NE Oklahoma Critter-Fest
 

Spent a week in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma in May of this year and managed to get a few photos of various reptiles and amphibs.

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Water turtle crossing the road - probably saved its life.

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One of many water snakes encountered - anyone know what morph this is?

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the ubiquitos black rat snake, very common in this area.

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This snapper was eating the baby ducks from my aunt's backyard pond, so we set out some fishing lines and extracted him.

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Black rat climbing a tree.

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Legless lizard of some kind, pretty common on the roads at first light.

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More black rat snakes.

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I don't know which part of the country grows the largest bullfrogs, but my money is on Oklahoma. We saw some absolute monsters.

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Road kill. My guess is a plains kingsnake. Anyone know for sure?

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Baby water turtle.

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Jumbo black rat, over 6 feet long.

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Did a lot of fishing while I was there - this watersnake went for my lure and ended up hooked in the tail. Very smelly release.

Kevin