Found a large Cottonmouth in my garage yesterday. She was giving birth. This is baby number one, 15 minutes old and lively as hell.5yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/natureismetal
Ringed Salamander egg-laying in an Ozark Mountain spring in October.4yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/herpetology
Hognose in hissing/I-am-viper/I-am-dangerous mode. Right before oops-I'm-dead mode.3yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/herpetology
Tammy, my 19 week old ISA Brown, in her preferred nest box for the full week.4yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/chickens
Flatside Wilderness, Ouachita Mountains, Perry county, on the storm day.2yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/Arkansas
Male Phidippus mystaceus, a favorite Jumper, on one of my young sweetgums in October.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/spiderbro
Copperhead (2 1/2 footer) struck my daughter's small Spaniel and now 5 weeks later she will make it. 9 days in the hospital. $3000 dollars to the Vet.4yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/natureismetal
Phiale formosa, Central American Jumper, sort of a Tim Burton looking thing.5yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/spiders
Red-shouldered Hawks are nesting right out my back window this year. Female on nest day 3 after 32 days of nest construction. Male just brought her a bird which I could not ID through scope.4yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/birding
Black Widow for the frog score. Tonight she eats like she never has.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/natureismetal
Violet-fronted Brilliant, up close and personal, eastern foothills, Ecuador.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/birdpics
Yellow-headed Caracara, checking the docks for gutted Piranha parts, northeastern Peru.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/birding
Mosquito, about to just tap directly into the skink brain pan for spinal fluid. The damn devil's insect.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/natureismetal
Sometimes hundreds of Diamondback Watersnakes sunning in stacks along the Oxbows. Do not ram these with your boat.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/natureismetal
Grosbeaks coming through in large numbers this weekend, taking sunflower seed.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/birding
🔥 Strawberry Poison Dart Frogs, from Costa Rica. As with the other Darts, the alkaloid toxins vary with diet. This one gets most of its toxin from Formicine ants. Causes convulsions, paralysis and death. Otherwise, they are cute and chirpy.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Broad-winged Hawk nesting in my woods, now stalking the yard. Bounced a Blue Jay off my window yesterday.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/birding
Another spiderbro gives up the ghost after sex. He, no doubt, thought it was an astonishing performance.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/spiderbro
Snapping Turtle Sex: a take no prisoners, plan on losing some flesh event.6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/natureismetal
🔥 Young Copperhead with a kind of a go-ahead-and-touch-me smirk in his close up 🔥6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
🔥 If Jumping Spiders were the size of cats, we'd all be dead. 🔥6yr ⋅ HR_Dragonfly ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
