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Spring has Sprung!

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Nice Springtime trip down to S. FL.
Few FL Kings, sweet SK and a couple nice red rats.
But the coolest find was this "hypo" banded water snake.
Road cruising in the early evening I ran across 3 normal water snakes.
They were all typical dark with banded side marking.
When I first spotted this snake at night my first reaction was red rat.
But turned out to be a "hypo light phase" banded.

All snakes release right were they were found!
 

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Pics of FL Kings. Hard work to locate these guys.
But well worth the sweat. LOL
First time finding a SK while road cruising. Nice wide yellow bands!
 

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Everglade Rat Snake! Great to see these guys around.
Also several black racers, ringnecks, glass lizards and a tons of gators soaking up the warm FL sun.

Lastly, a road side memorial.
I stood there and thought about what might have happen here.
The writing was all in Spanish.
Another horrible crash where lives were lost in an instant?
I said a small prayer for the families and realized, everyday is a gift from above.
Know Jesus today, tomorrow may be to late! Don't leave earth without Him!
God Bless. mike
 

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Man, how the heck do you catch glass lizards without them dropping their tails? I've stopped picking them up when I find them because I just hate it when they do that.
 
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