I was walking along a dike with Terry Farrell, Melissa Pilgrim, and a few Stetson University students looking for more fun herps to go along with the pygmy rattlesnakes we had seen earlier. Melissa spotted this speedster heading off through the water, and after a few minutes of splashing and chasing, she and Terry managed to corral it.

I noticed this ribbonsnake posed perfectly still just off the trail we were walking down. The small white bar just in front of the eye is a characteristic of ribbonsnakes that distinguishes them from their close relatives the gartersnakes.

Corkscrew Swamp is just crawling with snakes (woo hoo!). Of the three ribbonsnakes we saw, this one was posed most nicely. The other two were crawling around in the swamp, too far from the boardwalk to get a decent picture.