Snake wildlife
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This is an irked bluestripe garter snake giving me his death glare. See, we aren’t supposed to have this species of snake in my area (Gainesville, Florida), which meant that I just had to capture him for a few photos. To get to him, I had to lunge into cattails and grasses by a pond (nevermind that I nearly fell in) and grab him and pull him out. Understandably, he wasn’t happy about this, and he let me know by biting me. Repeatedly. So I crouched on the ground with the snake in my one bloody hand and my camera in the other and took some photos. This one I think came out the best, as it shows his serious (and justified!) annoyance at me. It was a great experience on the whole, and I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again. :) 100% of the profits from the sale of my work featuring reptiles will be donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in honor of Steve Irwin who educated the world about these amazing creatures.
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I have been wanting to do a follow-up to Colors of Nature, but I wasn’t sure how I wanted to present it. Since I have already done flora, I wanted to do something with fauna, and something unique… Then it struck me how amazingly colorful snakes can be, and how that is something most wouldn’t think to notice. So, I present to you these beautiful snakes, all of whom are wild and were captured, photographed, and released in and around north and central Florida. The colors here are completely natural; I’ve not altered them at all. The snakes are: corn snake (aka red rat snake, Elaphe guttata guttata), yellow rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata), rough green snake (Opheodrys aestivus aestivus), and bluestripe garter snake (same one as in Feeling Blue Thamnophis sirtalis similus). I only wish I had photos of orange and purple snakes to complete the spectrum. :P / . / This is currently not for sale as a laminated print because the border won’t print well with the text on the laminated prints, since RB adds their own border. If you would like to purchase a laminated print, please let me know and I will post a version without the text. :) / . / 100% of the profits from the sale of my work featuring reptiles will be donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in honor of Steve Irwin who educated the world about these amazing creatures.
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The Wife and I were outside with our visiting son. We are getting the ponds and yard ready for prime weather.. I heard my wife do an OMG. So I went over to see whats up… This is what I captured. My Wife thinks it was terrible. I viewed it as a bit exciting to see how nature works live. This is the one pick I decided on. It really did not take long and the snake wanted his lunch to go and was not going to wait for me to capture him.. Got Lucky.. Soon more nature stuff.. I will have more time to play after yard work is done.. LOL..
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This is the Florida cottonmouth, a snake that I love and respect dearly. Cottonmouths have such bad reputations, and it makes me so sad because they are such fantastic creatures. There is a commonly held belief that they “chase people away from their nests” and “aggressively stand their ground.” These ideas are simply a total misinterpretation of their behavior. Snakes are not humans; you cannot interpret their actions in human terms, you must interpret their actions in snake terms. First of all, cottonmouths don’t ever nest. In fact the only snake in the world that nests is the king cobra. Second, when a cottonmouth or any snake moves toward you on the ground, it is not an aggressive move; rather, they are fleeing. See, snakes have poor eyesight and they get confused easily when scared. They look at you and see something big and mistake you for a tree or some other form of shelter under which they can hide. Thirdly, what we see as a cottonmouth “standing its ground” is really just the snake remaining motionless in the hopes that you won’t see it. If it flees, you are more likely to see it and eat it (at least that is what it thinks). This cottonmouth is giving me its characteristic open-mouthed defensive display. In the hundred or more cottonmouths with which I’ve interacted, this is the one and only time I have ever witnessed its defense display. And it only threatened me because I was being annoying, laying on the ground in front of it on my stomach with my camera in one hand and a stick in the other trying to move the brush away from it get a clear shot. As soon as I put the stick down, the defense display stopped and the snake turned and left. This shot was taken across the road from my house north of Gainesville, Florida. 100% of the profits from the sale of this image will be donated to Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors Worldwide.
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This is a southern black racer (Coluber constrictor priapus) that I found stuck in some netting that was very tight and cutting into his body. He would have died had I left him, so I picked him up and brought him home to get some scissors to cut off the netting. Now, racers are very high strung, and most don’t appreciate being handled too much. There have been exceptions, but for the most part, if you pick up a racer, you are probably going to get bitten (the bites are really just scratches, and they aren’t venomous). Given the state that this guy was in, I figured he might be a bit more sedate; I figured wrong. He struck at me over and over and over again, obviously not caring that I was trying to save his silly life. Somehow he managed to never make contact, but it certainly wasn’t for lack of trying. When I got him back to my house, i put him in my lap and cut away the netting. Surprisingly, he held completely still the entire time and didn’t try to strike once. But as soon as the last piece of netting was cut away, he shot out of my lap and immediately turned to strike at me (he missed again). Ingrate! There was no light outside at this point, so I put him on the vanity in my bathroom to take a few shots. Bathrooms don’t provide the best lighting, hence the extremely shallow DOF from shooting at f/2.5. When I was done, I carried him to a part of my property to be released. He didn’t actually try to strike at me at this stage, which I guess for a racer is thank you enough. :) 100% of the profits from the sale of my work featuring reptiles will be donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in honor of Steve Irwin who educated the world about these amazing creatures.
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A rare moment I will never forget. / Two snakes on the greek island of Lesvos, mating / under an old olive tree. check what the product looks like here thank you for stopping by!
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This is the Florida banded watersnake, or Nerodia fasciata pictiventris, “picti” for short. These docile and rather lazy snakes are found throughout Florida in all sorts of bodies of water, especially marshes and ponds. Their body shape, size, and coloration somewhat resemble the venomous Florida cottonmouth. This leads people to mistake the picti for the cottonmouth, and kill them for no reason at all, simply due to mistaken identity. (Of course, the cottonmouth doesn’t deserve death, either, but that’s another post entirely.) What’s interesting is that my 3 year old daughter can tell the difference between a picti and a cottonmouth with nearly 100% accuracy. That says a lot to me… (As an aside, can you see my camera’s reflection in his ocular scale?) 100% of the profits from the sale of my work featuring reptiles will be donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in honor of Steve Irwin who educated the world about these amazing creatures.
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The King Vulture Portrait…... Please view this bird larger he is stunning ! ... (-: The King Vulture, is a large Central and South American bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina. The adult King Vulture is the most strikingly colored of the New World Vultures. King Vultures have lived up to 30 years in captivity, though their lifespan in the wild is unknown. This vulture uses urohydrosis, defecating on its legs, in order to lower its body temperature. Despite its bill and large size, it is relatively unaggressive at a kill and will normally back down rather than fight.The King Vulture lacks a voice box, though it can make low croaking noises and wheezing sounds.Its only natural predators are snakes, which will prey upon the vulture’s eggs and young, and large cats such as jaguars, which may surprise and kill an adult vulture at a carcass. The King Vulture feeds solely on carrion and, unlike some New World Vultures, is not known to kill sick or dying animals for food.It often eats stranded fish along river banks, but does not come to village refuse dumps for food.Though it has keen eyesight which can help it locate food. There is evidence that suggests a decline in population, though it is not significant enough to cause it to be listed.This decline is due primarily to habitat destruction and poaching.
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Pastel pen and ink drawing of a Snake in the Grass. Based on the Original Sin in the Garden of Eden from the Bible. Click on the “Snake in the Grass” Image to buy Print /
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These are two beautiful nonvenomous Florida banded watersnakes (Nerodia fasciata pictiventris) posing for my camera (also seen in Mistaken Identity ). As with all of my snake shots, these are wild snakes that were captured, photographed, and released. These two watersnakes were laying together and just hanging out, a behavior shared by many species of watersnake. This behavior is what has led to the completely false myth of the “nest of cottonmouths.” Cottonmouths are a venomous pit viper with a very mild temperament that are often found near bodies of water. Every time I talk about cottons with someone, invariably they mention the fabled waterskier that died from falling into a “nest of cottonmouths.” But cottons are not watersnakes, they do not “nest,” they bear live young on land, and they are purely solitary snakes that only come together to mate. The newly born cottonmouths disperse immediately upon birth, so at no time does the mother cotton defend her young. In short, you would no more find a cottonmouth in a nest than you would find one on Jupiter. However, it is very common to see groups of harmless, nonvenomous watersnakes hanging out together (although it’s still not a “nest”). Because of this myth, people assume these harmless snakes to be cottonmouths, and they kill them. I have seen so many dead and wounded watersnakes, and it is a heartbreaking thing to see. :( / . / 100% of the profits from the sale of this print will be donated to Steve Irwin’s Wildlife Warriors in honor of Steve Irwin and his contribution to the conservation of reptiles and animals worldwide.
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I was picking at this all week and finally yesterday I spilled a recalcitrant cup of tea over it and decided to start again. No amount of computer editing was going to put it right.. It worked out much better the second time round. / The letter O in Amazonistas was originally an image of pachamama who if I’m not too far off is the spirit of the Amazon forest and has a lot to do with Ayahuasca where she takes the form of either the jaguar or the anaconda who in the course of my research I found have similar markings, I took the overall shape of the eye from a different image of her. I had to replace the O because I was unwittingly using a copyrighted image. That sun of mine deserves a bit more press. / There are three guys in the eye of the snake and they’re part of the Amazonistas project. / The letter N is there for a girl named Noemi. And the anaconda represents her and Pachamama too. And if my own sister’s name wasn’t Naomi I wouldn’t have spent so much time on enns. / The last S is me. / The original idea was to have something to raise awareness so an open eye was obvious enough. / I was asked to put in the prayer at the bottom in Portuguese and then English. / I should put a few little glitches right but it’s going to take a lot of messing around with splines and this is needed fo a conference in a few days so I’ve rushed it a bit. Seamos fuertes con la verdad. Podemos saber amor y nunca saber hambre. Podemos vivir bien en nuestras convicciones y nunca saber un dia de violencia o sufrimiento. Que todas nuestras acciones de gratitude y ofricimiento sean para un mundo mejor. May we stand strong in truth. May we know love and never know hunger. May we live well in our convictions and never know a day of violence or suffering. May our every gesture show our gratitude and be our offering for a better world. _______ / You can contact Embrace directly to find out more. There’s tons of info on the Amazonistas at the other end of these links http://people.tribe.net/rareworlds / http://www.myspace.com/rareworlds / http://rareworlds.blogspot.com photo collections: / http://www.flickr.com/photos/tillyblye amazonistas page at tribe: / http://people.tribe.net/0afb1e8d-6e8e-4356-b9b6-344d93007fe1 _______ Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Australian Wildlife
by Steve BullockA collection of some of Australia’s iconic wildlife, lots of Reptiles in there of course! $30.00 Enjoy! !http://www.fotothing.co…
A collection of some of Australia’s iconic wildlife, lots of Reptiles in there of course! $30.00 Enjoy!
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16×20 colored pencil on grey matboard. Original available. I’m really not crazy about snakes, but they do come in so many colors that it was hard NOT to try. This one was a challenge but – believe it or not – it was so much fun!! Completed 1999
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Timber rattlesnake, controlled environment.
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This is the only species of rattlesnake that is consistently without a rattle on its tail. (Santa Catalina Island – Baja California) / / / / / / / / / / /
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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite / and furthermore always carry a small snake. / by W. C. Fields —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / I found this little guy slithering around on my lounge room floor! After watching him for a while and trying to decide what to do with him, I thought why not take a photo. I scooped him up into a plastic container and set it under a downlight on my kitchen bench which produced these reflections. Meanwhile my son stood guard to make sure he didn’t escape before I got this shot by standing on the benchtop and focusing down into the open container. /
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©2007-2008 Shannon Plummer. All Rights Reserved. / www.shannonplummerphotography.com
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This is based upon the Nature’s Rainbow collage that I uploaded yesterday. I thought it might make a nice t-shirt design for snake-adorers like myself. :) / . / 100% of the profits from the sale of my work featuring reptiles will be donated to Wildlife Warriors Worldwide in honor of Steve Irwin who educated the world about these amazing creatures.
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Gopher Snake close-up on Figueroa Mountain, Santa Ynez, CA One of the most widespread snakes in North America, its range extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as far north as southern Canada, and as far south as Veracruz, Mexico. This species can reach five to six feet in length, and are among the more “human-friendly” species of North American snakes, mainly due to the fact that they are not venomous, hunt vermin (hence the name) and are easily raised and bred in captivity. When startled or angry, they will hiss very loud and rattle their tails. This is why they are sometimes mistaken for a rattlesnake.Habitat: Found in a wide variety of habitats, including deserts, prairies, woodlands, brushlands, coniferous forests, and even cultivated land. Gopher snakes often live in discarded or conquered gopher holes. Consider these images as companions. :-)
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My hubby and I rescued this snake from our pool on Sunday. We had pulled him out of the pool and set him on the deck. He wasn’t very happy with us either!! LOL …... He tried striking out at us a half dozen times before we released him ..... This is a Florida Brown Snake that ECGardner has given a positive ID of. He was only about 12” long and his head was about the size of my thumb. He was very beautiful!! After I had taken several shots we released him in our back yard. The thread across his body is actually a dog hair he picked up while moving along the deck of the patio :-) /
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Banana turning into a snake with apples on a black background.
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Bateleur Eagle / Terathopius ecaudatus The Bateleur eagle is the most famous of the snake eagles. Bateleur is French for “tightrope-walker”. This name was probably chosen because of its distinctive aerial acrobatics. Its pitch black feathers with white under the wings, bright red face and legs and black beak are characteristic markings. Unlike most creatures, female Bateleur eagles are larger than males. A big thanks to Deb for choosing this image to be showcased in Pay It Forward. Please take a look at her stunning portfolio here This is what she had to say about “Snake Hunter” “This is my all time favorite piece on redbubble. This was a very difficult choice to make!!! I have such a passion and love for nature but most of all……the birds of prey. So I gravitated in that direction. The piece I chose is of a bird of prey. It’s titled “Snake Hunter” by bobbymcleod. I love this brilliant shot and have chosen this to be my favorite. One reason being, that you don’t see many shots of these eagles. And secondly, these eagles like so many birds of prey……. have such power/determination in their eyes and they are just so incredibly beautiful!! Bobby has captured all of those elements in his brilliant photo of this stunning Bateleur Eagle.” Thanks again Deb! Other Categories / Animals / Apes / Architecture / Baby Animals / Bears / Birds / Big Cats / Elephants / Fish / Insects / Macro / Nature / Reptiles
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