I met up with Matthew and Idun (and Jim) over Memorial Day weekend for another [failed] attempt at Arkansas Corals.  I'm really starting to rack up some time, effort, and miles on this obsession!  HA!

The weekend basically consisted of flipping cover, hiking a trail, driving some likely roads..."wash, rinse, repeat".  A couple of staff members had spotted a Coral earlier this spring crossing one of the back roads nearby, so I KNOW my strategies are on target and that it's only a matter of time; it just wouldn't be this time.

Still, we came across a few neat things, as you can see:

Southern Copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix)
Western Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma)
Northern Scarletsnake (Cemophora coccinea copei)
Southern Black Racer (Coluber constrictor priapus)
Texas Ratsnake (Pantherophis obsoletus)
Orange-striped Ribbonsnake (Thamnophis proximus proximus)
Eastern Gartersnake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis)
Earthsnake (Virgina sp.)

Prairie Lizard (Sceloporus consobrinus)
Common Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon fasciatus)
Broad-headed Skink (Plestiodon laticeps)
Little Brown Skink (Scincella lateralis)
Prairie Racerunner (Aspidoscelis sexlineata viridis)

Emydidae sp.
Three-toed Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina triunguis)
Mississippi Mud Turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis)
Eastern Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus)

Toad (Anaxyrus sp.)
Blanchard's Cricket Frog (Acris blanchardi)
Western Bird-voiced Treefrog (Hyla avivoca avivoca)
Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis)
Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)
Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad (Gastrophryne carolinensis)
American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus)
Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans ssp.)
Southern Leopard Frog (Lithobates sphenocephalus utricularius)

Central Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis)

I also had a DOR Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) closer to home.

Idun and Matthew with a gravid Broad-headed Skink

Northern Scarletsnake (Nice find, Idun!!!)

Mississippi Mud Turtle

Male Broad-headed Skink (He's gonna do well with the ladies, methinks.)

Eastern Gartersnake

Western Bird-voiced Treefrog

Orange-striped Ribbonsnake

Southern Copperhead (You know the road cruising is slow when you stop to photograph these.  HA!)

Western Cottonmouth (This looks like it could have been photographed in Florida or something!)

Southern Black Racer

Eastern Gartersnake

Basking turtles of some variety

Signage

Non-herps:

I also got a good audio recording of the Bird-voiced Treefrogs, which I will add to this post once processed.

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Well, tonight felt like a killer night for road cruising...so I'm sure everyone else will post all of the cool things they found while I'm sitting here at the computer.