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Not all ring-necked snakes have a ring on their neck.

Magical golden one. Our ticket to the lizard factory?

Observed by Emmett Partland
Found in swimming pool

Stowaway from a shipment of tropical plants; not naturally occurring in the area.

Was thinking this was the Western yellow-bellied racer but the belly is not yellow...perhaps a juvenile? Scales underneath looked like light blues and pinks.

Found in the wild in a rural area.

Missing a significant part of its posterior end, poor thing. Managed to crawl off into the bushes.

Eating a rattlesnake

Is it sticking its tongue out at me?

Found dead on the side of a logging road.

A little confused because we have seen several coral snakes in the yard but the banding pattern here does not show clear red bands although there is some on the underside.

Had a full length extra tail and another one partially grown (trifurcation). Found brumating under a wooden board

Climbing on a Madrone tree

Se encontró al animal debajo de una piedra, este tenia un nivel de opacado iridescente semejante a aquel demostrado por los escamosos antes de una muda.

Probably a melanistic one. The tongue was black. I couldn’t get a great look at the belly but it seemed orange-red. It was very fast in getting away from me as I attempted to take a photo!

California Red-sided Gartersnake or a San Francisco Gartersnake

Surprising find in a slough within the stagnant marsh. Not a species I recognize from this watershed! A carp, perhaps?

In the same debris pile as a False Tarantula. Snake appeared to be about to shed. I did not pick it up.

Eastern Kingsnake

king snake crushing a fence lizard on Bayview Trail by SF Bay in Coyote Hills Regional Park midday 2021 May 28

On Half Moon Bay Pelagic Trip. Rough GPS cords. based on eBird checklist and the time of the photo.

Feeding on recently deceased Canadian goose.

Rattlesnake tail.

(Ed R. Levin County Park)

Large turtle in the lake. Species according to what is named under California Herps.

cool pattern

Roadkill.

This snake was about 5 ft. long, swimming in the channel.
(Shoreline)

Laying eggs

first confirmation of reproduction of a reintroduced population (2015). welcome the first born and bred generation of mountain lake SF western pond turtle in many many (many?) decades

this big turtle was found by Lake Elizabeth on 2018 Nov 21, but it is not native, and is presumably an abandoned pet

I cant figure out what snake this is! Found in San Jose California

This lizard was living its best life by ending the lives of many others. In retrospect, it would have been useful to know my camera can shoot high speed video.