Jerrod and I went up to Ashland City yesterday to look for cottonmouths with Lisa and two guys from Austin Peay, and the adventure was a rousing success. Here's our species list for the day:

Fowler's Toad (Anaxyrus fowleri)
Northern Cricket Frog (Acris crepitans) [brown & green phases]
Green Treefrog (Hyla cinerea)
Spring Peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) [heard but not seen]
Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) [heard but not seen]
Green Frog (Lithobates clamitans melanotus)
Southern Leopard Frog (Lithobates sphenocephalus) [seen by Jerrod but not me]

Mole Salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum)
Red-spotted Newt (Notophthalmus v. viridescens)
Spotted Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus conanti)

Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus)
Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon sp.)
Ground Skink (Scincella laticeps)

Mississippi Ring-necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus stictogenys)
Eastern Black Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula nigra)
Copper-bellied Water Snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta)
Common Ribbon Snake (Thamnophis s. sauritus)
Smooth Earth Snake (Virginia valeriae)
Cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus)

The two guys from Austin Peay (Nathan & Seth) also brought back a Rough Green Snake (Opheodrys aestivus) that they had caught there earlier, so we got to see that on top of everything else.

The Fowler's Toad was not in Ashland City. It was actually in the middle of the road in front of Laura & Brandon's house in Murfreesboro... but it was still seen yesterday, so it gets included in the day's list :-)

And finally, I saw a frog that looked like either a Cope's Gray Treefrog (Hyla chrysoscelis) or a Bird-voiced Treefrog (Hyla avivoca), but I wasn't able to get a good look at it before it went into a hole under some tree roots. Ordinarily, I have no problem sticking my hands into holes to get critters out, but in cottonmouth country it seemed like it would be wiser just to leave it.