Spent the last few days over on Tiber Reservoir fishing - got to see all kinds of small critters this trip!
Momma Hawk - anyone know what species?
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4 Hawk chicks - heatwaves didn't allow for a good pic!
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Yellow, Black and Orange Snake - anyone know what kind?
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Black Headed Gull - 1st time ever seeing one!
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Silhouette Meadowlake singing
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Long Billed Curlews
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JR45
Loc: Montgomery County, TX
It's a class of garter snake.
I believe the snake is a plains garter snake. Google the images and see if they don't match up.
You are having a GOOD retirement, Cindy!
JR45 wrote:
It's a class of garter snake.
Thanks....that's what I thought but wasn't sure.
NMGal wrote:
Great series.
Thank you! So glad you like them.
UTMike wrote:
You are having a GOOD retirement, Cindy!
...oh ya! We are having a blast!
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CindyHouk wrote:
Spent the last few days over on Tiber Reservoir fishing - got to see all kinds of small critters this trip!
The snake is one of the garter snake species. These common, generally innocuous snakes were considered totally harmless and non-venomous until only recently when it was discovered that they do, indeed, possess a venom that they use to immobilize their mostly cold-blooded prey (frogs, toads, salamanders, slugs, and occasional supplemented with the occasional mouse and shrew). They have no fangs and the venom (toxic saliva) gains entry into the prey via the punctures of the snakes many numerous and sharp teeth as it “chews” on the prey in its grasp. There are now a number of confirmed reports of envenomation of humans who have been bitten by garter snakes and been slow in disengaging the persistently chewing snake.
Who knew? As kid I was fascinated with snakes had a collection of some I had caught, and was bitten many times by garter snakes ..but, pain wimp that I was, the biting and chewing was always quickly interrupted!
...andthat hawk is a red-tailed hawk.
Dave
Uuglypher wrote:
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The snake is one of the garter snake species. These common, generally innocuous snakes were considered totally harmless and non-venomous until only recently when it was discovered that they do, indeed, possess a venom that they use to immobilize their mostly cold-blooded prey (frogs, toads, salamanders, slugs, and occasional supplemented with the occasional mouse and shrew). They have no fangs and the venom (toxic saliva) gains entry into the prey via the punctures of the snakes many numerous and sharp teeth as it “chews” on the prey in its grasp. There are now a number of confirmed reports of envenomation of humans who have been bitten by garter snakes and been slow in disengaging the persistently chewing snake.
Who knew? As kid I was fascinated with snakes had a collection of some I had caught, and was bitten many times by garter snakes ..but, pain wimp that I was, the biting and chewing was always quickly interrupted!
...andthat hawk is a red-tailed hawk.
Dave
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Thanks Dave....I grew up in PA & we used to go around and try and find/catch the garter snakes but they were always black or grey in color....never this colorful. And yes I have been bitten by them before. Thanks also for the species of hawk.
I'm a city boy and I thought the birds were Snipes.
Bigmike1
Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
Nice images. I agree that the snake is a garter snake, non poisonous. Eats rats and such.
Beautiful pictures, the snake isn't poisonous. Some kind of garter.
Nice job on the pictures Cindy.I believe that the black-headed gulls are actually Franklin's gulls.Franklin's gulls have black legs and the black-headed legs are pink.There's also more black on the Franklin's gull.
Randy
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