Update 2/22: found three more adults in same general area, all with complete tails unlike first specimen. So there are at least four adult southern prairie skinks in the vicinity.

Ate a cicada, which is the one on the left side of the last picture

Eating another snake, it finished by the time I got back with my phone

Texas style drink!

Eastern Milk Snake devouring a Garter Snake

Sent to me from a family member on the ranch. This observation is for the snake the indigo is eating.

Observation for the indigo- http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131009938

Bexar county.

DOR adult male. With Jeff Adams. Retained for deposit. Pocket knife is 4" in length. Imaged only. GTS 3912.

DOR adult male. Retained for deposit. GTS 3506.

Young adult female DOR on FM 2895. Retained for deposit in the THNC at UT Austin. GTS 1932.

DOR young adult male on Hwy 17. GTS 2040. Retained for deposit at TNHC.

DOR young adult female Texas Ratsnake on Sisterdale Cutoff Road (N. School Street). Very heavy bodied for the size (~40" TL). GTS 1950. Retained for deposit at TNHC.

About a two to three year old (subadult) female Texas Ratsnake DOR on Scenic Loop Road. Fresh hit, still moving. Retained for deposit at UT Austin TNHC. GTS 3154.

DOR on Ranger Creek Road. GTS 2034. Retained for deposit at TNHC.

DOR on shoulder (~12 hrs old). Retained for deposit. GTS 3374.

Adult AOR/DOR on Walnut Road. Still moving when found. Retained for deposit at UT Austin. Imaged only. GTS 3903.

DOR large juvenile female. Fresh hit (still moving). With Robert Edwards and Brian Williams. Retained for deposit. Imaged only. GTS 4143.

Sub-adult found DOR on Hwy 17. GTS 1994. Retained for deposit at TNHC.

Sub-adult DOR on Hwy 17. GTS 2041. Retained for deposit at TNHC.

Juvenile DOR on FM 2810. With Doug Beckwith. Retained for deposit. GTS 3448.

iNaturalist could not ID.

DOR juvenile. Retained for museum deposit (TNHC). GTS 3737.

DOR juvenile male. Retained for museum deposit (TNHC). GTS 3736.

Spider mortality!

DOR, right after recent rain. Had cannibalized a smaller individual that was poking out of its ruptured stomach.

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Feeding on a Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake.

Found on a freshly burned sandhill after a brief rain. 4 1/2ft in length approximately.
Very obscured location due to this species being protected.
Ask the biologists if you need a location.

Eating another snake

DOR hatchling. With Jeff Adams. Retained for deposit at UT Austin (TNHC) under scientific collecting permit. GTS 3537.

Same specimen as: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/30228068

The date in August is tentative--would have been whenever was the dark-of-the-moon. The snake was collected by Ken Smith and was about 18" TL.

Found freshly hit and barely alive on the Pecos boat ramp early in the AM.

I found it under a piece of plywood next to the road.

Killed by dogs, while eating a Texas Blind Snake.

Sorprendida devorando una lagartija en zona habitacional

Marvelous defensive display

Ate a cicada

Ate a cicada

73" (185.4 cm) length. Found caught in fence, and already dead from heat and/or lack of water.

Subadult CSL out on a cut. Image by a friend (RE).

Adult DOR 24+ hours. Small Checkered Gartersnake protruding from body (upper part of image, and second image). Imaged only. GTS 2517.

DOR on Walnut Grove North. Note prey snake issuing forth from mid-body. Young Texas Ratsnake see: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/51147200 Imaged only. GTS 3779.

DOR 67+” long

With Gerry Salmon and Isabella.

Bayshore Blufflands 2014 Herpetological Survey

DOR juvenile (overheated). Imaged only. GTS 3047.

Dead young adult. Overheated on black plastic wetland barrier. Imaged only. GTS 3057.

Large adult male caught in fence at construction site. Recovered and released. Imaged only. GTS 3059.

Large adult imaged after removal from fencing on a construction site. Imaged only. GTS 3061.

Young adult male removed alive from drift fencing and released. Imaged only. GTS 3072.

Remains of a large adult in plastic netting. In barn. Identified thru size and remaining skin with keeled scales and partially white venter. Imaged only. GTS 3233.

Subadult found dead on silt fencing used as an apron across wetland. Death likely due to overheating. Collected. GTS 3206.

Preying on American Robin

Eating DOR whiptail.

Small copperhead. Baby, juvenile? She was eating another snake but could tell what kind. Need ID only on the one eating the other snake. Not the one being eaten. But if you can go ahead. Thank you.

With Gerry Salmon

Sonoran Mountain Kingsnake

Falsa Coralillo Real Mexicana encontrada dentro de vivienda (en trampa de ratas).

Possible Elaphe guttata. Found near parking lot in early evening, after sunset.