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I worked at Hamilton Pool Nature Preserve here in Travis County for a couple of years, as a Park Technician. The job consisted of ensuring visitors abided our rules, and documenting any wildlife we observed. My camera was part of my uniform, and helped that documentation. Here's some of the shots I took:








Yes, the snake is crawling through a tunnel in the porous limestone.




Juvenile cottonmouth ...




...and a couple of adults





 
And some more ...

Diamond-backed watersnake, not to be confused with a diamondback rattlesnake ...:



... and a Western diamondback rattler, definitely not to be confused with a DBW!





Red squirrel:







Giant swallowtail butterfly in flight:



... and at rest:



A white-tail right near my driveway:



Another cottonmouth:



Hamilton Pool itself is a creek-fed limestone grotto that allows limited swimming. I can't find my favorite picture that I took myself, but here's one from le Internet of the grotto and waterfall:

 
I'm hoping to get some good wildlife photos this summer. I'll be heading through Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Idaho, Wyoming, and Hawaii.

Will be hitting up Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado National Monument, Arches National Park, Lassen Volcano National Park, Yosemite National Park, Sequoia National Park, Pearl Harbor, Arizona Memorial, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Yellowstone National Park, and Grand Teton National Park. Going to be pretty epic.

The last time we went out to Yellowstone and the Grand Teton's we saw quite a few Grizzly Bears.
 
Standard Blackie from tonight, saw four in total....


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....and finally, finally, I got my Grizz, standing by a standard telephone pole, across the highway from us. He challenged us once and then ran into the bush behind him but came back out seconds later. I forgot to roll the window down and the reflection of the flash darn near blinded me...








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Bear claw scariness.

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Another good night though on photo lite. In my over-zealousness to delete the poor shots, I deleted a shot of a White-tail buck. This guy was by the Pine River.


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Just north of Bijou Falls, this one was on the passenger side....


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....as I was checking my mirror for traffic I saw this one pop up and balance on the barrier behind us. The missus got it with her phone. By the time I got out with my camera, a semi went by and scared it off.


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Cow moose by a creek

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