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Assemblage of Herping Triumphs

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I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon here and do a big recap type post to welcome myself back to the forum after the crash.

These are just favorite herps from over the years many of them are lifers, and some are just pics I like:

Giant milk and my first live fox snake under the same rock:
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My first alterna found on the first night of Alterna Rush Filming! Photo by Gerald Merker
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Boxie in a puddle
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Garter from central Kansas
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My first gopher:
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My first, and only, jungle runner from Florida
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My first wild cornsnake in situ:
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First acutus
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First cottonmouth:
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First wild burmese: (Only pic I have we were too busy freaking out)
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First elapsoides:
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Alterna holotype photo'd and filmed in Philadelphia:
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My first redback
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Cool picture of Jerry Kruse's Rosy:
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My first fully striped, hypo looking ringneck. Many have followed:
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A little piece of Kansas:
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Out of the thousands of ringnecks I've found, I've only witnessed breeding twice. Photo by Michael Westphal:
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I can't find the pic of my first oklahoma pig, or my first ever from Missouri, but this is my second Oklahoma Pig :) :
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This shot was taken with my cell phone and is my cellphone background to this day:
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Another good cell phone shot:
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A friends pet eyelash that hadn't eaten for a year. I got it eating again with road killed leopard frogs:
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Redear my son and I found road cruising on father's day:
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A rare western Kansas prairie king:
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A nice speck from out west:
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Scolopendra eating a roadkilled cricket:
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Native mantid in my rose bush:
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A nice syspila from a route I run as a UPS driver:
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And another UPS milk:
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And another:
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Crazy newt in Mike Graziano's collection:
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The following snakes were found on the same day all Alive on the Road and comprise my only AOR Trifecta!
In situ Speck:
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In situ Milk:
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In situ prairie king:
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I also found a garter and a ringer on the road that day:
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another taste of Kansas:
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Wormsnake:
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I don't care what you say, I just like this pic:
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County record G. pseudogeographica found by Small Scale Films summer research interns:
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My first Coal Skink:
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Max's milk. Found the morning my second son was born while my wife and I were walking to induce labor:
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Yellow Woodhouseii
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An old friend that I have found many years in a row. Also one of my favorite pictures I've ever taken of a milk:
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My first adult opacum
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This is like my 5th spotty, but the first I photographed:
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one of my first wood frogs:
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I didn't catch it, but it is a wild-caught Eastern Milk that I got to photo:
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My old Beardie:
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My blue concinnus:
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One of my captive Western Hogs:
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another taste of Kansas:
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South Texas Bullsnake:
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Big rock on 118 north of the river road:
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Xmas mountains purple prickly pear:
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candelaria:
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Sunset shot of the christmas mountains:
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A favorite copperhead pic:
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Pretty cool milk pic:
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A milk from the first hill where I ever found a milk alone:
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My first glutinosis:
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My first Missouri Coachwhips found under the same rock:
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A cool pic I took of my friend's Gonatodes vittatus:
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Second milk of 2010, currently an education animal at Fort Hays State University:
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My first attempt at photoing a newt:
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This is the photo that won second place in the KHS photo contest last year:
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One of my favorite snakes on the planet:
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What I consider a pretty good shot of a gray treefrog:
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My impressive erection in process:
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Local Milk on the wall:
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Part of my garden:
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A recent, and very memorable, roadcruising find:
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HERP NINJA:
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That'll do for now... :)

DAN
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That pic of the young corn on the palm frond is BEAUTIFUL! Love the colors. Nice capture.
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great pics. Those clusters of ringnecks are pretty awesome! I think my favorite is the Garter from Central Kansas, great picture of a beautiful snake!
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That in situ milk shot is excellent. It certainly tells a story. Welcome back :-D
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I love that south Texas Bullsnake, they are so pretty down there.
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Lots of great stuff! The mantis and copperhead shots are real standouts!
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The "local Milk" on the rock wall is intruiging on a few different levels and has me thinking more than I'm used to... :mrgreen:
Tim
Edit: By the way, I'll pick up Alterna Rush when it's available...I don't care if it's 22 hours long and shows nothing but empty road. As long as it's real, I'm in! Please keep us (me) updated on availability.
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that rosy boa is beautiful and that albino E milk is now my background pic thanks!
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I remember Max's milk! that was a great post back in the day.

-Mike
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I love that you have UPS route-milk snakes! Awesome summary.

...You said "my impressive erection." :lol:
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...You said "my impressive erection."
lol

Very awesome post! Love all the milks.
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Thanks all. I think you all know as well as I do how lucky we are to have stumbled onto such an interesting an rewarding hobby. I was chasing Graham's Crayfish snakes last night and thinking how most people in my area were watching the Royals loose to the Twins!
I started photoing animals just so I could post them on this forum and now photography has become one of my new favorite hobbies. It adds one more challenge to field herping.

Thanks again for your comments.

On the subject of the movie: We will finish this year and you will be able to purchase it on line. We are kicking off one more fundraising campaign very soon to help pay for the last bit of editing and sound stuff. Keep an eye out for our fundraising video here on herpnation!

Here is another pic of that "local milk" For you:
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Love the cotton pic
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OH yeah! When I posted the original post years back about my rock wall, I wanted to call it "Dan's Impressive Erection," but I was new to the forum and didn't want to offend anyone. I went with "The Rock Wall." I built that huge rock wall with my bare hands and almost no help. It is my most impressive erection!

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Great series of photos Dan. I too am a big fan of all the milks.

A few of those looked very familiar. If you're back in MA this year let me know.

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Awesome post! All those ring-necked snakes on one flip is just amazing. I remember finding 23 of those under a stack of boards, and ten under a single rock, but never that many under one object. I don't care how common they are, when those kind of numbers are seen under a single form of cover, it is cool to see. The rest of your pictures are great as well. I really like that last one. :D Thanks for sharing!

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Great post. You have a very nice collection of photo's there. The odd looking Ring necks you find are amazing. Image
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brick911 wrote:...You said "my impressive erection." :lol:
I loled at that one too.

Also the "Found the morning my second son was born while my wife and I were walking to induce labor" made me lol :lol:

"Honey, hold that kid in there for just a few more minutes...I JUST FOUND A MILK SNAKE!"

I would've loved to see her expression/reaction.

Awesome post with a lot of variety. Often people here skip some of the more common things in lieu of all the snakes they found. But even if they are common, they can still be beautiful and worth posting. Thanks for sharing some great shots.

-Alex
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Thank you thank you thank you all!

It's more like," Honey, I think I see a glade up there... I won't be gone long"

We must keep the forum alive! Post post post away!

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Is that 'old friend' the one I flipped on the hillside last year with Alison and Christian, You and Fischer?
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Wow! Sweet pics! Love all the milks! Thanks!
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Tom Sinclair wrote:Is that 'old friend' the one I flipped on the hillside last year with Alison and Christian, You and Fischer?

Yes. And I took that very picture the day you flipped him!

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Wow... Those are some very impressive snakes! All of the milks are great! Thanks!
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Awesome!

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