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Thunder storms threatened but moved on.
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Yellow Bellied Pond Slider, . . before he slid.
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Prothonatary Warblers are the Robins of southern swamps
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The sun would break through on occasion to illuminate the dark places of the swamp.
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Swamp Canoing Short
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Carpet of Duckweed covers 4' deep blackwater
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Penny Royal reflection
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Fence Lizard at my camp.
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Mountain Stewartia
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5 Lined Skink and Virginia Creeper Vine.
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This was his ambush perch.
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Then you have to feel your way to another open lead.
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I had no intentention of handling him.
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Cottonmouth in dappled sunlight.
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He let me into macro-range. This is not zoomed or cropped.
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Creek reflections
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The magic of reflections helps one with their reflections.
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A Stinkpot, he became my paddling partner for a while.
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This one took off. It was a good 40" long.
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He stopped to check me out so I did the same.
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Cottonmouth set among reflections. Checkin me out!
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Cottonmouth
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I felt like I was being watched all day.
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She has young nearby she needs to return too.
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Yellow Bellied hatchling sunning on Spatterdock root
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On the way back to camp.
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In case you forgot what I look like. GPS stop, not quite lost, just confused.
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They like to sing from floating mats of vegetation (duckweed).
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Natural habitat shot