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| i do a decent amount of field herping and decided to start a topic to discuss this almost gone herping season and past ones aswell also equipment like i use a big apple 42" snake hook with a midwest M1 40" tong with the super tong option and a 5 gallon bucket for the hots this year was light on hots for me only 1 which was a juvinile AZ black rattler but some good size gopher snakes and of course a bunch of garters and a couple striped whipsnakes
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| We still have the better half of fall. Since some salamander species up here breed during the fall. And all the rain will encourge some amphibian action. But ya, the reptiles are starting there hybrnative cycle. Anyway, it was a good herping season for me. I caought dozens of garter snakes. The largest herp i caught was a 3ft eastern milk snake, And a buntch of frogs and toads. Really cool season. You know what was really cool???? I got a butterfly net from the dollor store and i modified it so its half net half snake hook. And the snake hook can bend into diffren shapes to apple to the indivisual catch. It also has measurements on the side that go up to 14in. So i can measure the catch when i get it. Really cool season. I am highly antisipateing next spring. THE SPRING PEEPER CANT HIDE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I live by Xtreme rules. Ha, what can i say, some people have drugs, i have herps. At the end of the day we are all we've got. We ride together, we die together herp brothers for life.
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nice i live in AZ so we don't get alot in the way of amphibians but im hoping in a couple years to take a week or two and visit my familys property in Oklahoma which last time i was there found a ton of some sort of leopard frog and a large cotton mouth that i nearly stepped on and ended with him slithering away from between my legs scared me half to death lol
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I didn't see many venomous snakes this year, but there were lots of black rats! Black rats are the biggest snakes in VA (and the biggest in the US!). They like to stay around the house (and sometimes come IN the house! LOL  ). Some of them are around 6 feet long and 2 1/2 inches in diameter, are quite calm and don't mind handling much.
There are several five-lined skinks that live on the deck, and they're one of my favorites to photograph. I was especially happy to find a young female broad-headed skink living on the deck too--they aren't very common here so it was a nice find. She's only about 6 inches now, and it'd be neat to watch her grow to a foot long. I'm not sure how fast they grow.
We've got a pond down the driveway that filled up a bit earlier this year, and the frogs were deafening! I'm surprised I haven't found any queen snakes around the pond. Several years ago, I saw a rainbow snake over at my neighbor's house, it probably came from the pond across the road. Rainbow snakes supposedly don't live this far north, but it couldn't have been anything else!
Amphibians I saw this year were red-spotted newts (but strangely I saw no red efts!), gray tree frogs, green frogs, fowler's toads, and a juvenile female bullfrog.
The herping season is almost over here--it ends in October and I usually see herps again in April (or sometimes March).
Come visit and vote for Smaug, Flitz, Al, and the Quarter Babies at their Reptile Channel blogs!
1.0.0 Broad-Headed Skink (Smaug)
0.0.1 Black Rat Snake (Flitz)
1.0.0 Spotted Salamander (Al)
0.0.4 Eastern Painted Turtles (Quarter Babies)
0.1.0 cat (Sophie)
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