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'Green Frog Sitting on Northern Watersnake ' Photograph by Ryan Van Meter

Green Frog Sitting on Northern Watersnake

In Seasonal Vermont Stream

This Watersnake didn't flinch when the Green Frog landed on it. The stream carries runoff from heavy rains along the edge of a pasture and becomes hidden by tall grass by mid-summer.

31 August 2019

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Pawlet, Vermont, USA

Northern Watersnake

Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon
iNaturalist Observation
MARKED RESEARCH GRADE
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