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Big Toadie

July 8th, 2013 by Ethan

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Big Toadie has lived in my garage for the last several summers, and comes out at night and eats june bugs and other insects under the outside light. She is a Woodhouse’s toad. It’s great fun to catch june bugs and pitch them to her.

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Eastern Plains Garter Snake

April 6th, 2012 by Ethan

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I saw this eastern plains garter snake when I was mushroom hunting.

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Bullfrog Camouflage

March 30th, 2011 by Ethan

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Another shot from a few years ago that I never got around to posting here.

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Happy New Year !!

January 1st, 2011 by Ethan

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A couple of late night long exposures of a common grey tree frog. It was clinging to the front of my garage under the light. The first one is 30 seconds, the second is 10 seconds. I shot these on a hot night last August. 300 mm macro. I could go for some of that August heat & humidity right now.

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Merry Christmas !!

December 24th, 2010 by Ethan

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A friend of mine found this painted turtle in his yard this summer. He brought it over to me for some pics and then I turned it loose in the water hole. It hung around for a few days and then wandered off downstream.

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Woodhouse’s Toad

September 20th, 2010 by Ethan

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A large Woodhouse’s toad that lived in my garage for most of the summer. Note the extremities of a daddy longlegs sticking out of its mouth in the lower photo.

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Common Grey Tree Frog

August 2nd, 2010 by Ethan

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A very small tree frog on the back of my shed. Approximately 1.25″ long. 300mm macro. Note the tiny spider webs in the large version.

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Baby Toad

July 31st, 2010 by Ethan

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I was chasing this tiny baby American toad around in the dark with a flashlight the other night. I didn’t think it was ever going to hold still long enough for a shot. Eventually it stopped for breath up against the side of my shed and I got a few quick shots.

Sigma 150mm 2.8 EX Macro + Sigma 2x TC and Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash. A great setup for nighttime macros with my Canon 1D3.

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Tree Frog

July 30th, 2009 by Ethan

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A tree frog I shot in June at my Dad’s place in southeast Iowa.

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Tree Frog

August 7th, 2008 by Ethan

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I found this tiny frog on the back of my shed last night. It’s the first tree frog I’ve seen here in several years. It’s been a wet year, though the immediate vicinity could use a good shower about right now.

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A Bird Noodle

April 12th, 2008 by Ethan

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This young Red-tailed Hawk battled high winds to catch the tiny snake.

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Garter Snake

July 10th, 2007 by Ethan

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This big garter snake was sunning itself in a brush pile.

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Big Snake

June 5th, 2007 by Ethan

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From Willow Slough – It’s a red-sided garter snake, not a western ribbon snake like I originally posted.

Thanks to Jeff at HerpNet for identifying this snake.

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Little Snapper

May 29th, 2007 by Ethan

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I found this small snapping turtle in the middle of the highway.

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Snapper

May 27th, 2007 by Ethan

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A snapping turtle I found on the side of the road. I only had my super-wide angle lens with me so I had to get right in its face.

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Easy Livin’

April 20th, 2007 by Ethan

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This Black Racer (I think) has taken up residence in an old wren house. It seems to like having its meals delivered.

This should put a smile on the faces of a few Bluebirders, seeing as how they don’t like wrens very much. 🙂

I shot these over a few days. The snake has good vision and is extremely wary.

UPDATE 4/2/2011 – Jeff at HerpNet.net tells me that this is a western rat snake aka a black rat snake.

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