Mastodawn

New video out!
The first from the May Midwest trip, returning to the Snake Road region before heading eastward into the Land Between Lakes for the first time. The impacts of this spring's heat wave and droughts were made obvious, but despite the very off-season activity levels there were still critters that made themselves known.
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/GCT9S5Cys9Y

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BuzzBot Jun 1

“Ember of the Forest”
Bear Creek, Pennsylvania
A flash of color beneath fallen leaves.
Sony a7 IV • Bear Creek, PA • 2026

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Carlton Carnivores May 30

New video out!
The last stretch of the April trip went across the southern border of Arizona, an area rife with cool critters...if sometimes difficult to herp, like it was to an extent after the heat wave the area experienced in March. However, even though animals were relatively few, the ones that did show up were spectacular...even if the final came with a major heartbreak.
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/I4yHiDelB7A

#herping #herpetology #snakes #lizards #reptiles #animals #wildlife #wildflowers #botany #biology #educational #nature #carltoncarnivores

Carlton Carnivores May 24

New video out!
The last official day I spent in California was not quite as slow as the previous two; three rattlesnakes showed up, as well as several lizards, a glossy snake, and many birds. But it wasn't the snakes that took the spotlight this round...it was one of the lizards, another that lives without limbs.
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/GGdVPyG8wgM
#herping #herpetology #snakes #lizards #reptiles #animals #wildlife #nature #birds #wildflowers #educational #biology

Carlton Carnivores May 16

New video out!
A short one today as the March heatwave made for a very, very dry coastal California and thus difficult to turn things up...but we got to highlight one of the region's most iconic reptiles!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/FnV1jD1W4aU

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My camera shoots fascists May 12

This was the big exciting find from my day #herping in Mojave National Preserve, my first chuckwalla! Wow they do live in the desert areas I'm used to hiking in, I've never actually seen one. After finding six other species of lizards in the same morning, I decided this would be my day to find a chuckwalla.

As I was driving through the Preserve, I spotted a low, basalt escarpment above a dry wash. Everything I'd read suggested that was perfect chuckwalla habitat.

I walked a quarter mile across the desert and then down to one end of the escarpment then all the way back up to the other and then on the way back down, I saw it! This handsome critter was surveying its domain from its perch about 15 feet up the cliff. Conveniently, it posed for a while before dipping out of sight.

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My camera shoots fascists May 10

Another "life lizard" from my day #herping near Kelso Dunes, Mojave National Preserve. Long nosed leopard lizard. It sat there letting me photograph it for a while, then got bored and disappeared into a hole.

#LizardReport #lizard #herps

Carlton Carnivores May 1

New video out!
The second full day in California ended up being slower...and I blame that in no small part on the March heatwave drying everything out. But despite that...still turned up what was possibly the best thing I could have found up in the mountains!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/pPgww6848YU

#herping #herpetology #snakes #lizards #reptiles #animals #wildlife #nature #educational #biology #zoology #carltoncarnivores

Carlton Carnivores Apr 25

New video out!
And...it's the first one from 2026! A proper visit to California, where the first full day in state gave up an exciting brand new lizard species, a very surprising predation event...and a species of snake I've been dying to see in the wild for years.
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/22U7CNYxpOU

#herping #herpetology #snakes #lizards #reptiles #animals #birds #wildlife #california #nature #educational #biology #zoology #carltoncarnivores

Carlton Carnivores Apr 18

New video out!
And it's the final installment from 2025...the driest I've yet encountered the eastern Plains region being, but despite that salamanders still showed up (including a new subspecies for the channel), as well as a new skink species!
Find the video here: https://youtu.be/-_mhxoh77I8

#herping #herpetology #snakes #lizards #reptiles #salamanders #amphibians #animals #wildlife #nature #educational #biology #zoology #carltoncarnivores