A Chronological Look Back at My Favorite 100 Herping Memories in My Home State in 2018 (Part 4)
A backyard Two-lined Salamander.
An Eastern Milk Snake with an unsual pattern.
An American Bullfrog in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
An Eastern Garter Snake that I found at the edge of a waterway.
Midland Painted Turtle.
An Eastern Milk Snake starting to shed its skin on September 12th.
Red-ear Sliders at Canalway Center.
My last Eastern Garter Snake of the year, found on October 10th.
An American Bullfrog on October 14th.
A Northern Water Snake statue at one of the Metroparks.
A mid-October Midland Painted Turtle.
A Red-ear Slider on October 22nd.
A Midland Painted Turtle on October 28th.
An American Bullfrog in Cuyahoga Valley National Park on November 3rd.
One of the largest DeKay's Snakes I've ever seen I found on the Ohio & Erie Towpth Trail on November 6th.
I also came across this baby DeKay's Snake on the same hike as the adult version pictured above.
There were still a few Green Frogs out in early November, like this one.
My last snake of the year was this chilly, yet feisty Northern Water Snake.
American Bullfrogs seem to be the last frogs to go into hibernation here.
A mid-November Midland Painted Turtle.
A melanistic Red-ear Slider on November 18th.
A "leadback" morph of Redback Salamander that I found in my backyard on November 25th.
An American Bullfrog seen near Station Road Trailhead on December 2nd.
Midland Painted Turtles were last seen on December 14th.
My final amphibian of the year was this backyard Redback Salamander.
The herping year ended in northeast Ohio for me with this Snapping Turtle seen swimming under ice in late December.
