This is a Chorus frog that we found still in its morph he still has a tail! Isn't he cute! Oh and my roommate Binga's hands
These two pictures are of an Eastern Coral snake that I found on base. By volume this snake has the most potent venom in North America. It is a beautiful snake the largest one I have ever seen usually they are pretty small this one if it was laid out would have been close to 3 feet long. I did use good judgement here I really wanted a head shot but they are a very shy snake and try to run and hide not bite so he kept trying to get under the log you can see in this photo I was very tempted to flip the log but I figured that Karma's a bitch and if I break my rule of do not touch or do anything to cause the animal more stress than taking a photo while messing with a coral snake well something bad could very easily happen!!!!
This picture was taken at the same time as the frog picture we were playing in a big rut (from a tank) that is now a great little wetland(till the heat then it will dry up) when this tank came trundling along on the tank trail(go figure) anyway it was startling to have it pop out of what looked like no where form our view point. (I always wounder what we look like to them two grown girls playing in a puddle) Our version of the story is that we scared them because it got about 100meters off of us and decided to turn around that huge beast of metal managed to turn 180degrees in the same amount of space that it takes me to turn one of our trucks around using only 4 points. I had no idea one that you could completely turn one of those beasts around and two that you can do it in such a small space. It was very cool!
This is a comb cactus plant in flower they are beautiful!
Mourning Dove Nest they don't spend much energy building there nests just a bunch of sticks placed together and they plop their eggs in the middle.
Indian Paint Brush I love this flower so stunning
Baby Fawn we found today so cute quietly laying in this tree stump hoping we didn't see her. Once again I had to work very hard to stick to my no touch rule I just wanted to snuggle it!
I must say the Texas Hill country has a beautiful spring I love all the wild flowers and the large diversity of plants and animals you will see out here. I also a Kettle of Mississippi Kites today there were around 10 of them just amazing to watch them.
I have more pictures to put up but the internet is being weird so I will try later
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