From the category archives:
Yesterday I got up early and headed to one of my favorite small lakes to watch the sunrise and the wildlife. This is a small shallow lake that I can always count on seeing Great Blue Herons and Whitetail Deer. I have taken a lot of photos here and always felt that the wildlife did [...]
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I guess the warm weather here in Arkansas changed this turtles mind on hibernating. This is the first turtle I have seen in several weeks so I thought they may have hibernated.
From the National Zoo:
Environmental temperature determines activity rate. Preferred body temperature is between 84 and 100° F (37.8° C). In the heat of [...]
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Just prior to shedding, the skin becomes dull and dry looking and the eyes become cloudy or blue-colored.
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Note: I received a comment and an email from Mark Kenderdine: I keep and breed both racers and prairie kings as well as a few dozen other species of kings, milks, corns, and ratsnakes. Baby prairie kings look very similar to adults but more vivid usually. Whereas the racers lose the blotches and become solid [...]
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Even the lizards are having tick problems here in Arkansas.
Here is another photo I took of a lizard with a tick back in 2007: Lizard With A Tick
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