in Black Knot of Cherry Black knot, Apiosporina morbosa of cherry and related trees (in this case on choke cherry).- is a fungal infection that causes lesions that look as if tar has been splashed on the branches.  These black knots- hence the name, are produced as the...


Zingiberaceae, an Ornamental Ginger Ginger Plantlets Can Arise from the Flower Ginger root is well known as a flavoring, and is even sugared and eaten whole candied.  Its also a staple, in a pickled form along side sushi, a must as it sits with wasabi in a little pile waiting to hit the palate with the unique smooth, flowery...


A Most Excellent Exallonyx A Most Excellent Exallonyx January 2, 2:00 am, 32 degrees F. wind was a blowin’.  It had been in the 20′s and single digits the former few days, and this little warm spell made me wonder if anything at all would be at my lights.  Crazy thought eh?, this time of night in mid winter. ...


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