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Lifer for me. =) Found under a log with near vernal pools with another four-toed and an eastern red-backed salamander.

Male hanging out in the woods marking turf. The first audio is its calling and the second is its drumming.

Two timber rattlesnakes and single cottonmouth underneath rotting log in central Georgia.

~45 cm TL. Caught in a finger of the reservoir. Released after photo.

~20 cm TL. Probably in first few weeks of life. Found under a rock along a creek with a pair of mature northern ring-necked snakes.

There are actually 2 specimens in the photo curled around each other. Found under a rock along a creek with a neonate northern watersnake.

Eastern Garter Snake

Found in road near flooded plain/ swamp area. Photographed during a collaboration with @tysmith and the same specimen he posted at: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/58347578

Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, Nags Head, North Carolina.

My "Garden Guardian". Photographed protecting my Pepper plants. : )

White-pored Chicken of the Woods. 2nd & 3rd photos taken a day after 1st photo.

Whoo!

~6.5cm carapace length. Feisty little fella.

Known location.

Lifer. Five seen, three photographed. Known, kinda secret, population...

along stream bank

Noticed a few in the creek. Put my GoPro in and got the best shot I could.