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- May 16th, 2013, 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: May Milkathon!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7087
Re: May Milkathon!
I've been back to the area, but I didn't find any snakes. The small area where I used to find them got bulldozed and covered with gravel. One interesting thing I've noticed though, is that the immediate areas around wells that have been capped for a few years seem to be great places to find snakes. ...
- May 16th, 2013, 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: May Milkathon!
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7087
Re: May Milkathon!
I used to find a lot of milks at one of my spots in North-Central PA, but that turned into a gas well last summer, :cry: so as of now I'm out of places to find them. Other than that one spot, they seem to just turn up randomly like mountain earth snakes. I never really expect to find them, but I'm h...
- May 13th, 2013, 11:58 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: May Species Counts
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8531
Re: May Species Counts
5/12/13- Dauphin County PA
- about half a dozen skinks
- 2 black racers
- 1 slimy salamander
- 1 redback
- about half a dozen skinks
- 2 black racers
- 1 slimy salamander
- 1 redback
Re: Good day
Awesome!
- April 28th, 2013, 3:56 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A Successful Day/Black Snake ID
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2162
Re: A Successful Day/Black Snake ID
Thanks for the help, I entered it in the database as a rat snake.
- April 27th, 2013, 5:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Accidental Double Post, Don't bother looking
- Replies: 0
- Views: 621
- April 27th, 2013, 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A Successful Day/Black Snake ID
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2162
A Successful Day/Black Snake ID
Today I went out with a friend to Schuylkill County PA, and the first rock I flipped had a cute little ringneck- http://i.imgur.com/02HQxX0.jpg Along the body of water we were at were dozens of red spotted newts- http://i.imgur.com/FjWSsqr.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Ld8pNMe.jpg Nearby were some vernals,...
- April 21st, 2013, 4:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: April Species Counts
- Replies: 49
- Views: 9398
Re: April Species Counts
Thursday April 18- Lebanon County - TMTC red and lead backed salamanders Friday April 19- Lebanon County - 1 red spotted newt - 1 northern spring salamander - ± 20 spotted salamander egg masses - 1 enormous wood frog egg mass - 5 red backed salamanders Saturday April 20- Lycoming County - 3 two-line...
- April 21st, 2013, 12:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Backpacking Trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1699
Re: Backpacking Trip
Excellent, thanks for the help.
- April 21st, 2013, 11:28 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Backpacking Trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1699
Re: Backpacking Trip
Can I add shots of egg masses to the database? The hatchlings in the last photo from my first post were from the first egg mass, the large greenish one. Also, I found these in a pool almost 100 miles north of the other ones while I was turkey hunting this weekend. Are these just maculatum and sylvat...
- April 19th, 2013, 1:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Backpacking Trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1699
Backpacking Trip
I just got back from a three-day backpacking in SE Pennsylvania with my wildlife and fisheries biology class. I had some great luck finding one (maybe two) lifer salamander species. First up, non-lifer red eft. Not my hands, by the way :lol: http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s444/thejakeman1/photo...
- April 15th, 2013, 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Odd Looking Garter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2371
Re: Odd Looking Garter
Marc- I measured it on google earth, there's .91 miles of basically dry fields and woods between the foundation and the canal I was fishing in that day.
- April 14th, 2013, 11:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Odd Looking Garter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2371
Re: Odd Looking Garter
I agree, although I found it in a dry rock pile next to an abandoned foundation about a mile from the nearest water source. Leave it to me to misidentify a water snake...
*edited because of my inability to spell.
*edited because of my inability to spell.
- April 14th, 2013, 10:37 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Odd Looking Garter
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2371
Odd Looking Garter
I caught my first snake of the year yesterday, a very small garter, and I struggled to ID it at first just because it looked so different from other sirtalis I've found. It got me thinking, I'd love to see pictures anyone has of aberrant garters. http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s444/thejakeman1/...
- March 8th, 2013, 6:51 am
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: Green Iguanas
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1108
Green Iguanas
While looking over some older posts on the herpetoculture forum, I couldn't find a single topic about green iguanas. Does anyone else on here keep them? I have one six year old that I keep in a large shower stall with a heater and a UVB lamp on a timer, as well as a humidity system on a timer.
- February 25th, 2013, 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Planning a big trip down South
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2500
Re: Planning a big trip down South
I spend three weeks in July every year on the eastern shore of Virginia. The ONLY herps I have ever seen there are water snakes, fowlers toads, and bullfrogs. Other than that, the only other things you're going to catch will probably be sunburn and heatstroke. The sea breeze mentioned in an earlier ...
- February 19th, 2013, 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Northeast vs. California Chapter Contest
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18464
Re: Northeast vs. California Chapter Contest
Oh please! I have no car, no job, and a back yard full of red backs. I could have 1000 cinereus in half that time!
- February 18th, 2013, 3:41 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Quick question on Sexing a snake..
- Replies: 26
- Views: 11719
Re: Quick question on Sexing a snake..
Timber rattlesnake sex can be determined with a subcaudal scale count. 21 or more is a male, although I'm unsure of how to tell the gender of other species.
- February 7th, 2013, 5:16 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: rattlesnake roundups ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3958
Re: rattlesnake roundups ?
Why? Because people want to kill them. Whether for meat, hide, stupidity, or whatever your reason, the people who kill one male timber rattlesnake over 42 inches during the season in a legal manner are not the ones that I consider to be causing a huge drop in the population. I've seen a basking area...
- February 6th, 2013, 3:00 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: rattlesnake roundups ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3958
Re: rattlesnake roundups ?
Well, you are allowed to kill one male rattlesnake a year over 42 inches.
- February 5th, 2013, 6:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Talk about your envenomations.
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7651
Re: Talk about your envenomations.
I found out that I am allergic to bee stings the hard way. A couple years ago, I was at home, playing street hockey with some friends, when I was stung near the tip of my ring finger. My entire right hand and forearm swelled up like a balloon, and became really itchy. I started to have trouble breat...
- February 3rd, 2013, 5:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Off Topic: Superbowl!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2717
Re: Off Topic: Superbowl!
I'm a steelers fan. I'm hoping the ravens lose, not that I'm a 49ers fan. I kind of wish they could both lose.
- January 30th, 2013, 6:12 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: rattlesnake roundups ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3958
Re: rattlesnake roundups ?
There's no one who knows anything about herpetology who would say that timber rattlesnake numbers are anywhere near where they were in pre-Columbian times. I'm just saying, I see more timber rattlesnakes up state when I'm herping than any other species. Granted, much of the time I spend herping, I a...
- January 29th, 2013, 7:02 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tiny Frog ID
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2067
Re: Tiny Frog ID
Ok, I'll leave it out until I can get back to that spot and get better pics. It was in potter county to be specific (but not too specific, I don't want you taking my toad spots)
- January 29th, 2013, 6:56 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: rattlesnake roundups ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3958
Re: rattlesnake roundups ?
I have never personally seen a rattlesnake that has been brought to a round-up exhibit any of the symptoms you described. Almost all of the participants in these events use tongs. I know they arent perfect, but I would feel much more comfortable using them than pinning the snake behind the head (not...
- January 29th, 2013, 7:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: rattlesnake roundups ?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3958
Re: rattlesnake roundups ?
I attend and participate in these events every year. I can tell you that they are a completely different entity from any round-ups conducted out West. The goals of the hunts that take place in Pennsylvania are not perfect, but they raise money for local organizations, such as fire companies and spor...
- January 26th, 2013, 10:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: My Year in review, Jan and Feb 2012
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1933
Re: My Year in review, Jan and Feb 2012
Your mysterious cloud looks like a "hole-punch cloud". I know very little about meteorology, and just stumbled upon this mere minutes after reading your post.
http://www.weather.com/news/hole-punch-clouds-20130123
http://www.weather.com/news/hole-punch-clouds-20130123
- January 22nd, 2013, 5:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tiny Frog ID
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2067
Re: Tiny Frog ID
Thanks for the input. One other question, can I enter this into the database as multiple individuals from just one photo?
- January 22nd, 2013, 3:51 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tiny Frog ID
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2067
Re: Tiny Frog ID
I was thinking american toad too, but the spots on the leg look more like a pickerel frog or leopard frog, even though the profile is wrong. I've only seen fowler's toads in Virginia though, they might be different here.
- January 22nd, 2013, 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tiny Frog ID
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2067
Tiny Frog ID
I was looking through old pictures for entries for the database when I happened upon these pictures of a frog I found in North-Central PA. I found him and about 200 of his relatives hopping around a parking lot which was adjacent to a grass field which had a pond in it. It was almost impossible not ...
- January 17th, 2013, 6:40 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: An uncommonly posted NE salamander (x-post NE chapter)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2196
Re: An uncommonly posted NE salamander (x-post NE chapter)
Why wouldn't people post pics of jefferson's salamanders? Are they just really hard to find? Or is it for the same reason that some people don't like posts about timber rattlesnakes, that it might give locality info?
- January 5th, 2013, 4:51 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: TN Herpers
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6755
Re: TN Herpers
I knew Coluber constrictor constrictor as "blue racers" until a few years ago. I even have an old poster in my room of the snakes of PA that calls them blue racers. It's just what people in my area call them.
- January 4th, 2013, 6:44 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Agressive cottonmouths and copperheads
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4458
Re: Agressive cottonmouths and copperheads
While I have no experience at all with copperheads or cottonmouths, all timbers I have encountered were reluctant to strike unless provoked. When I visit dens, they always just try to crawl back in the crevice or cavity that they den in. The only time I have been struck at unexpectedly was when I st...
- December 27th, 2012, 6:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A Random Question Thread
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3655
Re: A Random Question Thread
I try to keep a healthy balance between sitting on my arse playing call of duty and agitating stinging insects :lol: My buddies and I used to do almost the same thing with wasps when we would visit my grandfather's farm. Oodles of fun until I found out I was severely allergic to bee stings. Then it ...
- December 25th, 2012, 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: well......
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1151
Re: well......
Merry christmas everyone!
I vote we turn this into a christmas-themed herp photo thread.
Not my pic but it's still pretty great.
I vote we turn this into a christmas-themed herp photo thread.
Not my pic but it's still pretty great.
- December 10th, 2012, 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: End of the Year 2012, Let's Keep it Going... #11 - SNAKES
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3134
Re: End of the Year 2012, Let's Keep it Going... #11 - SNAKE
I find it kind of pathetic that this is one of only about a dozen non-venomous snakes I saw this year. I don't have any good pictures of the ringnecks, garters, water snakes, and milks I found, so here's the melanistic/anerythristic redbelly I flipped while looking for rattlesnakes. http://i1052.pho...
- December 4th, 2012, 4:35 pm
- Forum: Herpetoculture Forum
- Topic: captive Corn Snake growths/tumors
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2103
captive Corn Snake growths/tumors
Let me start off by saying this is not my snake, it is my biology teacher's. I feed it and a few others that he has in his classroom. This snake has had the growth on his side for at least a few years, and others have emerged on it's head and other points on it's sides. Recently, I noticed this larg...
- December 1st, 2012, 4:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: End of the Year, Let's Keep it Going... #8 - VENOMOUS SNAKES
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3813
Re: End of the Year, Let's Keep it Going... #8 - VENOMOUS SN
My 3 favorite timber rattlesnake photos from this year, I have yet to encounter any other venomous species. http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s444/thejakeman1/20100611_20_49_44_zpsdb6dcc58.jpg http://i1052.photobucket.com/albums/s444/thejakeman1/20100523_22_03_39_zpsba1356d9.jpg http://i1052.photo...
- November 26th, 2012, 4:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lake Eyre Basin, Central Western Queensland, Nov 2012
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5761
Re: Lake Eyre Basin, Central Western Queensland, Nov 2012
Great photos! All those geckos make me wish there were some in the NE United States, but alas... Those emus made me wonder, in your experience, are they ever aggressive? Turkeys here are substantially smaller, but can occasionally become unpredictable in the late spring. It seems like a bird that bi...
- November 21st, 2012, 12:46 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: PHOTO ESSAY - November 16-30 - Species Profiles
- Replies: 82
- Views: 20405
Re: PHOTO ESSAY - November 16-30 - Species Profiles
Crotalus horridus- Yeah I know it's out of focus
- November 11th, 2012, 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: November Species Counts
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2619
Re: November Species Counts
Northumberland County PA, 11/11/12
6 Red-Backed salamanders
12 or so Red Spotted Newts
6 Red-Backed salamanders
12 or so Red Spotted Newts
- October 30th, 2012, 7:53 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Bird-a-Day
- Replies: 71
- Views: 18842
Re: Bird-a-Day
Turkey buzzard
-Yes, I know I already used this photo in another post, but all my other bird photos actually look like they were taken by a technologically challenged 14 year old.
-Yes, I know I already used this photo in another post, but all my other bird photos actually look like they were taken by a technologically challenged 14 year old.
- October 28th, 2012, 10:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Weekend trip
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2170
Re: Weekend trip
Ugh you are 100% correct. I edited my post. Although 52,000 acres is a pretty big area. :lol: One question though- People are giving very detailed information about where to herp in the country of Belize. Why not make a post there asking for the same secrecy? What is a microwave herper? That questio...
- October 22nd, 2012, 3:42 pm
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: strangest thing you ever caught
- Replies: 48
- Views: 62719
Re: strangest thing you ever caught
I snagged a sea cucumber in maine once. I know they aren't that rare or special, but the first time I caught a northern puffer in virginia, I was pretty surprised. I had no idea that they lived there.
- October 17th, 2012, 6:42 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: Come on People, Show Me Some Inverts
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8880
Re: Come on People, Show Me Some Inverts
I've always been fascinated by these guys.
- October 15th, 2012, 6:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Weekend trip
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2170
Re: Weekend trip
*edited
- October 13th, 2012, 6:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Comment Period - Online professionalism and courtesy
- Replies: 54
- Views: 16399
Re: Comment Period - Online professionalism and courtesy
I for one am happy to see this, especially after the number of disagreements I have had with members both publicly and privately.
- October 9th, 2012, 4:16 pm
- Forum: Fish Forum
- Topic: Sewer/drain flies in my aquarium
- Replies: 5
- Views: 28953
Re: Sewer/drain flies in my aquarium
Thanks, It's been drained for weeks now, and I haven't seen any more flies. I just haven't had the time to troubleshoot the pump, so it'll be a while until it gets back up and running.
- October 7th, 2012, 11:43 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Some birds from Western KY
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3903
Re: Some birds from Western KY
Wow. Any of those photos are better than the best bird photo I have ever taken! Great job.
- October 7th, 2012, 8:21 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Question about the Mojave rattlesnake and W. Diamondback
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7797
Re: Question about the Mojave rattlesnake and W. Diamondback
horridus does that occasionally too. I've encountered one snake that hissed, but didn't rattle, and another that struck my leg without any rattle or hiss. I was walking through tall ferns and stepped about 6 inches from it's head without knowing it.