by Susquehannock Wildlife Society | Jun 15, 2020 | Feature, News
We just shared this message recently but with two similar rescue calls coming in back to back this week, we thought we would highlight this issue again. Last Thursday we received a call from Clinton Johnson and his family who found this Eastern Rat Snake tangled in...
by Susquehannock Wildlife Society | Jun 15, 2020 | Feature, News
We never know what call we’re going to get when our hotline rings and this one from Friday was certainly unexpected. Just after freeing a snake from deer exclusion netting the day before we got this report of a “Copperhead” entangled in erosion...
by Susquehannock Wildlife Society | Jun 6, 2020 | Feature, News
As more of us are beginning to enjoy recreational time near the water, we will undoubtedly start getting false reports of venomous Cottonmouth Water Moccasins in our region of Maryland and states to the northeast of us. There has never been a confirmed, documented...
by Susquehannock Wildlife Society | Jun 6, 2020 | Feature, News
Today we wanted to highlight two easily confused local frog species that you will likely hear calling in almost any wetland on a warm night. Although the bull frog can grow larger, a smaller individual can appear almost identical to an adult green frog at first...
by Susquehannock Wildlife Society | Jun 6, 2020 | Feature, News
Sometimes the snake eats the bird and sometimes the bird eats the snake. We thought it might be interesting to highlight the relationship between snakes and birds which might not often be thought of. In one week we discovered an eastern rat snake searching for prey in...