First Reptile for the Year

On a trip to central Kansas to visit family on Saturday, I added Common Grackle and Ring-necked Pheasant.  On the way home, a quick stop at Waconda State Park in Mitchell County yielded a very hungry and photogenic Virginia Opossum.  Monday morning, I found six Greater Prairie Chickens at Shawnee State Fishing Lake.  Later that day while doing work in the yard, I saw a skink sunning itself on a rock wall.  I believe it was a Five-lined Skink.  This brings my year total to 130 species.

Greater Prairie Chickens in the middle of a field South-west of Shawnee State Fishing Lake.

A Five-lined Skink enjoying the sun on Monday morning at my house.

 

Virginia opossum at Waconda State Park. Check out that pink nose.