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These are old--about 2 years. Taken with a Kodak point and shoot. From a herping trip in south Texas with college class I took.

Indigo swimming--the snake was about 5'. We found tons of indigos on this trip, oddly enough. I thought I was in heaven

Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake--I'd stopped to pee on a deserted stretch of road and there he was. Thank god I had a camera!

Salamander!! Neotenes This trip was the first time I found them in the wild. There were tons of these guys in a very narrow stream branching off a river.

Hope this works.

Here's some more. I'm trying not to overload one post with lots of shots.
Tubing a diamondback--I'm not the guy in the photo, but I did cut out his face.

A horned lizard on a crawdad mound....WTH?? Bad drought that year.

Rosebelly

Sirens!! Sedging in a seasonal pond turned them up. They're bigger than they look in that photo. Easily a highlight up the trip for me, up there with the indigo. I'd put the one in the photo at ~2', there was another, unpictured that was smaller.

Neroida, I don't know what species (if you do, let me know!) I was trying to get a shot of an anole and almost stepped on the poor guy.

Where in Texas where all these taken? They can't have been in the same area since I can't imagine where you would find indigos, neotenic salamanders, and broad-banded watersnakes.

That siren is awesome. Is that one of the south Texas ones (far south Texas) that people argue might be a separate species?
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

They range from Uvalde County down to Brownsville One week long herping extravaganza (also birds, and we narrowly missed an ocelot--ran into a F&W guy who'd seen one the day before we got there and had photos of it).
And yeah the siren was one of the "open for debate" ones, which is why I didn't tag it with a species. I think those and the indigo tied for trip highlight for me

the salamanders were actually in a stream branching off that big river the indigo was in--we found them the same day. Euryecea neotenes was the species I think

I really like the shot of the snake swimming, a close up would be nice.
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