Year of the Snake - No. 29 -38 - Rough Green, Queen & Watersnakes

Opheodrys aestivus

Regina septemvittata

We took a trip to visit our grandparents in Mississippi and our cousins in Tennessee. We found quite a bit.

No. 29 - Rough Green Snake
We found this snake after a very interesting hike at Noxubee Refuge. We had already seen an alligator, anole lizard, 20 toads, a mud turtle, a fence lizard and an unidentified skink.

Robert spotted this snake at eye-level in a bush after we walked past it. It looked completely like a vine. We picked him up and he didn't bite at all.

No. 30 - 33 - Queen Snake
We found several of these in a creek by our cousin's neighborhood in Nashville. On the first day I went out, I turned over a large flat rock and underneath was the Queen Snake and Northern Watersnake. I took them back to the house for photos and released them a few minutes later. When I went to release them, I also saw a big snapping turtle.

Nerodia sipedon will bite and hang on.

No. 34 - 38 - Northern Watersnakes

Unidentified salamander:
Let me know if you know which species this is. 

We found three of these at the same creek in Nashville. A couple were found under the same rocks as Queen Snakes. These are very agressive. When I picked one up, it latched onto my hand and held on. But they are probably some of my favorite snakes. I like their colors and habitat. And they bite, which makes them more exciting to catch.

We also saw several of these at Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary outside Nashville.

Other Reptiles:
These photos are from the Nashville Zoo and Mississippi Museam of Natural Science in Jackson.

Collared lizard at Nashville Zoo.
I like the blur of the lizard's movement.

Mexican tiger rat snake at the Nashville Zoo.

Eyelash viper at Nashville Zoo.

Crotalus atrox at Misssissippi Museum of Natural Science.