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blue individual?? First time seeing an aberrant colored frog

holy fuck …. lifer and probably my best NY find yet!! Absolutely perfect adorable little seven-striped queen

✅ flip New York’s rarest snake

Finally got a cottonmouth in my home county this year- did nearly step on it, but thankfully I didn't! It was closer than the snake or I would've like it to be.

A large amount of hawk movement before and during the eclipse on the shore of lake Ontario today. I counted 54 individuals in 3 hours and I am not a great hawk-counter.

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY

male 2 in vernal pool, with South Fork Natural History Museum

Lifer!!! Awesome beautiful snake, although crazy it was out in February

El fue muy cerca

holy shit

Parque Nacional Sierra de las Quijadas

About 25 mm long. Matthew, I have emailed you re these.

Adorable fledgelings in tree swallow box

Possible beetle mimicry

Flipped, adorable guy in curled up defense posture

hell yeah

Found injured on trail at 5:20 AM- still there when we came back after sunrise, another group took her to an Audubon center

One female with 6 newly born offspring. The female was radio-monitored

Lifer!!! Literally like the coolest thing I’ve ever flipped

Lifer!! Very pretty individual and cool find, can confirm they smell like onions

Individu bleuté observé dans un étang à castor.

Last baby of the season!

12 days old
Band: 2811-28692
Mass: 22.9 g
Wing: 56 mm
Head-bill: 27.2 mm
Blood taken

Birds handled for research with proper training/permits

Lifer!! Flipped under rock

23 day old swallows in box at fledge check! Absolutely perfect creatures

Lifer! Running along road

!!!!!! Lifer !!! One of the coolest wild animals I’ve seen

Lifer! Crazy good spot by elle, hiding deep in brush

Lifer!

Flipped under rock

Lifer! Singing and very cooperative

Tangled in fishing line, not doing great once released so taken to park rangers

A few were crossing the snow! Photos as found

A few peepers moving on snow

Same as:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151157840

Natural position. Discovered crossing paths.

Holy shit self found and lifer!! Saw him well at night, flew from ground into bushes very close

MASSIVE MUPPY!! Estimated 14.5 inches based on the size of my box. Dipnetted, photos comparing to smaller one caught and last photos underwater after release

Dipnetted muppy!

Anidando en árbol

Lifer!!! Encontrado a noche

En la cueva

Encontrado bajo una piedra

Taken in the Guanica Dry Forest, Guanica, PR.

On the crawl, after I accidentally scared it off the trail it just sat there in this pose and let me take all the macro photos I wanted

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Temps in the mid-upper 30s F. Found under a split log.

My first salamander east of Arizona, and it's a cool one!

Dead, washed ashore at Maidstone beach.

Finally!! Really pretty watersnake, found cruising on the side of a trail. Last pic as found

Feeding voraciously on a spicy wing from Pizza Hut...

On the left (Atlantic rock crab on right), good comparison between Jonah and Atlantic rock crabs. Caught in lobster trap

Seen on barharborwhales demonstration lobster boat

https://crabdatabase.info/en

Holy shit a conger?? Did not expect to find one of these

Flipped under rock with two rock gunnels, put in photo tank for pics and then released (last pic as flipped)

Gunnel!! One of my fave fish

Individual 1, flipped under rock with a second gunnel and an eel, put in photo tank for pics and then released (last pic as flipped)

Caught by a mangrove robin, was seen been repeatedly whipped and smacked against the branch!

And some garters too

The bog turtle is reportedly found only in Floyd Co, Va and two adjacent counties. Rarely seen, I rescued this male from the mouth of a dog and returned it to its place.

I am purposely leaving detailed location information our of this record. I am authorized to handle this species through New York DEC.

while photographing this Cuban Dwarf Boa it started to auto-hemorrhaging.