Amarillo TX Page 2

In a May of 2010 trip the weather was warm enough to try some more Amarillo herping. Unfortunately, I came down with something within a day of arriving. Nevertheless, I soldiered on. The first foray was to Lake Meredith.

Everything seemed to be in bloom and my illness could have started as an allergic reaction to pollen from some plant.

Spider Milkweed Asclepias asperula

Lace Hedgehog Cactus Echinocereus reichenbachii

Trailing Krameria Krameria lanceolata

A number of Ornate Box Turtles Terrapene o. ornata were spotted in the Lake Meredith area. They were all beautiful like this little girl.

Then we did some herping around Amarillo. The first finds were some Woodhouse's Toads Bufo w. woodhousii.

I also found a nice Texas Horned Lizard Phrynosoma cornutum. Probably a common find, but something I really wanted to see.

Some night herping yielded more toads and a number of New Mexico Blind Snakes Leptotyphlops dissectus, listed in some sources as a subspecies of L. dulcis.

And a Plains Blackhead Snake Tantilla nigriceps.

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