She's very shy. When she sees us she moves swiftly.
She coils in a sort of knot and thinks we might not spy her.
Look quickly - we only have a minute before she slithers silently away. She's scared of us.
See her stripes? She's Garter Snake.
What's that beside your boot?
It's a MUSHROOM!
Finally! We found mushrooms!
Cut them off carefully.
I can hardly wait to eat them!
Little Skink
Get a little closer and take a look.
Yes, it is alive!
Does it look like a doughnut? Yes! A very hard doughnut - it is really a rock.
Such sharp prickles! It's bark and thorns from a locus tree.
That was a box turtle shell. 
Just a little white egg all by itself.
It's getting warm here, and my friends and I all like to sit outside and enjoy the sun.
Here is a fellow I saw yesterday, a little brown lizard.
As he moved around, looking for bugs to eat, he started to look a little more green.
Then he got even greener.
By the time he had climbed up to this blue door, he had turned a beautiful bright green. Did you know that lizards can change color? We turn green when we're happy, or warm, or when we just feel like it.
Look how green this lizard got! He was looking around for a place to hide.
He finally found a hiding place in a crack between the door and the wall. If you look closely, you can just see the tip of his tail poking out in the corner.
Isn't it a nice tall one? 
It's not really a rock!
It's a rock-shaped cover to cover up the post with the electrical outlet on it.
Don't tell anyone. We'll see if we can fool someone else with it.
Yesterday I saw this big black bird stretching her wings in the sun.
It was the anhinga. She lives near the water like a duck, but she doesn't have waterproof feathers like a duck. The feathers on her body are little and fluffy. They look more like fur than feathers. Every time she gets wet, she has to come back up and air-dry.
Up close, it looks like she's wearing a mink stole and blue eyeshadow.
The drier she gets, the furrier she looks. Once she finishes drying her feathers, she's ready to dive into the water and catch a fish. And then she will be back in the sun, showing off her furry feathers.
If you look inside the hole, you can tell that this box is pretty full.
How can we clean it out? We'll take off the side.
Just look at that nest! 
There are lots of houses on the fence. We have to clean them all out.
We're going to put a new one up in this tree.
There it is - ready for a little bird to move in.
Of course, some birds make their own houses. Who do you think will live in this hole?
I walked down close to them to take a picture. Then I heard something behind me. "Quonk!" I turned around - there was the Drake, the daddy duck.
He was keeping an eye on me.
