Twelve Months of Northern Ohio Herps in 2020 (Part 3)

A frog/turtle combo in Cuyahoga Valley National Park on June 10th.

A great looking Eastern Milk Snake that I found on the same day.

A Green Frog calling also on June 10th.

I came across this Midland Painted Turtle trapped between railroad tracks on the same day and released it into a nearby waterway.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a great place to observe wildlife. Here's what the Cuyahoga River looked like on June 17th.

A "triple species flip" consisting of an Eastern Milk Snake, Northern Ringneck Snake and Eastern Garter Snake.

A Common Snapping Turtle basking on June 17th.

Though it's not a herp, this huge Dark Fishing Spider was a cool find.

Eastern Garter Snake can be quite variable in appearance. Here's three examples that I found in June.

Eastern Garter Snake.

Eastern Garter Snake.

A mid-June Gray Treefrog.

A young Green Frog found in my backyard creek.

I took a trip out to Wooster Ohio in mid-June and found my only Ohio Longtailed Salamander of the year.

A Wood Frog that I also found in Wooster on the same day.

An end-of-June DeKay's Brown Snake.

A young Common Snapping Turtle that I came across on July 1st.

July 16th was World Snake Day - I celebrated by finding this Eastern Milk Snake.

An Eastern Garter Snake found on the same day as the milk.

An American Bullfrog on August 5th.

A neat looking Eastern Garter Snake that I found on the same day.

A humdinger of a Common Snapping Turtle seen in Cuyahoga Valley National Park on August 7th.

A Northern Water Snake seen on the same day.

A duckweed coated Midland Painted Turtle on August 7th.