austinb5516's Favorites

Separate observation for the roadrunner. The snake was beaten to death and eventually eaten whole, headfirst.

Playing Dead.

On a birding trip at Fort Huachuca, AZ in August, 1984 I caught a Black-tailed Rattlesnake. It was released after some photos.

Cal King taking down a small Southern Pacific. Prey or predator. Nature is awesome 😎

Flipped under huge cap rock

Banded California King Snake consuming a Gopher Snake

Eating Microtus californicus

Baby rattlesnake eating a western side-blotched lizard

Geovanny pointed this action out... lots of loud crunching going on here

Leucistic? The pigment in the ocular orbitals is making me hesitate on saying albino

Blue colored frog on Cow parsnip. I have never seen a blue one before.

Albino???

Thought it was a worm

King snake versus rattlesnake, photo 2!

One snake eating the other at Joshua Tree. Damn nature, you scary.

Juvenile, probably run over by a bike on a paved trail.

An aberrant morph juvenile C. Helleri.

Prettiest rosy I have ever seen. Found near my brothers house as a juvenile on Eldridge. Looked extreme hypo to albino when discovered. Picture taken at three years of age.

Wrapped around cultivated chicken egg

Eating a western fence lizard

San Diego alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata ssp. webbii) is on the lam. This snake species has been hunting lizards preying on flies visiting my Stapelia gigantea blossoms.

Prey item of a red tailed hawk. Partially eaten then shared with the two juveniles.
Associated with observation
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82583401

Eating a young bird, possibly a mockingbird.

Caught by a Red-tailed Hawk.

Western Coachwhip that showed up close to my water drip estimate snake close to 4 feet in length

Snake dinner to go or a sneaky snail escape?

Albino - female -

a locally celebrity for more than 10 years

Piebald White-tailed Deer

This looks to be an example of a hypomelanistic version of a red-bellied newt. I have not been able to see any documented observations like this!

Forwarded to me by a friend

Close up of rattlesnake in tree. Photos taken using iPhone SE attached to a spotting scope. Distant photo showing location of snake in tree.

Took pics and six minute video of Rosy burrowing and using snout to excavate rock and soil approximately ten inches deep. I saw the same Rosy five consecutive mornings at this location.

oh, and a N. water snake!

Very docile snake.

Rosy Boa on Isla Espiritu Santo. This species is not listed for the island in Grismer

Albino plethodon species, possibly Western Red-backed (Plethodon vehiculum) a common species in this area.

~50mm SVL
~45mm Tail Length
16 Costal Grooves (from what I can tell)

Defensive little fella

Small guy we named him Tod.We were having fireworks and he was hopping along and he found us!He stayed the whole time!

Please note that location and date are approximate.

The unbelievable amelanistic individual was found by Eli Bieri. Just about the coolest thing I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. No surprise that this has become my most favorited observation

Posible Geophis talamancae
Albina

Western fence lizard basking on a tree trunk. The lizard was covered in fungal spores, which gave it a yellow coloration.

Crazy patternless male Side-blotched Lizard (blue morph).

"Diamondless" aberrant individual, seen moving through property, and vanished into an armadillo burrow.

Appears to be some sort of "patternless" Pacific gopher snake