Spotted this week, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes

Mating and spring time--ride and tread carefully.

Photos by Sherm Stratton ad Dave Schaefer

Banded water snakes

(not poisonous)

photographed in the Reserve

by Art Smith

Yellow or eastern rat snake

Pantherophis alleghaniensis

Carlton Reserve

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Tiny grasshopper catches ride on softshell turtle as she goes ashore to lay eggs on the W. Powerline near the Myakka River 

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