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Well I (Payton) finally got around to editing the photos (quick run through Lightroom® for contrast and vignette boost) from last weekend and thought I’d throw them up.

It was a relatively mundane trip out to Lick Creek as I got out a little late and it was already warming up for the day.  I did, however, end up running into a nice little surprise!  This is only my second Western Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma) ever, and the first one I’ve ever been able to capture while it was gaping that beautiful white mouth at me!

I walked up on this little guy while I was walking a dried up creek bed and he couldn’t have been calmer.  You’ve got to love the awful reputation they get because of that defensive open mouth display.

Anyways, the rest of the day consisted of a few different species of frog and plenty of Common Ground Skinks.  I’m hoping to get out a few times this week and will hopefully have more photos and video to go along with it.  Enjoy!

~Payton

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Well, if you haven’t noticed we’ve completely redone the site and given our news feeds and Field Diary a makeover as well.  We’ve moved to a blogger system to more easily manage and update the diary so that we can get our experiences and finds out there to ya’ll as quickly as possible.  Also, we’re going to be featuring more photos and, now, even video clips from the field!  So keep checking back as I’m sure we’ll be getting out in the field more here soon as the fall herping season approaches.

Also, to those of you who have followed us previously, I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to get the old field posts and photos up, but I’m going to try as hard as possible so don’t lose all hope yet.

Keep checkin’ back and have fun viewing the rest of the site!

~ Payton Ruddock

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