Spot the _________

35 thoughts on “Spot the _________”

1. Found it and I’m pretty sure I can identify it.

   But I won’t spoil it for everyone else.

   1. Yesssssssss

2. Not hard to spot. But I can’t identify it.

3. Lets just say it is a reptile.

   1. I don’t know – we have lots of art work that looks just like that in NZ based on fern fronds. Someone could have just dropped their sculpture on the way home from a gallery! 🙂

      1. fern fronds you say. Looks more like down on the bayou — CCR.

4. According to the usually reliable science textbook known as the Bible this creature can talk.

   1. You can converse with it if you can speak Parseltongue.

      1. After the ingestion of a suitably psycho-active substance this is indeed possible.

5. hiss

   1. Perhaps thus ?
      http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/agkpis.htm

      L o v e l y !

      Thank you !
      Blue

      1. I agree. At least, that was my thought as well.

      2. Yeah, it does look like it’s doing that “thing” with it’s head. It’s version of rattling I imagine.

6. snake

7. This one was easy. Now I need to find that darn nightjar!

8. Is it a cottonmouth/water moccasin?http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/agkpis.htm

9. Snike!

10. Either that’s a snakey or somebody’s got some loose stools…

11. Could it be an hognose snake? The inflated neck looked like a cobra, but this looks like north america: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ5ubN9heAk

    1. I thought that at first but Blue and others mentioned Cottonmouth and it could be that.

12. Cobra of some kind.

    1. That was my guess. Greg is with PCC in India.

13. Looks like it’s ready to molt so the markings are cloudy. Maybe a small constrictor. Boa perhaps? My first thought was a rattler, but didn’t see any rattles.

14. Not sure what it is, but Eve better stay out of that part of the garden.

15. I vote for a cottonmouth in a (beaver?) swamp in eastern Virginia.

16. Agkistrodon piscivorus, but odd coloration. Leucistic, or possibly ready to shed (“in the blue”).

    1. Is the water moccasin the same species as the cottonmouth? I guess I thought they were different, but Wikipedia says different.

       1. Two common names, but only one species. Yes, they are synonyms.

17. Water moccasin?

18. Is it the big rock in the foreground? It looks like igneous rock of some sort.

    1. Is it the big rock in the foreground?

       Tracy Emins husband?
       No, seriously. Or as seriously as you can take anything from a modern artist.

19. Eastern Hognose Snake.

20. A cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)

21. Lichen. On the rock. In the foreground. Possibly several varieties.

    cr

22. Is that a cyprus tree behind there? The beast looks like it has a viper’s head, but no rattle on the tail. Was it molting?

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