miguel camacho!
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well, heres my contribution for now, i dont get much time online, and i have trouble even finding access points down here.
ok, so ive kept plenty busy in the field. lots of gopher tortoises to keep track of, but the diamondbacks are more of a pain to track (seeing as they can tend to disappear from our radio devices within a matter of a few days). since my time online is limited, ill keep it down to what most people want....PICS! ill go ahead and say i failed to take pics of the DOR southern hognose i found, as well as the canebrake. i dont know if ill ever find another southern hog, but ill at least try to get a pic of the frozen remains in the future. but im sure there is plenty more to come in the future. so now to the pics.
first ill start with the stuff not within my research area, more so at the spot i used to snakehunt for my friend's research. a couple cool finds there:
2 eastern hognoses (one playing dead)
odd, i found a yellow slider that seemed to be trying to deposit eggs right next to the road. i tried not to bother her, even though it wouldnt have been the best spot, but she left anyway and left this odd impression
just one of my favorite snakes to find, the mud snake, this one actually found in habitat right near where i found one two years ago
cricket frog (very abundant)
carpenter frog (also very abundant)
banded water (never very photogenic)
yearling corn (which i seem to find so few of given their supposed abundance)
ok, now to my study area. first off, they had a prescribed burn recently. it came as i was trapping tortoises, luckily that monday the smoke blew in from the ga/fl wildfire and i asked about it, only then did i find out they were planning to burn our property, so i swiftly removed all traps. anyway, some before and after pics, followed by a pic of the fire in action
and some tortoises (clearer pics this time around). mostly adults are found, but also some juvies and this one yearling
broadhead skink outside my lab
narrowmouth
copperhead (this species acounts for 75%+ of what i find in road cruising)
racer
eastern box turtle
and last but not least, one of the EDBs we're tracking
hope you enjoy! see you again in another few weeks.
ok, so ive kept plenty busy in the field. lots of gopher tortoises to keep track of, but the diamondbacks are more of a pain to track (seeing as they can tend to disappear from our radio devices within a matter of a few days). since my time online is limited, ill keep it down to what most people want....PICS! ill go ahead and say i failed to take pics of the DOR southern hognose i found, as well as the canebrake. i dont know if ill ever find another southern hog, but ill at least try to get a pic of the frozen remains in the future. but im sure there is plenty more to come in the future. so now to the pics.
first ill start with the stuff not within my research area, more so at the spot i used to snakehunt for my friend's research. a couple cool finds there:
2 eastern hognoses (one playing dead)
odd, i found a yellow slider that seemed to be trying to deposit eggs right next to the road. i tried not to bother her, even though it wouldnt have been the best spot, but she left anyway and left this odd impression
just one of my favorite snakes to find, the mud snake, this one actually found in habitat right near where i found one two years ago
cricket frog (very abundant)
carpenter frog (also very abundant)
banded water (never very photogenic)
yearling corn (which i seem to find so few of given their supposed abundance)
ok, now to my study area. first off, they had a prescribed burn recently. it came as i was trapping tortoises, luckily that monday the smoke blew in from the ga/fl wildfire and i asked about it, only then did i find out they were planning to burn our property, so i swiftly removed all traps. anyway, some before and after pics, followed by a pic of the fire in action
and some tortoises (clearer pics this time around). mostly adults are found, but also some juvies and this one yearling
broadhead skink outside my lab
narrowmouth
copperhead (this species acounts for 75%+ of what i find in road cruising)
racer
eastern box turtle
and last but not least, one of the EDBs we're tracking
hope you enjoy! see you again in another few weeks.
