May Milkathon!

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May Milkathon!

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Post 1-2 pictures of every Eastern Milk you have found in 2013. June 3rd, 11:59 is the cutoff. This isn't a contest to see who finds the most. This is a simple, look-how-nice-my-milk-is contest. It's totally subjective and fun. Let's see who can find the nicest Eastern Milk.

If you post a Coastal, you are automatically disqualified and labeled a braggart.

Post 'em as you find 'em. :) And label them. Example: your username and a number in order of your find - brick911,#1 or sstaedtler,#48. That way we can do a fun vote on them at the end.
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Sounds fun if I can find a single milk. :cry:
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Brendan Murray wrote:Sounds fun if I can find a single milk. :cry:
Same here..ditto.
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Jared Cain #1
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Jared Cain #2. I have found this one a couple times and still yet to get a decent pic. Wont sit still for anything!
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And we're off....
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A little bit of rain today, and scattered rain and sunshine tomorrow. Milk weather!
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They're scarce down here, but if you extend contest until June 11 I'll be able to participate. :mrgreen:

Looking forward to seeing some pretties from you all.


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Brister #1

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Brister #2

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lampro nuts.....
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The first two milks I ever found on May 12th, the second a juvenile...

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brick911 #1

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brick911 #2

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brick911 #3

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Milksnake #4 by brick911

brick911 #4

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First time dropping by the Northeast chapter and DAMN!

Wish we had a milkathon here on the West Coast....I guess we can have a Cal King and zonata-thon ahah!

Good stuff, fellow Lampro-nuts!
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Well, not as nice as Bobs but here are a couple more.

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Saglines #1
Is there a consolation prize for the ugliest, because i'm definitely in the running for that. It's my first Milk of the year. Hopefully I can get a nice looking one by the cutoff.
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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 happy when I do. I'm in the same boat as Tim, I probably won't get a chance to find one until June.
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The Jake-Man wrote: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 happy when I do. I'm in the same boat as Tim, I probably won't get a chance to find one until June.
Have you checked that area since? Its really bad in the counties I herp here in WV. Ive yet to go looking around on the cleared areas for pipeline but I do hear of reports of rattlers in one area. Hopefully they havent all been killed off.
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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. There's usually plenty of junk like boards or sheet metal, and the borders of the clearings often have rock piles where the hillside was bulldozed flat. Same thing with pipeline cuts, they give snakes a canopy opening to bask in.
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Not a Northeasterner but I hope you don't mind if I post here...

These are mostly L.t.t with a very small amount of syspila influence, but you wouldn't know by looking at them.

ThatFrogGuy #1
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ThatFrogGuy #2
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If you don't count me in the contest I'm fine with that.
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Ah, ThatFrogGuy posted a coastal. Henceforth, he shall be called "Braggart." :lol:
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Finally got some lactose in my system.
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ThatFrogGuy wrote:
ThatFrogGuy #2
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Well it looks like we have a winner!!!
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Saglines #2 (Cape Cod)
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Saglines #3 (Cape Cod)
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This one was pretty cool.

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Darnell Brister wrote:
ThatFrogGuy wrote:
ThatFrogGuy #2
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Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum) by Zach Truelock, on Flickr
Well it looks like we have a winner!!!
Agreed!
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Well it looks like we have a winner!!!
Looks like everyone is calling it before the contest is over.

Im impressed with the number of dorsal blotches on this snake:
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Zach, I have to agree with a few others. That's probably the best milk that's gonna be posted, however you are out of are chapter range and stated it could have syspila influence.

If I'm counting out coastals, I have to count out red intergrades.

Please feel free to keep adding stuff to the thread. I love when out-of-towner's contribute here. It's really just eye candy anyway. There is no prize. :lol:
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I have an early vote for saglines #3 being the most unique. That's a whole bunch of white on that snake!
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Jared Cain wrote:

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I know that Bob is going to tell me what a girl I am, but this one has a HEART on its forehead! Winner!
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Should separate babies from adults too... just sayin. And Andrea, kinda like that you are a girl.
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kyle loucks wrote:Should separate babies from adults too... just sayin. And Andrea, kinda like that you are a girl.
I agree. I say we just keep posting them no matter how good looking they are or ugly and we can have a bunch of different categories, all for fun. Ugliest, most unique, best looking baby, best looking adult, etc.
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SAGlines #4
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ZantiMissKnit wrote:
Jared Cain wrote:



I know that Bob is going to tell me what a girl I am, but this one has a HEART on its forehead! Winner!
At least one vote. Woot! :D I did'nt even notice the heart shape on its head until I read your post :thumb:
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I'm entering this guy in hopes of a booby prize! This poor fella... I thought he was dead... he looked all dark and oily. Only when he moved did I realize he wasn't a former snake.
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Bad coloring, lots of battle scars and an unshed noggin. Where do I pick up my prize?
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Oh man... don't tell me that I killed the thread with this beast!! He's not THAT bad is he?!
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Saglines #5
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brick911 wrote: Please feel free to keep adding stuff to the thread. I love when out-of-towner's contribute here. It's really just eye candy anyway. There is no prize. :lol:
In that case...
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May Milk. :)

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ok so this first pic doesn't count for the contest... it's 2 years old but I figured I'd share it anyway.
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This was last week

b-Sol #1
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ThatFrogGuy #4
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Same population as the beauty I posted earlier.
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