Here’s a Chiricahua Leopard Frog (Lithobates chiricahuensis), my first photo-worthy encounter. I couldn’t sneak within range on foot, but in a car … they don’t seem to even register it as a threat. I drove to within a few feet and shot this picture out the window, and they only lept into the water upon the opening of my door.
Hundreds of these were swimming in shallow pools this September in Santa Cruz county, along with many more less-developed tadpoles of various species. This is the southern-most example of a Canyon Treefrog I had seen.
Also out in vast numbers were these big lubber grasshoppers. They were so big that I first mistaked them for tarantulas crossing the road when I saw them.
… some habitat:
HDR Picture with a LOMO effect from near Kanab Utah last June.
Here’s a pretty typical-looking Western Diamondback Rattlesnake on the move towards some open rodent burrows after being relocated from a North Phoenix garage. The guy I got it from had a lot of respect for the snake, and actually kept it in an aquarium in his garage to be released, despite pleas from the neighbors to kill it. I wish everyone that moved out here had that sort of attitude.
This one took a little work. It was very early in the morning and the mosquitos were just ridiculous, and she was on a ledge that didn’t give many options for a stealthy approach. I ended up having to pretty much crawl on my belly under some low hanging branches through wet grass to get some good in situ shots of this Crotalus lepidus klauberi catching the first sun of the day.
… and one even closer to show the cool camo of this snake in native rocky habitat.
Here’s a picture from an early August morning with my first instance of this snake, the Ridge-Nosed Rattlesnake (Crotalus willardi). We found a few more that month, but there’s never a snake like your first. This picture just feels like someone slept in the driver’s seat of their car in the middle of nowhere to get it. Well, it does to me anyway.
Found this little baby last July. Feisty little guy.
A Diamondback I photographed in July 2006 with my little point and click, out on the road.
Here’s another old photograph of a Mojave Rattlesnake found road-cruising in Arizona.
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