I’ve just got home from Norfolk, VA
My family and I stayed at some friends who are posted there.
At a forest located not far away from their house, I was out fieldherping one day, first some habitat shots:
I saw a lot of small frogs, whom I couldn’t get to photograph because they jumped into the forest ponds they were staying at, and the water was completely black which made it impossible to see them, I only got the chance to species identificate one of them, an Acris gryllus, southern cricket frog.
In one of those forest ponds, something made me really happy! :
A big Nerodia e. erythrogaster, red bellied water snake! Beautiful snake, first time I’ve ever seen a snake from the Nerodia genus in real life. I caught the snake to get some close up, and spend about 1 and a half minute photographing it.
I flipped a few rocks near another pond, 4-5 Plethodon chlorobryonis, east atlantic slimy salamanders found. Some fast little salamanders! The salamanders in Denmark are extremely slow when moving on land, these could actually run!:
I flipped a large piece of wood laying in the sun, beneath that, I saw a group of small lizards running away, I managed to catch on of them, a small ground skink, Scincella lateralis.
The next day, the 23. of December, I came across the area again, and had a few minutes to search. It was very cold that day, but the sun was shining. I found another east atlantic slimy salamander beneath a piece of wood, a big beautiful one!:
That has to be the last herp I am going to find this year!
just for fun, heres the first herp I’ve found this year:
Rana temporaria, 14/3:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody!
May 2012 be a successful herping year!