#field herping

[hazeriley]

I love finding Skinks 🖤💙

[hazeriley]

Black Racer

Coluber constrictor

[hazeriley]

I love these little guys 🦎🥺

[jadewolf-writes]

Some scaly friends I met today while on a Audubon-sponsored geology field trip.

On the left is a Great Basin gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer deserticola), found inside one of the earthquake ruptures we were exploring.

On the right is a common side-blotched lizard (Uta stansburiana), sunning itself on some basalt.

[markscherz]

Look at this friend I made on my way home the other day! What a glorious creature! So gracile and smooth! Truly a peak being. What a privilege it is to share this time in Earth’s history with creatures like this.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Field herping is the activity of finding reptiles and amphibians in the field.

Spotted salamander

© Grace Cohen / TNC

[markscherz]

Do you have any good resources for west coast frog identification? I have ‘The Book of Frogs’ textbook but it’s a pain to leaf through! I’m wondering is there’s a site like Calflora but for frogs or other wild life maybe?

If you are trying to identify things that you have decent photos of, iNaturalist has a very good automatic recognition feature.

Otherwise, there's a fieldguide to that area that has decent reviews.

[chemically-cathartic]

A Blanchard’s cricket frog, also spotted at Gary Park in Georgetown, Texas.

Little guy was quite complacent for the photos lmao.