A partial list of the herps and other wildlife encountered
by all of us during the weekend follows:

  • Yellow Rat Snake (6)
  • Black Racer Snake (6)
  • Eastern King Snake (5)
  • Rough Green Snake (3)
  • Eastern Ribbon Snake (1)
  • Banded Water Snake (2)
  • Redbelly Water Snake (1)
  • Eastern Mud Snake (1)
  • Copperhead (1)
  • Cottonmouths (8)
  • Canebrake Rattlesnake (1)

  • Ornate Chorus Frog (++)
  • Green Tree Frog (++)
  • Barking Tree Frog (++)
  • Southern Toad (++)

  • Alligators (4+)

  • Green Anole Lizard (++)
  • Eastern Glass Lizard (1)

  • Yellowbelly Sliders (2+)
  • Eastern Mud Turtle (1+)
  • Common Snapping Turtle (1+)
  • Yellowbelly Sliders (2+)
Some other special wildlife observed included:
Swallow-tail Kite, Mississippi Kite, Barred Owl, Turkey, Bobwhite Quail, Great Egret, Wood Stork, Red-cockaded Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-headed Woodpecker, Racoon, Weasel, Opossum, Coyote, Armadillo, and Deer.


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