Reptiles of North Carolina

Looks like a Five-lined skink, Eastern mud turtle, and either an Eastern garter snake or De Kay snake

@Breckenridge have you seen all these species in the wild in North Carolina?

@csartie are you familiar with this book? It is something you might enjoy.

@UngulateNerd92 The mud turtle is the only one I haven't seen.

@Breckenridge ah ok. Which localities did you see the others?

@UngulateNerd92 Skinks and DeKay Snakes are incredibly common around where I live in the Piedmont. Other common reptiles around here are black rat snakes, green anoles, fence lizards, box turtles, yellow-bellied sliders, snapping turtles, copperheads, king snakes, water snakes, worm snakes, and the occasional timber rattlesnake.

@Breckenridge ah very nice. Do you have correlating photographs you can post here?

@UngulateNerd92
Here's a few

Green anole (Anolis carolinensis)
Racer (Coluber constrictor)

DeKay's snake/Brown snake (Storeria dekayi)

Eastern kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula)

Common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)

Broad-headed skink (Plestiodon laticeps)

@Breckenridge super cool, thank you for sharing these. I know that this is slightly off topic, but have you visited the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh? I ask because they have extensive herpetology collections there.