A Walk In The Woods....

[downsouth]

I went for a walk yesterday and managed to capture some pretty cool photos that I would like to share with you.

Cottonmouth (Water Moccasin):

Southern Cricket Frog:

Turtle:

 

[smurfyy_2k3]

we dont get wild life like that in the uk,
great pics

 

[stang1]

we dont get wild life like that in the uk,
great pics

Such a shame too.

Great pics though and thanks for sharing.

 

[smithrc]

tell you what - we're going out for a walk today... I'll take the camera and try and get some wildlife

this'll be funny...

A worm....
A beetle....
I might even be luck enough to get a goood piccy of a slug

 

[Synirr]

Lovely

 

[smithrc]

ended up walking by a canal... not quite the same as the woods...

So - what did I manage to get for you.... Not a lot (but we did have a pushchair and a dog in toe)

Some Coots (with babies) and some male Mallard Ducks.

We did see a tiny young rabbit - but I didnt have the camera out.

 

[downsouth]

ended up walking by a canal... not quite the same as the woods...

So - what did I manage to get for you.... Not a lot (but we did have a pushchair and a dog in toe)

Some Coots (with babies) and some male Mallard Ducks.

Cool pics, love the mallards.

 

[smithrc]

Cheers - They arnt exactly lizards and turtles though are they!

 

[Rhiannon]

We dont call it the woods here, its called the bush and its lots of gum trees and pine trees.

If your lucky you might see a kangaroo, or where I live you could see some deer, but other than that everything hides.

I would love to see some animals like that.

 

[rdd1952]

Great pictures. The snake looks more like a brown water snake than a cottonmouth though. Cottonmouths are generally black so when they open their mouth, it is a very stark contract of white mouth to black body. The dirty water may be he reason he looks brown though. It's hard to see his head too to see if he has the blunt head (poisonous) or the pointy one (non-poisonous).

 

[england]

those pics are great,,,,but as always you see a post from downsouth u know the pics are good keep up the good work..........

we do get amimals like that in england but you have to search for them

grass snakes
adders
smooth snakes
slow worms
sand lizard
common
newts great crested / smooth so on
common frog
toads/ naterjacks
deer / foxes / badgers / red squirrels / greys / birds a many<birds of prey

 

[Fighterfish]

Yeah. Quite right 'nelly'.
Around here including my garden we get some reptiles and more exotic wildlife etc.
I have seen in the past 2 weeks around Hertfordshire-
3 Red Kites
1 Barn Owl
2 tawny owls (in garden)
Numerous smooth and great crested newts (in garden)
Frogs ( in garden0
toads (in garden)
load sof grey squirells (they're everywhere)
3 foxes
and a load of badgers (in my friends field).
1 muntjaq (in firends field)
3 Kingfishers.
I will try and get some piccies.

See we can get some cool wildlife in the UK it's not just the yanks. But they are preety cool animals in the US.
nICE PICS sMITHrc.

 

[downsouth]

Great pictures. The snake looks more like a brown water snake than a cottonmouth though. Cottonmouths are generally black so when they open their mouth, it is a very stark contract of white mouth to black body. The dirty water may be he reason he looks brown though. It's hard to see his head too to see if he has the blunt head (poisonous) or the pointy one (non-poisonous).

This one is a cottonmouth, not a brown water snake. He was very aggressive and struck at the stick I used as protection when I got closer to him. I ended up getting the photos I wanted and backed off to let him continue his hunt for the many frogs in the area. Here is a closeup along with a closeup of a brown water snake I photographed last summer. You can see the distinct difference when looking at the heads of the two snakes. The water snake is also a juvenille. I am currently on the hunt for either a Timber Rattlesnake or an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake for some good photos, just don't tell my wife. She wasn't too happy about me getting this close to the Cottonmouth.

Cottonmouth:

Brown Water Snake:

 

[Synirr]

Cottonmouths can be a number of colours depending on what region they are from
Some are black, some are brown, and some even have a lovely black-and-brown pattern that they keep into adulthood.