What is your favorite NATIVE reptile?

I love the eastern timber rattlesnake. Unfortunately I have not seen any in the wild hereabouts, but I know they're still out there.

http://home.alltel.net/tesinc/EndSpecies.htm
I also love the garter snakes that make their home in the basement and inside the walls of our house. You can even find their shed skins in the attic crawl space!
For amphibians; it is tough! I adore our native frogs (leos, greens, bulls, the treefrogs) but my fave is the wood frog. They are just awesome and every spring I hike back in the woods and check out their vernal pools. I love toads too, and the spotted salamanders and others.. Ah I can't pick!

I love fox snakes, but they aren't native to here. so i would have to say snapping turtles! people think they are ugly and mean etc etc, i think they are awsome tanks, that need to be understood not hated, but thats just me!:D

~mike

Indigos and Black Racers.
I love them. I've always been facinated by black racers, so fast, so elegant then they're gone in an instant.
Native reptiles is what got me interested in the ones I keep. Love them all!
Wolfy

I love garter snakes. I just think they are cute, and I have a bunch around my house.

Heres mine. I love finding copperheads.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ng/copper3.jpg

My second would have to be all finding all the different salamanders we have around here.

It's a tie between black rat snakes and blue racers, though I've never actually seen any wild around here. Snake wise all I've seen are garters and watersnakes for the most part. I plan to do alot more snake searching this spring and summer.

I love Cooperheads. I hope to one day actually have one in my collection. (that would be the one and only hot).

And I just adore Eastern Black Indigo's ( another one I will have in my collection )

Here is my second favorite to see out and about around here:

http://danielhillreptiles.com/FIELD%...oxturtle16.jpg

mine would be the Blanding's Turtle as they are a rare find here in mi

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Originally Posted by gncz73

mine would be the Blanding's Turtle as they are a rare find here in mi

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I spent last summer researching blanding's in IL. they are awsome little guys to watch and have real personalities.

~mike