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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 9th, 2012, 5:14 pm
by Kevin Messenger
one of my favorites:
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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 9th, 2012, 5:47 pm
by noah k.
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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 5:37 pm
by Tamara D. McConnell
Kinda lame photo, but here it is anyhow. Found 3/21/11. I often see these earlier in the spring in my backyard. Next one I find, I will get a lip-flaring photo.
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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 6:06 pm
by Don Becker
This one is actually an Orange-bellied Snake

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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 6:13 pm
by salamanderhunter
we should add natural history discussions to these species specific posts... :beer:

Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 6:21 pm
by kyle loucks
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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 6:30 pm
by Don
One of my favorite finds of this abundant critter

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Found together under tin. Horry Co., SC. I got very lucky with this shot.

Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 6:37 pm
by Bob O'
A grey morph from Liberty Co., FL. I thought it was a ring neck when I took this shot 7 years ago.

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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 8:35 pm
by Coluber Constrictor
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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 8:49 pm
by kaptainkory

Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 10th, 2012, 9:14 pm
by steve
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Awesome Picture!! Wish these little guys weren't so uncommon around my area.

Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 11th, 2012, 5:42 am
by Russ_Jones
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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 11th, 2012, 7:01 am
by Jon Wedow
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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 11th, 2012, 7:40 am
by chrish
Awesome photos.

I only have this one lousy scanned slide, but I'm proud of it because it is from SE Texas where red-bellieds are tough to find.

Not only do dekayi outnumber red-bellieds thousands to one (it seems), but our red-bellieds aren't red-bellied and our dekayi are highly variable.
Which makes East TX red-bellieds are very easy to overlook. When you find a Red-bellied Snake in SE Texas, it's a memorable day!

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Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 11th, 2012, 7:40 pm
by Carl Brune
Redbellies are not common in southeast Ohio -- I've seen less than 10 in 10+ years of herping here. There's one site where I've seen 4 of them; otherwise it's a matter of sifting through hundreds of ringnecks and Dekay's... Here's a few:

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August 2004

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Same snake as above.

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June 2005

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June 2009

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Same snake as above.

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May 2011

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Same snake as above.

Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 12th, 2012, 6:15 am
by mfb
Great idea John, Both Storeria are very under-appreciated snakes.

I don't have any photos, but I do have a natural history anecdote. Over the last three summers in Ohio, I've worked in the same field (the mesocosm field John V knows). For the first two summers we frequently saw milk snakes, but rarely S. occipitomaculata or S. dekayi. Last summer we saw no milk snakes, but lots of both Storeria. I've wondered if the disappearance of the predator (milksnakes) led to the increase in the prey (Storeria). I'm looking forward to seeing what snakes are there this summer.

Re: Storeria occipitomaculata

Posted: May 14th, 2012, 1:50 pm
by Robyn@TRR
Awesome pic!

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