Winter Post: http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... 11&t=21701
The first trip I took was in late March, to ANF. A cold front came through and slowed movement, dipping overnight lows into the low 40s, but snakes were still found.
Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake



Scarlet Kingsnake


Eastern Coachwhip



Eastern Cottonmouth

Gulf Coast Box Turtle

Corn Snake


The following weekend saw much more favorable weather, and Daniel and myself headed back to hang out with Josh Young again and attend a bioblitz with UGA.
This Screech Owl had just captured a Spadefoot Toad and provided an awesome photo opportunity.


Eastern Tiger Salamander

Greater Siren

Some odds and ends from a scenic morning in South Georgia.


We headed out to explore some more coastal habitat in the panhandle after that.
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake



Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake

Florida Softshell


The next evening we headed up to a tract of beautiful land in central Georgia.
Greater Siren

Corn Snake


Full Moon

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake


Eastern Hognose Snake




The next week was spent on a field trip with my school in east central Georgia, a welcome break from the monotony of class.


I was lucky enough to see quite a few snakes while I was there also.
The highlight (and one of my favorite finds this year) was my first Eastern Kingsnake of the year, a huge female, unfortunately in shed. I found her in this dam several times.




Northern Watersnake


The Kingsnakes were also out back home in Atlanta, as I found out later that week after spending a morning at one of my spots and finding 3, along with many other cool reptiles and amphibians.






Rat Snake


Red Salamander

Eastern Box Turtles


Queen Snakes



Rat Snake

Northern Watersnake

Also found my first Copperhead of the year on the road one warm April night.

I tagged along with my Dad on a business trip one day with Daniel to Savannah. We got to herp in some sweet places, and turned up quite a few snakes for 1 day in new territory.
Scarlet Snake

Cottonmouth

Red-bellied Watersnake

Scarlet Kingsnake

We met up with Ian Deery later that morning, he had just cruised this gorgeous Eastern Hognose.

Red-bellied Watersnake consuming Southern Toad

Copperhead

Ratsnake



The last find of the trip was this little Eastern Coachwhip flipped at a roadside barn in the rain.


A few odds and ends from around my house.
Eastern Kingsnake

Red-bellied Snakes


Ratsnake


River Cooters

Eastern Worm Snake

Here's a few shots from another weekend rocket run to south Georgia, mainly around Okefenokee.
Pitcher Plants

Brown Watersnake

Gray Rat Snake

A pair of gorgeous scarlet kingsnakes.


Florida Cooter

Gray Rat insitu

Juvenile Greater Siren

The first weekend of May was spent in North Georgia looking for some of my favorite species.
Green Salamander

Another individual.

Cave Salamander

Long-tail Salamander

Northern Watersnake

Pigeon Mountain Salamander

Black Ratsnake

We had a particularly productive morning flipping on a mountaintop, and we were able to turn up two Eastern Milk Snakes and a mountain Corn Snake.




Herping in my area really picked up, and I was able to find several species that are very hard to come across in this part of the state.
Corn Snake

This Queen Snake was a county record.

Northern Scarlet Snake



Only a few days after seeing my first two north Georgia corns in years, I hiked up this individual on my own land.


This very interesting looking corn was found later that week, freshly hit.

We spend a day in the sandhills looking for my white whale, the Pine Snake, while it was still prime movement season in mid may. No pines were seen (surprise surprise), but it was a fun day regardless.
Rat Snake


Red Salamanders

Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander (this was a lifer)

Large Coachwhip that regurgitated our only sign of a pine snake so far this year, as found.


A more typical Coachwhip found on road.

A few more things from my area.
Spotted Dusky Salamander

Awesome looking Red Bellied Snake

Common Snapping Turtle

Cope's Gray Treefrog breeding frenzy.


We made another weekend trip to the mountains to cross off some lifers, we weren't disappointed.
Alabama Map Turtle, the main target.

Stripe-necked Musk Turtle, a nice new lifer.

Timber Rattlesnake


Northern Copperhead


I'll end the Spring report here, and I'll start Summer with the last weekend of May! I'll try to get that up soon, but since I'm back in school now it may take a week or two! Hope everyone enjoyed, Happy Herping, baby season is upon us!