Tarantula - we saw a few of these
Texas Toad (lifer!) - was a little surprised to see this out - dry as a bone hitting over 100 during the day.
The next day we met up with everyone and hit up a spot ErikNM knew about for ribbon snakes:
Rio Grande River Cooter (lifer!)
cropped, but still difficult to see
Red-ear slider
Went hiking later that day after sleeping in the air conditioned motel and swimming in their pool.
Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail
Vermillion Flycathcher (lifer!)
Rio Grande Leopard Frog tadpole (lifer!)
Goldfinch
Fence Lizard
Desert Mule Deer
We went road cruising that night and ran into Bgorum and he had these:
Texas Banded Gecko
Ground Snake
The next day we drove home and we stopped in Roswell to check out the local zoo since it was free.
White-winged Dove
Texas Tortoise
Sulcutta
Red-ears and another, any guesses on the other?
I come across herps frequently while I'm working. (I do pest control). Usually it is just fence lizards, but every once in a while I come across these:
Sonoran Gopher Snake
On my wife's birthday, we went and hiked around some ponds and found these:
Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail looking for lunch
Texas Spiny Softshell
Woodhouse Toad metamorph - there were several of these hopping around
Red-ear
Tadpoles - any idea on the ID? I'm thinking woodhouse toad due to the metamorphs
Desert Grassland Whiptail
Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail with her lunch
Painted Turtle
American Bullfrog
For my birthday I wanted to go camping and find some critters not found in the region I live in. Unfortunately we did not have much time for camping, but I decided to try camping in the Magdalenas. I'd never been there and it is also the furthest north of the range of banded rock rattlesnakes. We went and spied out a ridge that looked promising and went to herping:
The chollas were in bloom!
gravid Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail
Tree Lizards - although, I have only found them on rocks
Blacktail shed
Crevice Spiny Lizard - one of my favorite lizards!
Another tree
"What are you looking at?"
Another crevice
another shed skin - fresh blacktail
No snakes, so we went roadcruising later that night and found these:
Prairie Rattlesnake
Painted Desert Glossy Snake - the biggest one I've found! probably around 4 foot!
Me and my birthday snake!
We found a few things road cruising as well:
Sonoran Gopher Snake
Couch's Spadefoot
Great Plains Toad
another Glossy
We help do surveys on the Sandia reservation north of Albuquerque and here are some of the things we have seen this year:
New Mexico Whiptail
Gravid Collared Lizard
Huge male Collared Lizard
Ground squirrel
Side-blotched
Collared
Roundtail Horned Lizard
Male Side-blotched
Great Plains Skink
Hatchling Side-blotched
Last weekend we went for a road trip to Sierra County with Bgorum. See his post here: [url]http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1003[/url] We found this guy on the way down:
Texas Horned Lizard
We spotted this storm on the way down and got excited:
Juvie Great Plains Skink
We found a creek bed and found some pools with these in them:
Plains Leopard Frog tadpole
adult
We found this on the way out of the canyon:
Desert Box Turtle
Millipede
We started to cruise when it got dark:
Vinegaroon
Sonoran Gopher Snake
Texas Night Snake
We ran into a herper named Keith and he was kind enough to let us photograph this:
Chihuahuan Lyre Snake
Couch's Spadefoot
another night
Well, that catches me up to date!
Josh
