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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A light-colored Western Diamondback (Crotalus atrox), observed along the coast in west-central Sonora. The ubiquitous rattlesnake of the American southwest, it also has an extensive range in northern Mexico. #herps #snakes #rattlesnakes #NaturePhotography 🌿

An angled-down image of a rattlesnake coiled on rusty red rocks and facing left. The snake's ground color is a pale tan, overlaid with a series of diamond-shaped blotches from neck to tail. The blotches are made up of darker brown scales bordered with brownish-cream scales. Many of the scales on the snake are unicolored, giving a distinct edge to the patterning. The tan head has creamy yellow stripes on either side of the eye, slanting diagonally to the jaw. The image captures the rattlesnake's tongue, forked and black.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've never felt sad when finishing a seasonal job or any job for that matter before, but this one was truly special and I got pretty emotional after we got done. It really was an awesome experience.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I spent the last four months in Arizona working in Flat-tailed Horned Lizard surveys, a protected species I hadn't seen before this year but grew on me to become my favorite lizard. Awesome project, awesome animals, awesome friends to work alongside with, it was a great time. #herps 🦎

A Flat-tailed Horned Lizard in the shade chilling on sand. This species is light colored with their characteristic black stripe down their back. They have two pretty bong horns on the back of the head.

Another Flat-tailed Horned Lizard on sand.

Another Flat-tailed Horned Lizard chilling on the sand early in the morning.

A baby Flat-tailed Horned Lizard. They usually have a lot more white than adults. They are very small, around 3-4cm.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A stunning Gila Monster found earlier this month in Southwestern Arizona! I didn't think I'd see any of them this year at all, so I was extremely happy to see such a beautiful individual! These lizards are something truly special! #herps 🦎

A Gila Monster hiding under a lot of branches. This lizard is orange and black with very big scales. Venomous and protected on top of that, so no handling was done.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Lifer Chihuahuan Nightsnake found late at night during a very hot summer night. This was one of my main targets for the night but didn't have a ton of hope of finding them, and literally on my last pass I was able to find not one but two of them! Really cool little snakes! #herps 🐍

A Chihuahuan Nightsnake chilling on a paved road. This species is light gray with some darker brown patterning on their back. Vertical pupil meaning they are mostly nocturnal.

Another Nightsnake, much smaller individual with lot more closer together patterning. Also on a paved road.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A cool looking California/Desert Kingsnake intergrade I found crossing a dirt road one night in Southern Arizona. This was definitely the highlight from an otherwise uneventful trip, an absolute gem of a snake! #herps 🐍

A picture of an intergrade of California Kingsnake and Desert Kingsnake chilling on a dirt road. This species is black with some dark yellow stripes along their body.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A really nice looking juvenile Long-nosed Leopard Lizard found a few weeks ago! I don't come across these guys too often but when I do they usually bolt so fast, so it was nice that this guy sat still long enough to snap a picture! #herps 🦎

A picture of a Long-nosed Leopard Lizard chilling on sand. This lizard has a long tail and they are mainly yellow with orange spots on their back and some slight black marks on their tail and head.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ohhhh coool! I love them! I haven’t seen too many Whipsnakes, and most I’ve seen have gotten away super fast before I can snap a picture lol

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nope, this is a harmless species.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Another beautiful Colorado Shovel-nosed Snake from Southwestern Arizona last week! We've been seeing a good number of them recently at work which is really nice, I love seeing this species, they are unbelievably pretty! #herps 🐍

A picture of a Colorado Shovel-nosed Snake chilling on sand. This snake is light yellow/white with black and orange bands. They are also fairly small snakes.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A beautiful Long-nosed Snake found crossing a sandy road this weekend! I love this species so much, maybe I've said this before, but they are one of the prettiest snakes out here for sure! #herps 🐍

A Long-nosed Snake chilling on some sand. This snake is black with lots of yellow speckling and orange stripes. Real pretty!

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Lifer Hopi Rattlesnake from last week! Made a rocket run to northeastern Arizona to try find this species and I'm glad in paid off since it was quite the drive for me haha. Beautiful snake! #herps 🐍

A picture of a Hopi Rattlesnake on the road, this snake is light brown with darker brown patterning on their back. They also have a darker brown "mask" just under the eye.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Second day of the marathon is on the way! Come in and watch some runs (in spanish) and consider donating for the victims of the earthquake in Colombia. www.twitch.tv/speedrunsesp...

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The marathon's of course gonna be in Spanish, but it'd be awesome if even through language barrier you all could stop by and maybe consider donating 💙 The schedule's here: oengus.io/marathon/Par... We have a ton of super talented runners participating.

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Oengus is a free tool to manage your speedrunning marathons from submissions to schedule, available as a hosted service.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The Speedruns Colombia staff in collaboration with Speedruns Español have decided to set up an emergency marathon in order to raise funds for the victims of the earthquake in Colombia. This will be streamed here starting in 15 hours: www.twitch.tv/speedrunsesp...

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SpeedrunsEspanol - Twitch

Canal oficial de la comunidad hispana de speedrunning: SpeedrunsEspañol. Búscanos en Twitter: @speedrunespanol , y Discord: http://discord.gg/SRE .

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

7.4 magnitude earthquake in Colombia today. Been messaging family and friends and so far everything’s goof with them but that’s really scary. Sending all the love to everyone affected by this, hoping the regions closer to the epicenter are doing okay.

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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Mike Davidson, a tour guide in Big Bend, told Newsweek; "They might as well send a bulldozer through the graveyard where my parents are buried or something like that. It hits me very strongly." Soulless, wretched people are responsible for this. They have to go. www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-p...

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Bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park, sparking fury in Texas

Video and photos show work underway in Big Bend National Park, the location of a border project which has sparked bipartisan fury.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Never thought about that but yeah! Lots of Halloween colors on this species :D

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Another stunning Colorado Shovel-nosed Snake found earlier this week. Always a pleasure to see these little guys, they are so pretty! #herps 🐍

A picture of a Colorado Shovel-nosed Snake chilling on sand. This individual is light yellow with orange and black stripes along their body.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I’m not the most hopeful tbh. The continued construction of the walls in Arizona is also gut wrenching :/ they really just don’t care.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Funny enough, that lizard booked it off the road really fast haha. I was impressed by the speed.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It’s the redefinition of “harm” in the act. Excluding habitat destruction from the definition. So yeah basically gives them free reign to destroy protected species habitat like it’s nothing

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For Trump voters, know that the death of these living creatures is in your hands as well. Hope it’s worth it for some useless data centers and the dumbest border wall in existence.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Everything that is happening surrounding the Endangered Species Act is an absolute disgrace. This has been said a lot already but it’s a reminder that these politicians and billionaires don’t give a fuck about their country or their people.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Another lifer for me! This massive Regal Horned Lizard happened to be on the road right at sunset. This was definitely one of my top lizard species to find in Arizona after failing to do so last year, and what an unexpected way to come across one. #herps 🦎

A picture of a Regal Horned Lizard on the road. This lizard is very wide and flat, mostly yellow with their characteristic "crown" of horns on the back of the head.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I was able to see a few of them last year while at work. I don’t have great pictures of them admittedly because I almost never carried my camera, but they are awesome lizards I love them :)

A picture of a Collared Lizard chilling on a rock. Lots of little white dots on their body.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My lifer Desert Kingsnake found crossing the road in a remote area of southern Arizona. One of my top species I wanted to see while out west. The pattern on this snake is absolutely gorgeous, just wow! #herps 🐍

A picture of a Desert Kingsnake on the road. This species is black with tons of yellow speckling and a black head with some speckling near their nose.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Nah, they are a pretty chill snake c:

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My lifer Black-necked Garter Snake found in southern New Mexico last weekend! I have no idea why this species took me so long to come across, but I'm very happy to have finally seen one! #herps 🐍

A picture of a Black-necked Garter Snake on some wet rocks. This species is mostly black on their back with a yellow/orange line down their back. Has a little "black neck" behind the head.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

An insanely beautiful Long-nosed Snake I found crossing a busy road on my way back from a productive herping night. I'm a huge fan of this species, the colors are ridiculous, certainly one of the prettiest snakes out in Arizona and a species I'm always happy to see! #herps 🐍

A Long-nosed Snake posing over sand. This individual is orange and black with some yellow spots on the sides of their body and on the head. Absolutely beautiful individual.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

They are! Nice picture, love that little guy!

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

An adult and a baby Blainville's Horned Lizard @evowo.bsky.social spotted while we were hiking a new area for both of us in SoCal! This was my first time seeing this species, so I was really stoked about it, they are awesome lizards! #herps 🦎

An adult Blainville's Horned Lizard chilling on sand. This lizard is very light brown with some red-ish hues. Small horns on the back of the head and black eyes.

A baby Blainville's Horned Lizard chilling on a rock. This baby had also some red hues and some small splotches of black.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Love me some Garter Snakes, the ones in AZ are actually some of the species I want to see the most.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A STUNNING Colorado Shovelnose Snake found right at sunrise today! I've been lucky enough to see a few of these during the past week, but this particular individual has soooo much orange, crazy beautiful. #herps 🐍

A picture of a Sonoran Shovelnose Snake on sand with some rocks around. This species base color is yellow with complete black bands and incomplete orange bands with an orange face.

A top down picture of the same snake, really shows the orange of this individual.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It was like 88F or something like that, can’t exactly remember, but yeah pretty warm for 4am

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Mike Pingleton @somuchpingle.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today is #WorldSnakeDay and I'm featuring my favorite venomous serpent, the Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). Historically, this snake occupied much of the eastern US, and still thrives in protected habitat. This golden specimen is from central Indiana. #herps #snakes #NaturePhotography 🌿

An angled-down image of a rattlesnake in a wide coil among fallen leaves on the forest floor, and facing right. This is a closeup image of the snake's head and portions of the upper body - the tail and lower body are not in the image. The snake's ground color is a golden yellow, and there are dark gray chevrons on the body that start at the neck. The head is unmarked and golden yellow, as is the iris. The pupil is dark and elliptical. Leaves of brown and orange and rusty red are scattered about the snake, and dappled sunlight illuminates the snake here and there.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A real pretty little Mojave Rattlesnake found while hiking just before sunrise out in the desert of SW Arizona! #herps 🐍

A Mojave Rattlesnake chilling on sand. This snake is light brown/yellow-ish, with slightly darker diamond patterns down their back.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My lifer Banded Rock Rattlesnake found a few weeks ago in Southern Arizona! This was one of my main targets from a trip to the sky islands, and managed to find a few of them! Although this individual was the only one I was able to photograph, the others got away. #herps 🐍

A Rock Rattlesnake on a red rock. This snake is gray with black bands on their body as well as a a bit of speckling.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Thanks for 900 Followers! Here's a Sidewinder from yesterday to celebrate! 😄 #herps 🐍

A Sidewinder partly burrowed in the sand. This guy is light gray with some slightly darker gray patterning on their back. Has small little horns above their eyes.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Surprised it took this long but I finally got to see my first Skink in the west coast last weekend in SoCal! @evowo.bsky.social and I went to check a new spot and managed to find this beautiful Western Skink during a cloudy morning. #herps 🦎

A Western Skink. This species is dark brown with light colored stripes going from just above the eyes all the way down their back to their tail. Little legs and long tail (blurry in the picture).

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Oh yeah, I remember the Levis Stadium and how they covered their name up, that was some funny stuff, it looked terrible

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

But yes FIFA does suck, I’ve been using VPN to even watch games because I don’t wanna give them a single penny

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Oh nvm you probably meant something else lol I thought you meant altitude

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

There’s games being played in Mexico City, so surely that’s not the reason

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If you have any good roads near you, go for it! If you haven’t cruised before, just be safe about it, don’t put yourself in danger.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A real pretty Tiger Rattlesnake found crossing the road late at night last week! This is only the second individual of this species I've found, and the first one I have road cruised. #herps 🐍

A picture of a Tiger Rattlesnake on the road. This snake is light brown with darker brown stripes on their back. Tiny head and big rattle.

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My most unexpected lifer from last month was this stunner of a Madrean Mountain Kingsnake I found on the road! One of the species I wanted to see the most while in Arizona, yet I had no idea how to even look for them since they are so elusive. I got super lucky this time! #herps 🐍

A picture of a Madrean Mountain Kingsnake on a paved road. This snake is red with white bands and some black as well on their back. Their face is mostly black with a yellow nose.

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