I had a short walk at the Heard Museum on Saturday to look for fall migrants on a beautiful cool morning. The biirding was slower than expected, and I didn’t have any bird photo ops, although I managed to add a Yellow-breasted Chat to my list near the end of my walk. While on the boardwalk trail through the wetlands, I found several Diamondback Water Snake, and I managed to photograph several of them as they basked in the morning light. These snakes are non-venomous and are relatively common around lakes and wetlands in the North Texas area. The pattern on their back gives them their name, but the snakes color tends to get darker with age, which obscures the pattern.
