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- June 12th, 2010, 9:50 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Animals in water?
- Replies: 6
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Animals in water?
Does anyone have ideas for taking shots of animals that are submerged in water? There's a pond or two here with a great population of diving beetles and I can't get a shot worth a crap. They're always overexposed, or you can't see the animal through the water...how do you get those shots to turn out...
- June 12th, 2010, 8:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My first kingsnake!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4388
Re: My first kingsnake!
werler and dixon puts us as in an intergrade zone, so probably. I was too busy laughing my head off to think straight. I haven't been that excited since my first indigo
- June 12th, 2010, 8:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My first kingsnake!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4388
My first kingsnake!
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm18/paulWTAMU/Field%20Finds/wildcatbluff001-1.jpg first glimpse Don't know what it's eating...any ID's? I'm in Amarillo TX http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm18/paulWTAMU/Field%20Finds/wildcatbluff003-1.jpg My first wild kingsnake :beer: :lol: :D And it was eat...
- June 12th, 2010, 8:39 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Field herping in DREAMS?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3682
Re: Field herping in DREAMS?
I've had herp related dreams yeah :lol: What sucks is I'm always finding stuff in my dreams I'd kill to find IRL. Like reticulated collared lizards, banded geckos, eastern indigos...*sigh* This week I had a dream that I found a nest of rattlesnakes (indeterminate species) under my couch. edit: Awww,...
- June 11th, 2010, 9:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: San Diego County freaks - why I go out when nobody else does
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13735
Re: San Diego County freaks - why I go out when nobody else
Hows' the care on the shovel nosed? I've been trying to decide on some unusual small colubrids to work with, and I'm bouncing back and forth between lyre snakes, long-nose snakes, and shovel nosed or patch nosed. I have, and like, kings and house snakes and pythons but I want something a bit differe...
- June 11th, 2010, 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Everyone post your milksnakes!
- Replies: 89
- Views: 21380
Re: Everyone post your milksnakes!
I think I hate you all. I've *never* found a Lampropeltis in the field.
- June 11th, 2010, 10:28 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: As requested. Funky Masticophis lateralis lateralis
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3432
Re: As requested. Funky Masticophis lateralis lateralis
reminds me of bannana cream pie...
ok, it's lunch time. everything reminds me of food...but look at the dark black with the yellow band...pretty snake
ok, it's lunch time. everything reminds me of food...but look at the dark black with the yellow band...pretty snake
- June 11th, 2010, 10:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: San Diego County freaks - why I go out when nobody else does
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13735
Re: San Diego County freaks - why I go out when nobody else
I don't think I've *ever* herped a real abberant...one or two possible hybrids, one or two diamondbacks that had funky patterns (not too extreme)...that's been it.
- June 10th, 2010, 2:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snake Repellent Testing - Advice
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7083
Re: Snake Repellent Testing - Advice
if it works, I'll sprinkle most of the neighborhood with it, and leave my yard free of it Bring me your poor, squirming serpents, y earning to eat mice....
- June 9th, 2010, 8:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: REPOST: Three-Ring King Rat Circus
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2307
Re: REPOST: Three-Ring King Rat Circus
I've seen some king rats that had vivid black and yellow coloration as adults, and pictures of others that look like those; more brownish...is it a locale thing, or is it just polymorphic?? I'd always assumed it was age related color change but those are still brown and are pretty big.
- June 9th, 2010, 8:04 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Albuquerque area the past month or so...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4057
Re: Albuquerque area the past month or so...
two of my cousin's are in Albq. Tried to go herping last year only to come down sick on the trip
Ever see any blacktails? Those are on my life list...I spend time in NM semi regulalry but it's always for some family emergency (funerals, sicknesses etc).
Ever see any blacktails? Those are on my life list...I spend time in NM semi regulalry but it's always for some family emergency (funerals, sicknesses etc).
- June 9th, 2010, 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: VA salamanders and some odds and ends
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2334
Re: VA salamanders and some odds and ends
all of ya'll with the major diversity of salamanders make me jealous. All we got around here are tigers and even those aren't terribly common (I've seen 2-3 since I moved here).
Some of those...wow. That first one looked like the night sky man. Just astonishing.
Some of those...wow. That first one looked like the night sky man. Just astonishing.
- June 9th, 2010, 3:31 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Recommended Reading
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9747
Re: Recommended Reading
Amphibians and Reptiles of New Mexico, by Degenhardt et al. Good information for most of NM's herps. Includes notes on natural history, range, etc. Texas Snakes, Werler and Dixon. Great amount of info on our serpents. I'll second "The Keeper and the Kept." My parents gave me that for Chris...
- June 9th, 2010, 7:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Another GREAT week of northern Ohio herping!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6149
Re: Another GREAT week of northern Ohio herping!
Sheesh. I need to visit the wife's family up there more often I guess.
- June 8th, 2010, 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 5/31 Palo Duro Canyon
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2989
Re: 5/31 Palo Duro Canyon
Hey, PD is a great spot :) I've found a prairie or two there, but mostly atrox. The un-ID'd lizard is a checkered whiptail, very common on the lighthouse trail. I get down to PD several times per month when I can. Good to see other panhandlers here! Try the running trail for collared lizards there b...
- June 8th, 2010, 3:38 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Thus far in CA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3950
Re: Thus far in CA
try Nerodia...it's freaking horrible. I used to think Thamnophis was bad but during my first year in texas, I tried to catch a water snake...got pooped on, musked on, and bit. One hell of a reek. It worked too, I leave 'em alone now :lol: not worth trying to catch 'em when I can find 'em any day of ...
- June 8th, 2010, 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Texas Panhandle, June 5-7
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4589
Re: Texas Panhandle, June 5-7
There's one that lives in/near my mom's compost heap. Seems to lay it's eggs and overwinter (during what Houstonians call a winter) in it. I peek in and say high about once a visit Gotta love it. She's a beauty.
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- June 8th, 2010, 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Texas Panhandle, June 5-7
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4589
Re: Texas Panhandle, June 5-7
There ain't a part of this state without amazing herpetofauna. I love it :mrgreen: My folks live in the suburbs of houston and I've seen buttermilk racers, nerodia, texas rats and thamnophis in their yard. They've got what sounds like a mud snake that frequents the neighborhood but I ain't seen it y...
- June 8th, 2010, 11:58 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Let's get this show back on the road...
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8269
Re: Let's get this show back on the road...
teach me the ways of the photographer O revered one!
Neat shots
Neat shots
- June 8th, 2010, 11:55 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Once, In a Former Life . . .
- Replies: 40
- Views: 12336
Re: Once, In a Former Life . . .
old: Varanid
new: Paul White
new: Paul White
- June 8th, 2010, 11:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Last couple weeks in New Mexico
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4797
Re: Last couple weeks in New Mexico
You just found 3 herps on my life list! Nice man. That's a heck of a neat trip
That blacktail, the gecko and the transpecos are the lifers I ain't found yet.
That blacktail, the gecko and the transpecos are the lifers I ain't found yet.
- June 8th, 2010, 11:42 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Texas Panhandle, June 5-7
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4589
Texas Panhandle, June 5-7
I'm going out this evening too and may edit this post later...older photos first June 5th, morning This flew at me after this photo. I screamed and jumped. http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm18/paulWTAMU/Field%20Finds/wildcatbluff013.jpg 1st herp...bad start. Intresting to watch the ants work http...
- June 8th, 2010, 6:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Krk, May 21-23, DUW
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7925
Re: Krk, May 21-23, DUW
I had no idea your part of Europe had that much lizard diversity. Those are some seriously neat animals man.
Also props on the tortoise! Killer find.
Also props on the tortoise! Killer find.