Brown Vine Snake (Oxybelis aeneus)
Here’s something to wake you up on a cold Monday morning! A Brown Vine Snake (Oxybelis aeneus) giving its threat posture to the photographer, RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser.
Read MoreGood Dog
Zach here is having a good laugh at the notion that dogs like him are native parts of our ecosystem! I mentioned keeping cats indoors last week, once again describing how much damage they can do to our environment and how much pain being exposed to nature can inflict upon them. The same goes for unsupervised and untrained dogs. No one needs to see a puppy chasing a squirrel into the street and getting hit by a car. Dogs that run through the woodlands in summer can crush nests and eggs, sniff out young birds to “play” with or kill, and pick up dozens of ticks while they do,...
Read MoreEastern Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum)
I love happy endings! Several weeks ago, one of our neighbors contacted me because she had seen a gorgeous Eastern Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum) near her bird feeders. She liked the snake, but liked her birds better and did not want to see her bird feeder become a snake feeder. I assured her that Milk Snakes are more likely to help her control the rodents in her yard than decimate her songbirds, but we agreed that if it would show up again I would come and get the snake and find it a new home. To my great surprise a few days ago I got a call from our front desk that somebody wanted to...
Read MoreRinged Snail Sucker (Sibon annulatus)
Here’s the Ringed Snail Sucker (Sibon annulatus), a species that could certainly blend in to its surroundings in a thick tropical rainforest. Photographed by RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser for the Meet Your Neighbours global biodiversity project in Costa Rica while on assignment for the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History.
Read MoreFer-de-Lance (Bothrops asper)
Death through the leaves, this Fer-de-Lance (Bothrops asper) was waiting river side on RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser’s last trip in Panama. He decided to head back down later to get some photos. Sean said this shot was kind of an accident while trying to find the right angle, but became his favorite.
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