I went across the river to a couple spots in Crawford County today for a few hours and quite a bit of hiking and flipping.

I found close to twenty Carphophis, and equal amount of Diadophis, and 5 or 6 Virginia striatula, which I didn't bother taking more than cell vouchers of, but I did find some other stuff, some new to me entirely, and some yearly firsts.

The first herp of the day was a lifer that wasn't even in my mind to really find, but I'm glad I did. Pretty cool little guys..

Plethodon angusticlavius - Ozark zig zag salamander

I ended up finding five of them total.

The next notable find for me was something I had only found one other of, on the Fall field trip last year...

Gastrophryne carolinensis - Eastern narrow mouthed toad

The second lifer of the day happened to come by complete accident. I was walking down a dirt road with some muddy water trickling down it. I had seen a number of cricket frogs just hopping around... just about everywhere when I came to a large flat rock on the mud. I wasn't expecting anything to really be under it, but when I flipped it, I saw two of these guys squirm into the leaf litter..

Eurycea tynerensis - Oklahoma salamander. I didn't really bother taking anything more than voucher shots with this one.

Lifer number three was something I had flipped a few times, just never bothered to catch...

Plestiodon anthracinus pluvialis - Southern coal skink

That was about it from that spot. I headed to another spot north, where I had found a few cottonmouths last year. I'm getting pretty desperate for a hot by now... I ended up spotting one cotton basking in some rocks but it took off as I approached it.

After not seeing much at that spot other than tons of Acris, I came upon a small trench that had some shallow water and a number of egg masses in it. Upon observing the egg masses (toad, at least two different frog, and at least one salamander) I spotted this leopard, another first for the year.

Lithobates sphenocephalus utricularus - Southern leopard frog

While shooting that guy, that's when I spotted lifer number 4 for the day, and something I had been hoping to find since I got here last summer... it was just foraging on the bottom of this shallow trench.

Chelydra serpentina - Common snapping turtle

That's about it for today, and I struck out on my main targets, but it was nice getting out and definitely nice adding some more to the list.