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The first video from my trip to New Mexico a couple weeks ago; apparently I arrived slightly too early, as rains messed up a lot of plans (or lack thereof earlier on did too...), but we still found some stuff:

A short outing with the local PARC chapter:

A video from more locally for me...and with a reminder, watch where you put your rocks...

Final day in Kansas:

Kansas Day 3 (which we spent mostly in Oklahoma instead). Some of the most brightly colored box turtles I have ever seen...

Day 2 of the Kansas trip is now up; 3 lifer snakes, 1 lizard, 1 frog, and a whole lot of species that haven't ever been on the channel yet.

Between the options of sayi and deserticola, by and away this matches sayi far more. However locality would be rather important as sayi intergrades in more than one place with deserticola, and in some broad regions with affinis (which tends to resemble sayi a lot more than deserticola does).

Biggest trip I've taken thus far, day 1:

And thumbnail is showing up in preview for me, if it doesn't show up here the video is active on the Carlton Carnivores channel on YouTube.

When herping doesn't work out, there's other wildlife to be found no matter where you are.

Having had recent experience with Animal Plastics, I cannot recommend them. Have had Boamaster recommended recently to me however.

Shows up fine as a thumbnail vid for me...problem's probably on your end as it's doing what it's supposed to far as I can see.

If you think they should be, and they won't just clutter the section, I will keep that in mind for future ones. I was putting them all here just to kind of keep my stuff in one place so it didn't fill the forum.

Brand new video out now, featuring bullsnakes:

Year's already begun for me, earlier than ever (we still expect snow and frosts for a few weeks to come normally), so beginning the wildlife videos already. The description on YouTube makes note of the ID flub on one of the animals here but for anyone who doesn't head there to watch: what I thought ...

Lizards are plenty interesting in their own right when one looks past them just being "that thing crawling on the nearest wall." Especially once one learns to appreciate even the diversity of the ubiquitous anoles and amievas. The second part is actually up just tonight, admittedly the lat...

Didn't find everything I wanted to find, but hey, when does that happen ever? Part one is a doozy in terms of length, but full of animals:

You have no idea how much comments like that are appreciated! The channel can always use support too, if you can encourage others to watch or subscribe, or if you're willing to become a patron to support (links are always in the vid descriptions). If I can get to the point where I can regularly affo...

I will; takes time to make the vids (especially as I often alternative between plants and animals) so even during the winter season might only get a few out.

It's that time of year where I really don't have much option for going out and looking for ectothermic wildlife, so I attempt to make videos focusing on the animals within the house. Just posted up a new one, pertaining to the largest snake I have and the details on their general care needs (and hop...

A little over a month before there is an intended plan to end up on several islands of the southern Caribbean, including but not necessarily limited to: Barbados, Martinique, St. Lucia, the Virgin Islands, etc. I have no idea how long I'll actually have on each island, but anywhere I can I want a ch...

Thanks to both; I'll admit I manage tones better in person and through videos than I do in online methods (so if I come off sounding excessively blunt, touchy, etc. in writing here, I can't process written conversation as well as verbal so I end up going straight to points more than I should) so I'm...

So, basically the same issues as there are already with lights in those color spectra...problems with light pollution have been something being fought for some time now though, so it's the same principle that needs to be addressed.

After the first SE CO trip, stuck around home to make a couple more short vids:

Thus far most of my videos have been moderately short productions; two forays to southeastern Colorado for a full weekend required longer documentation however. This was the first:

Not the longest vid I've made so far, but this trip was perhaps my most exciting personally so far; after looking for years, I finally located a snake I've been wanting to see desperately:

My first reptile video from this year, a couple favored locations from the nearby foothills:

This past winter was spent making videos about the animals and plants at home (will probably be doing the same this winter since herping around here is kind of impossible in the snow), and then with spring, started out with finding frogs:

Thanks for the positives! As I said I'm a tech dunce so the past year has just been a slow work in progress trying to get the videos to look better and get as much info into them as I can think of (and have a little fun along the way here and there). My next couple of vids were short clips of the fi...

I've checked in on and off to this site but never actually made an account until now; I've been a reptile nut for over 20 years, actively been out on trips solely to look for herps over the last 7 or 8 or so, and have recently attempted to take the activity to a more educational level in a couple di...