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- October 2nd, 2024, 10:42 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts police save endangered Rat Snake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2718
Re: Massachusetts police save endangered Rat Snake
Sad, I should clarify that I was not doubting the endangered status of the species, only the prioritization of threat. Who would have thought black rats would be that state. A future is hard without habitat and acreage which provides safe means of mobility to find food, mate and thrive. Suburbs, fa...
- September 27th, 2024, 2:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Baby snake maybe a milk or a tiny Northern Watersnake
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1852
Re: Baby snake maybe a milk or a tiny Northern Watersnake
Much appreciated Scott ,thanks
- September 21st, 2024, 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Baby snake maybe a milk or a tiny Northern Watersnake
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1852
Baby snake maybe a milk or a tiny Northern Watersnake
https://www.instagram.com/p/DAMfs7DPC6X/
I did it through Instagram ,lets hope this try works ,Scott ,please delete the first one
This was at the Quabbin reservoir in Central Massachusetts
I did it through Instagram ,lets hope this try works ,Scott ,please delete the first one
This was at the Quabbin reservoir in Central Massachusetts
- September 21st, 2024, 2:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts police save endangered Rat Snake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2718
Re: Massachusetts police save endangered Rat Snake
The eastern Rat snake which in New England is called the Black rat ,very endangered ,it may bounce back unlike Rattlesnake ,bnecause the Timber Rattlesnake only gives live birth every other year and people kill them.The Black Rat has a chance to make it some say
- September 14th, 2024, 3:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts police save endangered Rat Snake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2718
- August 12th, 2024, 2:43 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Connecticut man in coma after Timber bite
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5295
- August 1st, 2024, 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Hikers catch video of mating Timber Rattlesnakes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8060
- July 9th, 2024, 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Desert Kingsnake or Mexican Black Kingsnake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8299
Re: Desert Kingsnake or Mexican Black Kingsnake
I think the strips are to substantial to be anything other than Desert King snake.lancehakker wrote: ↑July 8th, 2024, 8:01 pm Thanks to you both! I have seen people posting Mexican Blacks with some faint marking similar to this one. My buddy and I felt it was an intergrade, but figured we’d throw it out to the forum.
- July 8th, 2024, 10:39 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Desert Kingsnake or Mexican Black Kingsnake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8299
- July 3rd, 2024, 12:59 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Central Mass Hoggie
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18052
Re: Central Mass Hoggie
I'm in Orange Cnty, NY and have never found a Hognose (or a Copper head) in all my years of crawling through the brush. Guess I'm looking in the wrong places. Have found most other snakes, though. The black rats have been out a lot so far this Spring. A couple of Timber rattlers, too. Thanks for po...
- May 15th, 2024, 1:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Central Mass Hoggie
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18052
Re: Central Mass Hoggie
From my reading they prefer warm temperatures. Perhaps in early spring they are more likely to be above ground taking advantage of the rays plus the vegetation is not dense yet. Unfortunately, I have no time to test the idea out. I've never found three in a single day though that would be a great d...
- April 30th, 2024, 4:39 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Rare Massachusetts bite yesterday ,victim expected to be ok
- Replies: 0
- Views: 12324
Rare Massachusetts bite yesterday ,victim expected to be ok
https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/hampden-county/emergency-responders-called-to-rattlesnake-bite-victim-near-tekoa-mountain-in-montgomery/ It's been a good decade since the last bite here ,Mt Tekoa though is known as one of the few spots around with a Timber population.Not far from that area a fe...
- February 24th, 2024, 11:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New Giant Anaconda species discovered
- Replies: 0
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- November 23rd, 2023, 2:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Green Mamba on the loose in the Netherlands
- Replies: 0
- Views: 16585
Green Mamba on the loose in the Netherlands
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/22/euro ... index.html
The article did not say which sub species of Green Mamba it is
The article did not say which sub species of Green Mamba it is
- October 14th, 2023, 1:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Black Racer removed from Cape Cod home
- Replies: 0
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- October 3rd, 2023, 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Autumn copperhead quite far north
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- Views: 13312
Autumn copperhead quite far north
Here is an as they call it "Indian Summer" fall copperhead in New England
- September 26th, 2023, 1:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Central Mass Hoggie
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18052
Re: Central Mass Hoggie
I have not found a very effecient way of finding the hognose snakes. It seems to be rather hit or miss. If you find a way to consistently locate them, let me know. My efforts have been limited to just looking around habitat I know they are in and hoping for the best. It is hit or miss ,they were ex...
- September 24th, 2023, 12:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Central Mass Hoggie
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18052
Re: Central Mass Hoggie
We may have been at the same place lol I found a young hog and an eastern milk at a well known scrub Oak forest in central MA Friday. I found those within about 15 minutes then spent the next two hours wandering around aimlessly and finding nothing. It was not very warm and so the racers seemed to ...
- September 22nd, 2023, 2:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Central Mass Hoggie
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18052
Central Mass Hoggie
A baby central Massachusetts hoggie ,very cute
- September 3rd, 2023, 8:40 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mt Tom Timber rattlesnake
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3660
Re: Mt Tom Timber rattlesnake
"Black" Timber's are getting scarce in the Granite State NHherp ,Massachusetts is doing a bit better and Connecticut is really making a comeback. I talked with some people and they in the Berkshires where I live and they say that down in Great Barrington or Sheffield they have diamondback...
- August 30th, 2023, 4:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mt Tom Timber rattlesnake
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3660
- June 3rd, 2023, 3:12 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Maryland man caught selling African snake with no anti-venom
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13153
Maryland man caught selling African snake with no anti-venom
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/06/m ... slist.html
A type of Bush Viper without a known accepted anti-venom
A type of Bush Viper without a known accepted anti-venom
- June 3rd, 2023, 3:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Possible northern most sighting of copperhead
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3852
- June 2nd, 2023, 10:42 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Possible northern most sighting of copperhead
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3852
Possible northern most sighting of copperhead
https://articles.atholdailynews.com/Cop ... l-51176095
The Millers River in Athol Massachusetts is in central Massachusetts only ten miles from the New Hampshire border
The Millers River in Athol Massachusetts is in central Massachusetts only ten miles from the New Hampshire border
- April 5th, 2023, 1:20 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Cape Cobra's on a plane,no not a movie ,for real!!
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- Views: 13109
- November 11th, 2022, 8:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A much better video
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- Views: 8668
Re: The Last Field Herping Video
Great video
Love the rattlesnake section,I have still never seen a venomous snake in the wild(very rare where I live) I envy you greatly.
One looked like a Mojave am I right and another looked like a North Pacific,and what was the really dark colored RS that was coiled up???
Thank you for sharing!
Love the rattlesnake section,I have still never seen a venomous snake in the wild(very rare where I live) I envy you greatly.
One looked like a Mojave am I right and another looked like a North Pacific,and what was the really dark colored RS that was coiled up???
Thank you for sharing!
- October 15th, 2022, 5:43 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Northern New Hampshire
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10484
Re: Northern New Hampshire
I went to the Franconian Notch in the fall of 2007 and saw a mother bear and three cubs.And then hit lake Willoughby in Vermont on the way home.
- October 1st, 2022, 10:06 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11625
Re: Massachusetts Timber
Makes me wonder why Maine says it has no more Timber's which makes no sense because Maine has so much wilderness. Massachusetts is fairly built up but still has a Timber population and a couple hundred copperheads and Connecticut has a small timber pop as well but so many copperheads they are not e...
- October 1st, 2022, 9:53 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Elevation for Vipera latastei?
- Replies: 4
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Re: Elevation for Vipera latastei?
They thrive well in all environment's from mountain's to scrubland steppe to deserts
I would say just stay below the tree line because you want trees because trees have nuts and nuts attract rodents but this appears a very diverse snake.
I would say just stay below the tree line because you want trees because trees have nuts and nuts attract rodents but this appears a very diverse snake.
- August 23rd, 2022, 3:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Dogs bitten in Connecticut
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13315
Dogs bitten in Connecticut
www.necn.com/two-dogs-recovering-after- ... n/2810030/
Two dogs bitten by Timber Rattlesnake in Glastonbury Connecticut
Two dogs bitten by Timber Rattlesnake in Glastonbury Connecticut
- August 11th, 2022, 2:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: (New Link Works) Timber King William Martin dies 80
- Replies: 0
- Views: 15208
(New Link Works) Timber King William Martin dies 80
www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/west-virginia-rattlesnake-expert-dies-bitten-timber-rattlesnake William Marty Martin the king of the Appalachian timber rattlesnake dies at 80 Sorry link is dead and could not get it right but it will come up if you google it. He studied the Appalachian timber from Georgia ...
- August 9th, 2022, 5:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11625
Re: Massachusetts Timber
Makes me wonder why Maine says it has no more Timber's which makes no sense because Maine has so much wilderness. Massachusetts is fairly built up but still has a Timber population and a couple hundred copperheads and Connecticut has a small timber pop as well but so many copperheads they are not ev...
- June 12th, 2022, 9:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11625
Re: Massachusetts Timber
That is a very different-looking Timber! Here in Louisiana they're always yellow or beige. I was impressed by the strange black one's from New Hampshire that are shown in Al Braswell's "Timber Rattlesnake Conservation Action Plan." Yours is close. Jeff They are so dark here it is true,the...
- June 10th, 2022, 4:14 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11625
Re: Massachusetts Timber
No one has died from a rattlesnake here since 1793 so they don't cause many problems,the last snake death was in the 1970's when a very small child died from a copperhead. There are an estimated 500 or so rattlesnakes in the state mostly in the southern Berkshires but a few other isolated places.An ...
- June 10th, 2022, 4:02 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Timber
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11625
Massachusetts Timber
download/file.php?mode=view&id=2916
Ever seen a real Massachusetts native Timber Rattlesnake?
Here it is,I think this is from the Mt Everett area in the southern Berkshires
Ever seen a real Massachusetts native Timber Rattlesnake?
Here it is,I think this is from the Mt Everett area in the southern Berkshires
- December 9th, 2021, 1:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Alligator captured
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4805
Re: Massachusetts Alligator captured
Due to federal law stating that an animal that has learned to associate food with humans may not be returned to the wild.The alligator will live out it's years educating children on wildlife in some type of wildlife program the news has reported
- December 8th, 2021, 2:31 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Massachusetts Alligator captured
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4805
Massachusetts Alligator captured
In western Massachusetts the Westfield river runs from the east Berkshires down to the Connecticut river in Springfield. Over the past few months an alligator has been spotted many times in the Westfield by boaters and fishermen. Yesterday it was captured by a brave man in Agawam MA and he turned th...
- July 21st, 2021, 11:34 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New Fungus killing snakes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 14012
New Fungus killing snakes
Does anyone know anything about the fungus killing snakes in the eastern US?
I live in a region with a very fragile Timber rattlesnake,copperhead and Black Rat population and am concerned it could wipe them out.
I live in a region with a very fragile Timber rattlesnake,copperhead and Black Rat population and am concerned it could wipe them out.
- January 31st, 2021, 1:02 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Cannibal Coachwhips?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5139
Re: Cannibal Coachwhips?
Were seeing more and more snakes eating snakes that weren't previously known for eating snakes
- December 7th, 2020, 11:30 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8603
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Wikipedia has always worked for me.
- October 22nd, 2020, 11:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9053
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Ok I understand ,around here people call that "road kill" or sometimes slang "road pizza"BillMcGighan wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2020, 3:29 pm A DOR is a herp that is "Dead On Road".
Yes there are AORs
- October 22nd, 2020, 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9053
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
I've not witnessed live ophiophagous behavior in Cottonmouths but have occasionally found water snakes in the gut of DORs. From the 1907 edition of The Reptile Book by Raymond L. Ditmars where he describes herping in a swamp in South Carolina during a drought : “The drying up of the water appeared ...
- October 16th, 2020, 10:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9053
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Just saw a Mozambique spitting Cobra eat a Puff Adder,no huge surprise in an Elapid eating a Viper,if the Viper eat the Elapid,a bit more surprising.
I guess a lot primarily rodent eating snakes will eat snakes when rodents are not available.
I guess a lot primarily rodent eating snakes will eat snakes when rodents are not available.
- October 16th, 2020, 1:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9053
Re: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
Here in NC, I've seen a photo of a copperhead eating a corn snake (not another viper). I've also seen a couple of photos of black racers eating copperheads, and of course eastern kingsnakes eating various snake species. I use this info, whenever possible, to deter people from killing snakes indiscr...
- October 11th, 2020, 11:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9053
Would a pit viper eat another pit viper
So I saw a YouTube video of a cotton mouth killing and eating a rattlesnake,I'd guess a very small Eastern Diamondback.I couldn't get how to put the video into the post but if you go to youtube and put in "water moccasin eats rattlesnake it should come up. I have never heard of this before,has ...
- June 24th, 2020, 4:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Some young gators from northeastern North Carolina
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4399
Re: Some young gators from northeastern North Carolina
There is supposedly some type of crocodilian species in lake Onota in Pittsfield Massachusetts.The Mass environmental police are staking out the lake in order to see if purported sightings are accurate. Being that Alligator's are not native anywhere near Massachusetts it would have to be an exotic p...
- May 11th, 2020, 3:39 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes possible source of Wuhan coronavirus
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7410
Re: Snakes possible source of Wuhan coronavirus
Horseshoe bats and pangolins were both connected to the virus based on objective genetic matches between sequences in the virus and sequences in viruses hosted by those animals. If it was a conspiracy to blame the Wuhan market, they would have just picked something from the market. The only person ...
- May 10th, 2020, 12:35 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes possible source of Wuhan coronavirus
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7410
Re: Snakes possible source of Wuhan coronavirus
Well, you cant just drop a lug like that and hop over it. I dont think it was fair or accurate to use that as an analogy either. Ernie tends to scaldingly belittle others who he frames as The Enemy. People are afraid to be targeted. Very few members of FHF are willing to address his nastier excesse...
- May 10th, 2020, 7:00 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes possible source of Wuhan coronavirus
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7410
- May 10th, 2020, 3:41 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes possible source of Wuhan coronavirus
- Replies: 52
- Views: 7410
Re: Snakes possible source of Wuhan coronavirus
Bad analogy, hopefully not based on anything but a poorly wrenched figure of speech, as anyone who would enjoy watching cats fight would be deranged to some degree, or a buffoon. A cat fight is a fight between two women,in this case two female gangbangers in an urban setting,inspired from my days a...