Brett Nature Wildlife Images

09/28/2025

Check out this closeup of a grumpy Southern racer that I just uncovered. How we interact with snakes determines how they respond to us. I didn’t even get the musk treatment, or a nibble today! 🐍📸🌿

08/26/2025

📸vUrban snakes: Anything with a mouth has potential to bite someone. However, this little coastal red DeKay’s brown snake is safe to have around your city gardens. It’s completely harmless to pets and children, too! 🐍🌿

08/24/2025

📸 COASTAL REDS RULE‼️ The Carolina Pygmy rattlesnake is word renowned for their stunning red colors in coastal North Carolina. These diminutive pit vipers ARE venomous, however they’re also easily avoidable due to their small size. Mutual respect is key! 🐍🌿

08/22/2025

Everybody’s living for the weekend, and I can’t wait to get back outside to do this again‼️

📸 What do you think about this stunning Carolina Pygmy rattlesnake that I shared with my friend at the NCWRC? 🐍🌿

08/17/2025

Let’s see if my amazing followers know if this aberrant snake from Florida is actually venomous or NOT⁉️

Just found this on my lanai, any help would be appreciated!
Tampa Florida

08/17/2025

Here I am, on the road again…

📸 Check out this stunning Carolina pygmy rattlesnake we found on a rural highway in coastal North Carolina yesterda ! 🐍🌿

08/08/2025

Just a little is enough‼️ My friends have been enjoying productive field herping adventures in North Carolina due to the recent cold front. Unfortunately, I can no longer drive because Homonymous Hemianopia causes wild hallucinations. However, my sweetheart took me on an impromptu “rocket run” to explore the Pamlico Sound area last weekend, and she spotted this stunning beauty crossing a rural highway! 🙌

📸 Check out the heat-seeking pits in this macro zoom iPhoto As always, venomous snakes are best admired from a safe distance, incluing this Carolina Pygmy rattlesnake. Mutual respect is key! 🐍🌿

08/05/2025

TWO’S COMPANY‼️ I’ve been teaching my younger friend, Patrick, about field herping in coastal North Carolina recently. Last weekend he Face Timed me while observing this newborn Carolina Pygmy rattlesnake.

Suddenly, another car approached, and he had to let me go to ensure no harm would come to the colorful neonate. Minutes later he rings back, and my longtime friend and early mentor pops onto my screen. Rusty hadn’t seen any snakes, yet!

The irony of my “student” helping a master herpetologist find this little beauty was extremely satisfying. It also demonstrated that we’re never too young or old to learn new things about herpetology. As alway, mutual respect is key for all wildlife encounters in nature, including tiny venomous snakes too! 🐍📸🌿

07/31/2025

Here’s another beauty from the Coastal Plains of North Carolina‼️ The scientific name of both the Canebrake (or Timber rattlesnake )is Crotalus horridus. Depending on the region of the United States they are found these venomous snakes may have other accepted common names, too. But Mutual respect is key for all venomous pit vipers, and they should be admired from a safe distance! 🐍📸🌿

07/28/2025

Sliding into Monday‼️ I hope everyone had a “great” weekend! My daughter, Hadley, took me up North and helped me check a few things off my bucket list:

If you’ve never been to Lake Drummond and/or Merchant’s Millpond in the Great Dismal Swamp then you should make plans to visit these incredible wildlife viewing areas sooner than later. You delimyely will be in for a visual feast!

📸 It was too hot to walk to her community swimming pool, or find any snakes last weekend. But, I found a Ground Skink on her 2nd had such a blast watching Wild Robot! 🌿🤖♥️

07/25/2025

LET’S GO‼️ DrewWild is another rising star of snake appreciation, education and awareness. I hope you you love his amazing photography as much as I do, too… 🐍♥️

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07/25/2025

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder‼️Although there is no universal standard of what is beautiful in nature, all pit vipers have extraordinary camouflaged patterns, including this stunning Copperhead.

📸 Mutual respect is key for ALL wildlife encounters, and enomous snakes are best admired from a distance. Copperheads can be found throughout North Carolina. 🐍🌿