Ellen and I ran out to Lake Martin again yesterday for a few hours before the playoffs started (Baltimore at Tennessee, early game and Arizona at Carolina later). The best surprise was a large female Western cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorous leucostoma that Ellen spotted. She put on quite a nice gaping display (below).
As expected, the warmer temperatures had more snakes out basking today, like this adult broad-banded watersnake, Nerodia fasciata confluens below:
Adults weren't the only ones out, as this nice specimen of a juvenile broad-banded would prove:
Again, there were many Northern cricket frogs, Acris crepitans out, showing off their remarkable diversity (below) and a nice-posing spring peeper, Pseudacris crucifer offered over 12 new shots for my collection (2 below cricket frog).
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