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Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta)Observer
smpbiologist-schurchinDescription
One tough turtle!
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Fisher (Pekania pennanti)Observer
sheoftheplantsDescription
Reported it to state wildlife and they came to pick it up. Not pictured but it was a male
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Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor)Observer
tethydorosDescription
set up a chair so they all got out safe
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Midland Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta ssp. marginata)Observer
jheiserDescription
Painted turtle appears to be eating algae off the shell of the snapping turtle, which has its head above water and is swimming.
In this same location on 12 July, I observed a painted turtle making relatively violent bites on the neck of a snapper that never lifted its head out of the water. I'm not certain that snapper was alive. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/181135100
Video is available of both incidents.
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Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)Observer
jheiserDescription
The painted turtle appears to be eating algae off the shell of the snapping turtle. The snapping turtle is keeping its snout above water, and swimming, so I'm certain it was alive. Earlier this season in the exact same location, 12 July , I'd observed and videoed a painted turtle making relatively violent bites on the neck of a snapper. That snapper never lifted its head above water, and I'm not certain that it was alive.
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Carolina Mantis (Stagmomantis carolina)Observer
michelle1355Description
Found on the side of my house. Lovely lady.
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American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber)Observer
darrellhanceDescription
Caesar Creek State Park Beach. Hurricane Idalia Vagrants, first ever observation in Ohio.
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American Water Frogs (Genus Lithobates)Observer
klmockingbirdDescription
Seeking suggestions. These sounds were recorded during a span of 4 minutes. The animal was out of view along the bank of the old Ohio & Erie Canal. There is still, non-flowing water. I was facing east toward the water and the presumed frog was along the bank nearest to me, a drop of maybe 2 feet, so I couldn't see anything. From the recordings, it doesn't seem to me to be in distress, but it's possible it was being preyed upon by a snake. I've played a CD published by ODNR Division of Wildlife of Nocturnal Wildlife Sounds and to me the pitch sounds closest to a Wood Frog, but they are past their breeding peak.
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Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)Observer
jheiserDescription
I think the snapper must have been very recently deceased
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Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctuosa)Observer
mikeabelDescription
caught by a red-winged blackbird
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Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)Observer
mikeabelDescription
with a dragonfly
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Common Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)Observer
iangriffiths112Description
My wiener poking through the fly of my pants
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Broken-striped Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens ssp. dorsalis)Observer
trumpsters
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Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina)Observer
kspringerDescription
I watched a Snapping Turtle fight an Eastern Fox Snake to the death!
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Eastern Foxsnake (Pantherophis vulpinus)Observer
kspringerDescription
A Snapping Turtle fought it to it's death (I watched it.).
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Solitary Sandpiper (Tringa solitaria)Observer
russell_engelmanDescription
Probing the mud on the bank
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Northern Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis saurita ssp. septentrionalis)Observer
jackieriley
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Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans)Observer
schultztomDescription
Also Enallagma geminatum. Denison University Biological Reserve
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Wandering Broadhead Planarian (Bipalium adventitium)Observer
fuzzyspiderDescription
under a log in the woods
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Alameda Whipsnake (Masticophis lateralis ssp. euryxanthus)Observer
passiflora4
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Cuban Tree Frog (Osteopilus septentrionalis)Observer
tortuga_rapidoDescription
Found by a professional florist in a shipment of flowers from Florida.
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American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus)Observer
kimssightDescription
Cool reverb on the water when the frog croaked
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Pacific Chorus Frog (Pseudacris regilla)Observer
tiwaneDescription
I was amazed to find this Sierran Treefrog trying to make a meal of a juvenile Taricha.
When I flipped the log the newt was upside down and in the frog's mouth, but was soon let go. The frog's tongue stuck out for a few seconds afterwards, I'd like to think due to awesome tetrodotoxin.
Pepperwood Preserve. Santa Rosa, California.
