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so I have finally settled into my new place in NC rural 20 mins from the coast here is a little of what I've found within walking distance as of lately.

I like snakes so we will do snakes first in no particular order

some racers fairly sure they are northern black racers
(coluber c constrictor)

yellow rat intergrade
(elaphe o obsoleta X elaphe o quadrivattata)

cotton mouth
(agkistrodon piscivorus)

and a bummer as it's on my main target list and was found about 20 yards down the road from my mail box

mole kingsnake (DOR)
(lampropeltis calligaster rhombomaculata)

that covers the snakes now a few lizards ive seen

anole
(anolis carolinensis)

six lined racerunner
(cnemidophorus sexlineatus) I know it was changed...

this south eastern 5 lined skink was catching some rays on my back porch
(eumeces inexpectatus)

ground skinks are everywhere
(scincella lateralis)

Iv'e seen a few turtles in a ditch in the woods by my house

yellow belly slider
(trachemys s scripta)

found this spotted turtle in a spot as I was looking and thinking this is clemmys habitat
(clemmys guttata)

found this lil eastern mud turtle
(kinosternon subrubrum)

saw a few eastern box turtles none were too cooperative
(terrapene carolina)

saw only one species of salamander and it's not to exciting atlantic coast slimy salamander
(plethodon chlorobryonis)

now for some frogs and toads

walking along a small ditch I saw TMTC southern cricket frogs as I looked at them I was amazed at the color diversity of them within 5 mins I saw a red, tan,green and yellowish one pics of all but the yellowish one were taken
(acris gryllus)

red

tan

green

sorry to bore you but hey it's all new to me southern leopard frog
(rana sphenocephala)

doing a little yard work I found this southern toad
(bufo terrestris)

almost done, found this eastern narrow mouth toad under a couch (in the woods)
(gastrophryne carolinensis)

saw, heard not photod were
5 lined skink almost all I've seen are south easterns here
green tree frog (just found it by my outside light)
barking tree frogs
squirrel tree frog

wayne

Great pics! I love that cotton mouth shot. The eastern boxies are sweet too

Dan

I was just down in that area. There are pics of what I found if you go down this page. I found cotton mouths to but I thought they were Water Moc. Thats what a turtle guy gets for trying to identify snakes. lol. P.M. me wayne and I will tell you where I was, it was a great area. Beautiful pics.
Tom

lol cottons and water moccasins are the same. i just like calling the cottons. I still havent seen any large ones.
wayne

ya the cotton mouth is my fav shot out of all of them. I wish I would have waited for the box turtles to open up but was being ate alive by bugs.

Lovely, thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the box turtle pictures
Foot Hill Reptiles

Awesome! Too bad about the Mole King, though.
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Diego

to live in a county with such herp diversity. I work in Jacksonville, New Bern, and Morehead City about one week out of every month, so I frequent the area. Good stuff down that way! In less than 20 hours in the field, I have found 13 different species of snakes in the area within 50 miles of Jacksonville.

Have you found any corns from the area yet? The ones I've seen from there are very "Okeetee-like".

Here's a live mole from early April.

Thanks,
Michael

next time your around jacksonville we should get together. nice mole king, 15 diff species is good so far since I've been here I'd say I'm at like 6 lol.
wayne

is all in the timing...I was there last week for 5 days and never even bothered to go out. It was 82 degrees at 6am on Monday...crazy... I did manage to see a corn, cottonmouth, and banded water DOR while just driving around.

Shoot me an email...mcoone@hotmail.com...we can talk more. I'm working in New Bern in late August again and maybe we could get together then.

Thanks,
Michael

Ahh, at least some one is finding snakes here!! I am WAY behind the power curve this year! I did call in the DOR gator on US17 this week. Sad.
- I will call you when I get more that 5 min of time to go out looking for critters. This will be after the new kid can lift his head (and talk and hold snake bags and hooks...)
-Blue