![]() ![]() However, this is the first time I've been able to photograph an adult. This is the Tropical Indigo Snake, who we've met several times in Mexico. My view from above enabled a close-up nicely showing the head's scale pattern - in case there's any doubt about what this species is - shown below: ![]() Whatever the case, the snake seemed to know that something was nearby, but apparently didn't see me, for after the above picture was taken he slithered around and passed right below me, not a foot away from my boot, providing the nice picture of his arrowhead-shaped head at the front of his massive body, shown below:Īt first glance I'd have sworn that the snake was eight or at least seven feet long, but now having him right below me I could see that he was only five or six feet long (1.7m). I think he was about to molt, the eye's covering was coming loose, and this caused the snake to be somewhat blind. Notice that the snake's eye looks a little cloudy. In one such spot I encountered the big snake shown below: If the Cenizo-blanketed ridge is high and dry enough, inside the thicket it may open up and have only gravel, clumpgrass and maybe a few cacti. Atop the rises sometimes you find a pure stand of Sweet Acacia, and sometimes if you penetrate them they give way to a shoulder-high thicket of light-gray-leafed bush known as Cenizo. From the ApNewsletter with notes taken two weeks earlier during a camping trip in Amistad National Recreation Area nine miles northwest of Del Rio, western Texas, on the border with MexicoĪt first glance Amistad's landscape looks flat, but when you're hiking you're constantly ascending or descending the shallow slopes of an unending network of gullies or arroyos. ![]()
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