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by Porter
August 24th, 2023, 3:32 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: The year of exploration. 2018 review.
Replies: 15
Views: 14313

Re: The year of exploration. 2018 review.

From a Californian, temporarily (31 years) exiled to Louisiana: words cannot describe. Friends of mine and I got some great photos, including what we called "habitat shots". like your Kern Canyon Slender with the mountainous backdrop. All were taken with slide film, using a 28 mm polarize...
by Porter
August 12th, 2023, 2:37 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

I mean, I don’t “like”’those girls… I just “like” those girls. I just mean… I don’t hate those girls.
Jeez, Louise, Papa Chino… monkey up done lubbed La Chongo, but not my monkey Capeesh? ?

I’m so done with these goddamn robots :sleep:
by Porter
August 12th, 2023, 2:19 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Laid** not lay

Past tense, as a passed tents…. What has scents, has sense enough to save cents up, till the stench ends 💸
by Porter
August 12th, 2023, 2:13 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

And Rest assured…. ☝️ it was the karma police that lay the law down upon Richard Porter. Well deserved And rightly so. Also, Chad Lane’s a pretty nice guy. And so is that other prick. And I FN love Brian Hubbs. He left a voicemail in my cell phone back around 2014-ish (?) that I can’t go into the de...
by Porter
August 12th, 2023, 1:54 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Find a mate** not maid lol I can’t imagine all the confusion that made… :roll: goodnight :sleep:
by Porter
August 12th, 2023, 1:46 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

I had a purpose. And that purpose has been fulfilled, to the best of my knowledge. I’ll try to teleport a video series of further explorations every now and then. But if I don’t find old ass Rex a maid soon, he may destroy all of Tokyo.

✌🏻
by Porter
August 12th, 2023, 1:41 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Oh, believe me I definitely feel alienated… 👽 :lol: There’s plenty of viewers. And it’s all the same people who used to post on here for years before I ever heard of the place. There’s a select few that won’t post here because they don’t want me to leave comments on their post. I am the worst person...
by Porter
August 8th, 2023, 1:25 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Please stop collecting mountain kingsnakes! There are enough in captivity to keep them circulating for the end of eternity. Please leave the wild ones in the wild.

Thank you 👽 (message from another dimension)
by Porter
August 8th, 2023, 1:17 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
Replies: 7
Views: 3090

Re: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝

How I was able to make these videos :thumb: :


ImageIMG_8026 by Artistic Memoirs of Field Herping, on Flickr
by Porter
August 8th, 2023, 1:14 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53102070395_c57b43fc10_z.jpg IMG_8027 by Artistic Memoirs of Field Herping , on Flickr Map of burned mountain kingsnake nurseries that will no longer be producing more mountain kings: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53101857979_576646c2e9_z.jpg IMG_8029 by Ar...
by Porter
August 6th, 2023, 12:13 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

And there was no goddamn way I was going back to look for one of damn those things. One and done :sleep:
by Porter
August 6th, 2023, 12:11 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Also, I should mention… we weren’t gonna find them out in Kingssnake that day unless I did what I did. Way too effing dry
by Porter
August 6th, 2023, 11:56 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Me… I can’t stop looking for a banded California kingsnake, yellow dorsal stripe, with red valley gartersnake blotches down the side :crazyeyes:

We all have our vices…
by Porter
August 6th, 2023, 11:50 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Also, I just have to write this to the lurker poacher-collector types out there…. Don’t go breaking apart logs looking for mountain kingsnakes. Here’s what happens…. Those logs are where they lay their eggs.. you should think of the logs as a nursery. It’s because they retain the moisture in the mid...
by Porter
August 6th, 2023, 11:13 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Coast mountain zonata… not Sierra zonata**
by Porter
August 6th, 2023, 11:10 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Find your old posts and repost
Replies: 19
Views: 9998

Re: Find your old posts and repost

Scott, first California kingsnake I ever found as a kid was from peeling back the under-hanging bark of an old dead tree that had been struck by lightning. Going after a bluebelly that ran in there, I think. I ended up finding my first mountain king, by thinking of that childhood Cal king lifer, and...
by Porter
August 1st, 2023, 12:14 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: The year of exploration. 2018 review.
Replies: 15
Views: 14313

Re: The year of exploration. 2018 review.

I also have an additional request…. In case people don’t know, Chad puts in serious work for his photography. I thought I was tough, until I went in herping with Chad lol He’s has calves like Popeye and can scale a mountain like a Billygoat. One time he took me out to one of Brian Hubbs’s old spots ...
by Porter
July 30th, 2023, 6:39 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
Replies: 7
Views: 3090

Re: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝

by Porter
July 30th, 2023, 6:36 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
Replies: 7
Views: 3090

Re: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝

Well, it's taking forever for HD and 4k quality to process and I'm getting tired... So, I'm just gonna post it now Here is the final installment of the full moon series. As I mentioned before with the owls, because of all the extra snow in the Sierras, the yearly animal patterns were thrown off and ...
by Porter
July 30th, 2023, 5:33 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: The year of exploration. 2018 review.
Replies: 15
Views: 14313

Re: The year of exploration. 2018 review.

I don't agree with the composition on some of these 🤨 (as you know)... some are off balance and it bugs me Lol But, all of them have an emotional quality and beauty that is all your own. Great stuff and always a treat to see :thumb: I do have to say... I think those ensatina getting fresh are probab...
by Porter
July 9th, 2023, 1:04 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
Replies: 7
Views: 3090

Re: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝

After I got home, my pet dino Rex got pretty ornery over the calculated go-with-the-flow success of my full moon adventure. So, I promised to take him along for the next enlighting experience. I decided to double down and try our luck at a different locale. Although it seemed to be the thoughts of c...
by Porter
July 9th, 2023, 8:51 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: First El Dorado County Speckled King?
Replies: 0
Views: 4526

First El Dorado County Speckled King?

Question for the California kingsnake people... I have not read Brian's book, however I vaguely remember a convo I had with him about California speckled kingsnake morphs of Yolo county. I don't remember exactly what was said...but I want to say I remember Hubbs telling me that kingsnakes color fade...
by Porter
June 29th, 2023, 4:18 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
Replies: 7
Views: 3090

Re: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝

by Porter
June 29th, 2023, 6:44 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
Replies: 7
Views: 3090

Re: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝

by Porter
June 28th, 2023, 8:49 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
Replies: 7
Views: 3090

Re: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝

by Porter
June 28th, 2023, 8:45 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
Replies: 7
Views: 3090

I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝

Let me start by saying, careful planning went into making this video session look like it takes place this upcoming weekend. But the truth of the matter is…. You’re never gonna know when I filmed it 🤨👉 The great Chad Lane once said, “Richard, you gotta be careful of poachers if you’re gonna post you...
by Porter
June 28th, 2023, 7:18 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: January 2023 Herping in the Southeast
Replies: 5
Views: 3764

Re: January 2023 Herping in the Southeast

Good job on the photography :beer:
chad ks wrote: June 25th, 2023, 9:58 am Great post! Let’s get the forum running again.
What he said
by Porter
June 5th, 2023, 1:12 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Questions about Coluber constrictor mormon
Replies: 7
Views: 3527

Re: Questions about Coluber constrictor mormon

In my country (336 observations in 15 years, 2008-2022), when I graph snakes per mile of survey route by hour of day, racers most commonly observed between 1800 and 2000 hours. Wow! I’m amazed. I seen a hellava lot of racers and I can’t think of a single “active” afternoon sighting, ever. In the no...
by Porter
May 16th, 2023, 10:15 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Massachusetts Timber
Replies: 13
Views: 4317

Re: Massachusetts Timber

One last thing and I promise I’ll shut the hell up 🤐 This is a Randall Carlson timeline of catastrophic events. He made this to show how many times the earth has suffered a catastrophic event, powerful enough to wipe out the human race. So, I’m applying this to snakes… or just reptiles and amphibian...
by Porter
May 16th, 2023, 10:19 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Massachusetts Timber
Replies: 13
Views: 4317

Re: Massachusetts Timber

One final supplemental thought. Best displayed in an illustration.:

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Vitamin water = 🐍 = Mineral water
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by Porter
May 16th, 2023, 9:04 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Massachusetts Timber
Replies: 13
Views: 4317

Re: Massachusetts Timber

And just because I know how difficult this is to swallow for some of you… (get it, that was a snake joke) and because I have a bad habit of deleting things I’ve written because I think it’s embarrassing Someone (sometimes myself ) or I feel guilty for taking the credit for of all of this…. Let me re...
by Porter
May 16th, 2023, 8:30 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Massachusetts Timber
Replies: 13
Views: 4317

Re: Massachusetts Timber

One last reminder, just to remind everyone, that I was the one who thought it first, before anyone… the reason morphs occur in Delta areas where there is salt water influence (the kingsnakes in LA, the striped gopher snakes in Vacaville, striped sidewinders where is salt water once was, blackbelly k...
by Porter
May 15th, 2023, 2:28 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Massachusetts Timber
Replies: 13
Views: 4317

Re: Massachusetts Timber

Just recently, I was watching my daily dose of NKA skateboarding on YouTube… and an algorismized video popped up in my watching options of Adrian Slade talking about rattlesnakes at a rattlesnake den. As she was dishing out knowledgeable information to the audience, she mentioned that female rattles...
by Porter
November 5th, 2022, 11:41 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: A much better video
Replies: 1
Views: 1928

A much better video

This randomly popped up on my phone today… and I realized after watching it, there was good purpose for it to be displayed here:

by Porter
November 5th, 2022, 10:30 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Just Herping - An artistic journey into the mind of boredom induced road cruising
Replies: 16
Views: 2484

Re: Just Herping - An artistic journey into the mind of boredom induced road cruising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr-H4-wUkuI The heartwarming suspense filled dramatic series, The Mattress is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Click the link below to purchase your very own boxset of the epic cult classic! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/trex-dinosaur-bed-with-free-blanket-kids-beds...
by Porter
September 4th, 2022, 3:50 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
Replies: 11
Views: 2563

Re: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?

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by Porter
September 2nd, 2022, 7:54 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
Replies: 11
Views: 2563

Re: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?

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by Porter
August 31st, 2022, 6:53 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
Replies: 11
Views: 2563

Re: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?

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by Porter
August 30th, 2022, 8:03 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
Replies: 11
Views: 2563

Re: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?

chris_mcmartin wrote: August 28th, 2022, 8:17 pm I don't know what it is, but those scales on the side view look pristine.
Chris, what do you mean by pristine? … I thought I knew what you were referring to when I first read it, but now I’m not sure lol

’Split by genetics, and not by damage to the scale…?’
by Porter
August 30th, 2022, 5:47 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
Replies: 11
Views: 2563

Re: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?

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by Porter
August 30th, 2022, 5:40 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
Replies: 11
Views: 2563

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by Porter
August 24th, 2022, 12:57 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
Replies: 11
Views: 2563

Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?

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by Porter
August 9th, 2022, 5:20 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: First Arizona trip - and the Follow Up
Replies: 20
Views: 3188

Re: First Arizona trip - and the Follow Up

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by Porter
August 9th, 2022, 4:49 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: First Arizona trip - and the Follow Up
Replies: 20
Views: 3188

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by Porter
July 18th, 2022, 7:51 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: The Story of Old Blind Melan
Replies: 0
Views: 3405

The Story of Old Blind Melan

This snake was found crossing a dirt road one scorching hot evening in the middle of July, 2014. California was going through a severe drought and fungal disease had been reported as being observed on several gartersnakes. Including Thamnophis gigas. Also, causing the death of many water fowl. Becau...
by Porter
July 11th, 2022, 3:10 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: May 2022 - Part 1: Oregon with Richard
Replies: 11
Views: 2433

Re: May 2022 - Part 1: Oregon with Richard

Porter, Have you watched these videos? If not I highly recommend you do so. I first checked them out a few years ago but then also re-watched them as a "refresher" of sorts right before my trip ha ha. https://youtu.be/MXrUrZi94Yw I just watched both :thumb: Interesting stuff..! I have a b...