Photos A little bit of Texas

[Traveler]

So I recently came back to Houston after spending about 6 weeks in the hill country. As directed by Tude, I took pictures of stuff whenever I remembered to. So, here we go.

I did some fishing, nothing was big enough to keep though so I threw everything back(bluegill and catfish).
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I was lucky enough to be out there while deer were giving birth so I saw a lot of fawns.
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I saw twins too but didn't have my phone on me to get a picture
Here's some other random animals I found while wandering around.
A box turtle
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A little striped whiptail
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Lots of arachnids but I only took pictures of the best.
Some, what I guess to be, orb weavers. Huge!
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A striped bark scorpion that had babies so I kept them safe and fed them until their first molt.
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Here's a birds nest I found. I'm pretty sure they are painted bunting eggs. The males look awesome.
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I found tons of snakes but didn't get very many pictures. Here's what I got though.
A rat snake (I let this guy go after the photo-op)
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Some copperheads (I always kill venomous snakes)
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I found these remains out in the woods and thought of West, so I made a fan pic <3
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And when I got back to Houston I saw this while going down a bike path so I took a picture.
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Sorry if some of the pictures suck... but these were taken with an iphone.

 

[Kim Chee]

Nice shots (even with eyephone).

 

[landpirate]

I'm very jealous you got to see baby deer, but you can keep the snakes, spiders and scorpions! The most exciting thing I have spotted this summer is a kingfisher bird. Love the photos though, I never remember to take shots of the cool things I see.

 

[Traveler]

Thanks! I thought about taking some landscape shots too but hill country isn't visually impressive, so I stuck with animals and bugs. There were some really cool birds but there's no way I'd have been able to get a decent picture. The last picture is horrible so if you can't tell what to look for, it's an alligator that was just a few miles from downtown Houston.

 

[Tude]

Yay!! Great pics! And once again they make 'em bigger in TX. My sister lives in San Antonio and she's sent me pics of a huge walking stick that was longer than her full sized mail box --- and of a giant spider web - orb - that covered a five foot area and was strong like plastic <shudder - can't imagine WHAT built that>. hehe looks like you came across a lot of copperheads! Oh yeah - and that lizard is giving you the ultimate stink eye.

 

[Traveler]

The lizard was a little strange. After I let it go it tried following me around for a few minutes.

 

[Kim Chee]

I just want to let you know that the last shot is of two Dunlop Mountain Terrain tires

Awesome!

 

[Deleted member 2626]

awesome photos. nature pics are great. most people seem to frequent cities and take photos of themselves drinking a forty for attention. I liked this post a lot