two frogs and a snake
ever go through periods where you just aren't thrilled by any of your work? i'm in one of those periods. but i try to get out and shoot, anyway. i have the scratched up, bloody mosquito bites to prove it.
here are two frogs (possibly the same specimen on two different nights) and a snake. see if you can identify the frog and snake species here...i'll buy a beer for the first person to identify either...but you gotta get to costa rica to collect your prize:
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I have no idea what species they are! But I sure can admire your work.
Was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
But I helped him a-drink his wine
And he always had some mighty fine wine
Singin' joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me...
Dang it, now that song will be stuck in my head till I fall asleep!
Google says it's a Rosenberg's tree frog (Boana rosenbergi). I can't take any credit since Google did all the work, and I can't get to Costa Rica to claim the prize anyway. 
Maybe someone else would like to have a go at the snake.
referred as a leaf snake. A Google search for that term only led to piles of Google suckage.
By apparent coincidence, buried among all the wrong answers, and the ones so far off topic you could only say "that's not right -- it's not even wrong", was a pic of a slender green snake known as a vine snake. Apparently the name is used for different species in eastern and western hemispheres, but they are very similar in appearance. Here's a pic:
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/29178-Oxybelis-fulgidus
Apparently, one of the defining characteristics is that it has fangs only in the rear of its mouth, so if you could check on that ...
*Lots* more pics here: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/29178-Oxybelis-fulgidus/browse_photos
I did live close to Lunt Street Beach in Rogers Park, Chicago in the 1970s. I go to the forest preserves nearby, Thatcher Woods and other woods nearby in Maywood Illinois.
Found a pic though
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/snowy-owls-spotted-near-montrose-bird-sanctuary-drawing-crowds-to-lakefront/
There used to be a good webcam of Gentoo penguins, but it has been down. Here is one I saved
