Holy crap there are a lot of diamondbacks on Camp Blanding. Here’s number five in all its creepily awesome glory. (The white thing is a paper towel my teammate was trying to get it to strike at.)
And sort of in time for the Friday Ark, too!
snakes
Not an ID-a-day Photo: Florida Cottonmouth
Yikes. Has it been that long since I posted? I guess it has!
When I planned the ID-a-day project, I failed to take the weather into account. It rained all last week, and since my camera is not waterproof I left it in the truck most of the time. Thus, no new ID pictures.
But I did [...]
Another Diamondback
Rattlesnakes found so far this summer: 4 Eastern Diamondbacks and 1 Dusky Pygmy. Here’s Diamondback #4.
Snake!
I’ve been hoping to get a good shot of one all summer and I finally got a chance last week. It crawled past my foot, nearly giving me a heart attack, before retreating to the edge of a log to curl up and rattle and glare, but it never tried to strike.
Contrary to popular belief, not all flora and fauna here are out to get you.
I got to work on a prescribed burn Thursday, which was immensely fun and entertaining, but unfortunately that was the day I forgot my camera. So I have no photos of the 30-foot tower of flame I caused in the middle of the woods. Too bad, because it was awesome.
The Turtle People and the Temple of Doom
This was supposed to be last weekend’s photo post, but I was off frolicking in the Keys. So these photos are from week before last, when we found an abundance of the kind of creatures that you’d normally see in Indiana Jones movies.
This isn’t the sharpest photo ever, but here’s a spinybacked orb-weaver to start [...]
