A Baja Ratsnake we found late at night in Baja California Sur, showing some iridescence in the camera flash.
Baja Ratsnake
Tag: Mexico
Zebra-tailed Lizard On The Beach
One of the many Zebra-tailed lizards running around a popular beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Unlike about every other situation where we were wading through beach dune sands looking for lizards and snakes, this spot had a guy with a cooler selling ice-cold cervesas. This needs to be normalized in herpetology.
Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake
A large Mexican Pygmy Rattlesnake from southern Mexico several years ago.
Rosy Boa from Baja California
A Rosy Boa from coastal Baja California Norte. These snakes are common in the steep boulder hillsides with blue-green sea in the distance.
Central American Boa On The Crawl
I spotted this Central American Boa crawling along the upper edge of an eroded dirt wall in southern Mexico a few years back. It was a young boa, maybe 4 feet long. It seemed pretty busy searching along the vegetation transition, and allowed some easy photos.
Cerralvo Island Rattlesnake
Cerralvo Island Rattlesnake found near the beach on its namesake island a few years ago off the coast of Baja California Sur.
Isla El Muerto Speckled Rattlesnake
A Speckled Rattlesnake on a small, ridiculously hot Mexican island. In the sparse vegetation littered with bones of cetaceans and fish, these small rattlesnakes survive.
Speckled Rattlesnake in Basalt
A Speckled Rattlesnake (Crotalus mitchellii) we found in Baja California several years ago, doing its thing in exposed basalt and sand.
San Lucan Speckled Rattlesnake
San Lucan Speckled Rattlesnake with a friend that we found near the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.
