It only took me a month, but I finally saw my first wild alligator…
Category: General Wildlife
So these seem to be the most common ducks I’ve been seeing around here… I guess most other ducks are up north right now.
This first sign I photographed at a rest area along my drive to Florida (I can’t remember if it was in Georgia or Florida), but as soon as I saw it I got a little chuckle… (sorry, I should have gotten closer to make it…
Just a couple bird photos today…
I had originally planned on stopping at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge on my drive down. There is a wildlife drive there that I thought would be worth checking out, but apparently they are doing maintenance on most of the trails. I was able to…
On my drive to Florida, I stopped at a random state park (Colleton State Park in South Carolina to be precise) to take break and stretch my legs. I didn’t explore too much, but I did walk down to a spot that overlooked the Edisto…
I’m surprised I haven’t shared any photos of these lizards before. I am pretty sure they are Madagascar Three-Eyed Lizard (Chalarodon madagascariensis) and obviously get their name from that black spot on the back of their heads that look like a third eye. I remember…
This first shot, I got pretty close to this snake, pushing the minimum focusing distance of 3.2 feet on my Canon 100-400mm telephoto lens for this very nice close-up. Don’t worry – I had observed the snake for a long while before approaching this close,…
Today is another case where I had something else scheduled to go live, but I moved it to bump something up on the schedule. On Monday, I decided to head out specifically with two photographic subjects in mind… Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) and the NEOWISE…
A couple more of those Red-Spotted Newts (Notophthalmus v. viridescens).
Spotted (pun intended) these guys while out hiking on the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail… though with that bright orange color, they certainly stand out. Red-spotted Newts (Notophthalmus v. viridescens).
