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- August 24th, 2023, 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The year of exploration. 2018 review.
- Replies: 15
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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...
- August 12th, 2023, 2:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
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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
Jeez, Louise, Papa Chino… monkey up done lubbed La Chongo, but not my monkey Capeesh? ?
I’m so done with these goddamn robots
- August 12th, 2023, 2:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
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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
Past tense, as a passed tents…. What has scents, has sense enough to save cents up, till the stench ends
- August 12th, 2023, 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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...
- August 12th, 2023, 1:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
Re: Find your old posts and repost
Find a mate** not maid lol I can’t imagine all the confusion that made… goodnight
- August 12th, 2023, 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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.
- August 12th, 2023, 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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...
- August 8th, 2023, 1:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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)
Thank you (message from another dimension)
- August 8th, 2023, 1:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3158
- August 8th, 2023, 1:14 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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...
- August 6th, 2023, 12:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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
- August 6th, 2023, 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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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
- August 6th, 2023, 11:56 am
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- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
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Me… I can’t stop looking for a banded California kingsnake, yellow dorsal stripe, with red valley gartersnake blotches down the side
We all have our vices…
We all have our vices…
- August 6th, 2023, 11:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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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...
- August 6th, 2023, 11:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
Re: Find your old posts and repost
Coast mountain zonata… not Sierra zonata**
- August 6th, 2023, 11:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find your old posts and repost
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10153
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...
- August 1st, 2023, 12:14 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The year of exploration. 2018 review.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14417
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 ...
- July 30th, 2023, 6:39 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3158
- July 30th, 2023, 6:36 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3158
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 ...
- July 30th, 2023, 5:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The year of exploration. 2018 review.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14417
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...
- July 9th, 2023, 1:04 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3158
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...
- July 9th, 2023, 8:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: First El Dorado County Speckled King?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4608
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...
- June 29th, 2023, 4:18 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3158
- June 29th, 2023, 6:44 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3158
- June 28th, 2023, 8:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3158
- June 28th, 2023, 8:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: I See A Full Moon Rising 🌝
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3158
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...
- June 28th, 2023, 7:18 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: January 2023 Herping in the Southeast
- Replies: 5
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- June 5th, 2023, 1:12 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Questions about Coluber constrictor mormon
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3614
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...
- May 16th, 2023, 10:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
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...
- May 16th, 2023, 10:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
Re: Massachusetts Timber
One final supplemental thought. Best displayed in an illustration.:
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- May 16th, 2023, 9:04 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
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...
- May 16th, 2023, 8:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
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...
- May 15th, 2023, 2:28 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4463
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...
- November 5th, 2022, 11:41 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A much better video
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1973
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:
- 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: 2532
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...
- September 8th, 2022, 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Just Herping - An artistic journey into the mind of boredom induced road cruising
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2532
- September 4th, 2022, 3:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2602
- September 2nd, 2022, 7:54 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2602
- August 31st, 2022, 6:53 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2602
- August 30th, 2022, 8:03 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2602
Re: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
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 lolchris_mcmartin wrote: ↑August 28th, 2022, 8:17 pm I don't know what it is, but those scales on the side view look pristine.
’Split by genetics, and not by damage to the scale…?’
- August 30th, 2022, 5:47 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2602
- August 30th, 2022, 5:40 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2602
- August 24th, 2022, 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nerodia X Thamnophis Hybrid...?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2602
- August 9th, 2022, 5:20 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: First Arizona trip - and the Follow Up
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3252
- August 9th, 2022, 4:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: First Arizona trip - and the Follow Up
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3252
- August 3rd, 2022, 5:53 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Just Herping - An artistic journey into the mind of boredom induced road cruising
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2532
- July 19th, 2022, 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Just Herping - An artistic journey into the mind of boredom induced road cruising
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2532
- July 18th, 2022, 7:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The Story of Old Blind Melan
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3596
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...
- July 17th, 2022, 10:52 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Just Herping - An artistic journey into the mind of boredom induced road cruising
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2532
- July 11th, 2022, 3:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: May 2022 - Part 1: Oregon with Richard
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- Views: 2503
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...