Field Herp Forum

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...

Much appreciated Scott ,thanks

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

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

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.

I think the strips are to substantial to be anything other than Desert King snake.

JWO wrote: ↑July 7th, 2024, 2:36 pm I’d say Desert Kingsnake

I would agree ,although faint the rings are clear which indicates the Desert King.The Mexican King is black and no strips .

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...

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...

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...

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/22/euro ... index.html

The article did not say which sub species of Green Mamba it is

Here is an as they call it "Indian Summer" fall copperhead in New England

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...

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 ...

A baby central Massachusetts hoggie ,very cute

"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...

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/06/m ... slist.html

A type of Bush Viper without a known accepted anti-venom

hcarlton wrote: ↑June 2nd, 2023, 12:37 pm Photo is of a northern water snake, so that record is out.

I had thought too a Nerodia Sipedon (common watersnake) too or maybe a large milk snake

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

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!

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.

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...

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.

www.necn.com/two-dogs-recovering-after- ... n/2810030/

Two dogs bitten by Timber Rattlesnake in Glastonbury Connecticut

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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Ever seen a real Massachusetts native Timber Rattlesnake?

Here it is,I think this is from the Mt Everett area in the southern Berkshires

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

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...

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.

Were seeing more and more snakes eating snakes that weren't previously known for eating snakes

Wikipedia has always worked for me.

BillMcGighan wrote: ↑October 22nd, 2020, 3:29 pm A DOR is a herp that is "Dead On Road".
Yes there are AORs

Ok I understand ,around here people call that "road kill" or sometimes slang "road pizza"

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 ...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Kelly Mc wrote: ↑May 10th, 2020, 4:25 am you're easy to clock as scurred a showties nucklen as such n such.

My sense of humor is whacky but back on topic,is there any real provable evidence for pangolins?

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...