I was ready to call it a day and return to the house. I had shots of a wasp, a cool caterpillar, and a blue bee. I decided I would make one more round of the yellow wildflowers, because that's where I was finding cool stuff today.
I stopped dead in my tracks! There was a SNAKE in my wildflowers! I know it's silly, but I fear snakes more than any living creature. I knew it was a harmless Northern Rough Green Snake, but to me a snake is a snake.
I thought I have to get a pic. This is too good not to. I was shaking so hard by then, it's a miracle the pics weren't just a blur. If I didn't have zoom on my camera, I wouldn't have gotten any at all. I took pics until he started slithering away and then I did call it a day!!! :0)
The Northern Rough Green Snake is found in the US, southern Canada, and northern Mexico. They rarely exceed 90 cm (around 36 inches). I think this one was at its limit! They eat crickets, spiders, moths, butterflies, and grasshoppers. He could find all these goodies in the wildflowers.
@bill_d@bec01@dlo@terek55@pyrrhula@lilbumblebee@timandelke Thank you all for your nice comments! I never thought I would be taking a pic of a snake and be that close to it. Later today. there were two black racer snakes in our backyard. No pics of them!!!! I ran!!! :0)
You have done extremely well if you have a fear of snakes. Ya gotta love zoom. He certainly blends in with his surroundings. I spotted 4 snakes here the other day but they were all very camera shy and disappeared before I even had a chance to get the camera.
Fantastic - that yellow and green is so zingy. I adore snakes! I'd love to seem them more often but we only have two fairly shy native species - I've seen an adder in the wild only once - and I was so excited I chased after it to get a pic, down the edge of a slightly precipitous clifftop - my walking friends had to hold on to me to stop me losing my footing ...
Looks like a sweet snake and definitely harmless. So glad you could overcome your phobia to take this photo for us; a true 365er!!
I seem to have missed some of your photos when I was away so will have a look at them now.
congrats! since i take pictures and this is since a long time i am waiting for snakes to take a portrait of them. i forget all my fears because they are so beautiful and i absolutely have to have a picture of them :-)
November 15th, 2011
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I seem to have missed some of your photos when I was away so will have a look at them now.