One of my other sites does a trip to snake road, illinois every year and this year i was actually able to go!!
My first time at snake road and I feel it was a very productive trip! We didn't seem to find as many venomous as they usually do but we still got a great variety of herps!
First herp of the trip was a 5 lined skink that stowed away in our wood in the back of randy's truck.... he must have had an interesting journey..
Once we got settled we went out and flipped some rocks in a creek, found lots of sallies
long tail
Cave
Slimy
AND a nice fat marbled...
Up in the bluffs we found a few of these nice little plants. jack in the pulpit?
Some frogs now...there were cricket and leopard frogs EVERYWHERE!!! Especially after the rains!
Cricket frog
Bull frog
Green tree
Grey tree
Walking the road at night we saw lots of moths and dung beetles on crap (literally) I never new moths and butterflies had such an affinity for crap....
lots of dragon flies out as well
First snake we found!
A nice rough green, how the hell kelly even saw it is beyond me...
went on to find 4 of those....
and a LOT of these! cuteness
ringnecks
One big black rat was spotted.... lovely thing musked the hell out of kevin....and it was rather rancid.....
Came across a very joyful speckled king...doesn't he look happy to see us
and only a few cottons on this trip, this one isn't my best photo but it was the first we saw...that only stuck around for a brief moment before taking off
Possible Northern water snake... Kevin has a video of my awesome snake wrangling skills with this one somewhere >=)
Was an awesome trip and i really hope i can go again sometime!
oh yeah....
redneck ingenuity doesn't always work....
