Field Herp Forum

People weren't nearly as excited about my freak uta that I found in the Los Padres last year.

What does a young shovelnose feed on in captivity?

Okay, sweet, I think that it should work from the California chapter page now.

Put in database, as well as the rest of the stuff on my new computer. Nice. Looks like you threw in 4-5 county records and really updated a lot of other species. Plus, we can't see it, but you probably diversified the records in terms of where they are within Washington County as well. Now you just...

I had posted the historical contest leaderboard the week before the crash, and I'm not going to do it again right now, but you can look at the full historical leaderboard (all of this year's entries, regardless of date seen) at this link: http://www.naherp.com/reports/national-contest-historical.php...

I'm sure this is a very different form of herping than you're used to. I have to give you credit for doing as well as you did. I know how hard SoCal was for me... I think you have a great piece of land there. Maybe contact some midwest guys next time you're in town to hone your skills a little. Tha...

Looks like you found a good chunk of what the property has to offer. I would be happy with many of those finds. Well done! Maybe a decent chunk. I think there's still a lot more than that: Sure things I missed: Copperheads, ribbon snakes, brown snakes (on the property, rather than just out in the f...

I don't know how seriously this study should be taken considering the small sample size, time period, and limited background information. I am still skeptical; I think for a conclusion that precise there should be more data to back it up. I didn't see a "precise" conclusion. It seemed more like the...

Is Anza-Borrego all one locality, or is it different at 3500+ feet than it is on the desert floor? http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff45/Jonathan_Daehnke/100_3999.jpg http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff45/Jonathan_Daehnke/100_4002.jpg http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff45/Jonathan_Daehnke/100_...

Nice pics!

I'm just about tired of seeing pictures of blind snakes. I want to see one in real life!!!

Awesome sightings!

It'd be great to get those in the database - for some reason there are no records for Washington County in the NAFHA database for the last three years. And there are no records for skinks, racers, or southern alligator lizards in Washington County at all.

The NAFHA database doesn't have any records for skilton's in Washington County yet (among many other counties, of course). At least get them in there.

Nice post Dave!

Leaderboard update for the April-June contest can be seen on the NAFHA forum:

viewtopic.php?f=12&t=234



If you want to see the entire contest scores for everyone who's submitted a database entry, go to:

http://www.naherp.com/reports/quarterly.php

Here are the current scores for the April to June portion of 2010 National Database Contest. Only herps vouchered in April, May, and June count - you have until June 30th to see the herps and until July 31st to enter them into the database. The link for all the scores is http://www.naherp.com/report...

Man, there had been a great discussion about the data on the previous iteration of the forum. If you said something before about your data and this request, could you go ahead and say it again?

That's cool - I didn't know they got that far west.

I went cruising on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of May. The moon looked nearly full on the 29th and 30th, and was only getting away from it a little on the 31st. The moon wasn't coming up until past 9-10pm, so that gave some cruising time before it took effect. Once the moon did come up, there seemed to...

Are you sure that is a Uta in that picture with the Gopher. Just one of those things to make you say hmmm. Great trip, lots of variety (no more thumbs up icon) :)^^^^^ Nice catch Will! I zoomed in and confirmed that it is actually a fence lizard. I had remembered it as a uta and typed up the post t...

Almost certainly Costa's. I'm fairly sure that I saw those drooping-down feathers on the sides, and the black-chinned looks unfamiliar enough to me that I think I would have remember if I had seen a hummingbird like that. Of course, that's assuming that the male hummingbird I remember seeing actuall...

Are you 100% on the Black-chinned diagnosis Robert? Well truth be told the only way to correctly identify between the female Black-chinned and Costa's is to observe a male as there aren't any distinguishing features between the females of both species. Either way it turns we are both pretty close :...

Correction: that is the very similar California Quail - note the scale pattern on the belly! Generally speaking Gambel's is the desert form while California is the coastal and mountain form (not to be confused with Mountain Quail). The hummer appears to be a Costa's but females are tough and I rare...

Brian Hubbs wrote:I can't get it to show the county by county totals, it just keeps returning to the CA page.

Strange - it seems to be working for me when I click the link, but not when I try to go directly from the NAFHA page (even though that's how I originally got the link).


Psyon - something going on here?

google "ipower" and "complaints" and behold the plethora of unrest on the web.

I've posted on this twice in the last two years, but I thought I'd throw in a mega-post to get things moving for the new board. In the last two years I took two short 3-5 day trips to visit my grandpa in Missouri, and since he lives in an awesome spot in the woods (the paradise of my childhood) I he...

FunkyRes wrote:cool links I don't remember URL to:

One that had a nice table for California showing how many vouchered records existed by species and county.

http://www.nafha.org/california-chapter ... -by-county

I'll repost a few herps from my last couple trips to Oregon. No stories this time, just the pictures and habitat. All this stuff was inputed to the NAFHA database (www.naherp.com). The Northwest is seriously underrepresented in the database. COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE There's a ton more herping I need to ...

Many of the photos won't load for me however I can identify your last two beetles. The beetle doing the headstand is Eleodes sp. and with there being over 120 different species west of the Mississippi I can't narrow it down any further. The last beetle is Nosoderma diabolicum a.k.a. Diabolical Iron...

Thanks for posting Richard's article Funky! Overall I certainly agree with the point and message of the paper. Hopefully our database can start to make some small inroads into these processes, though in most investigations it will be more of a first step than anything else. I don't think that the ex...

That ensatina is gorgeous.

I'll supplement the new Cali forum with pics from my recent trip to the low desert. I hadn't gotten to go to the desert all year this year (and needed to fill up the database), so I hit it hard for the whole Memorial Day weekend. MOUNTAINS On the way down, I stopped in the mountains to try to score ...

I once flipped 4 ringnecks under the same board. And last weekend I got a rubber boa/coast garter double.

Yeah, that's all I got. 15+ snakes of multiple different species under the same board is freaking incredible.

Thought I'd get the news board started with an important one. I was surprised that kraits cause such a high percentage of the snakebite cases in West Bengal.

http://sify.com/news/lack-of-awareness- ... fbbci.html

I like the trend towards using names. Will keep things less confusing when I meet people. Plus, I feel weird when I refer to people by their FHF screenname constantly because I can't remember their real name.

reptile wrote:well, after mere minutes of being "the reptile" i hate it... can i change it? Anybody know how??

Thanks!

R~

PM Scott and he can do it for you.

11 Eastern Garter Snakes
3 Brown Snakes
4 Eastern Garter Snakes

Should that second EGS be something else?

See at least 120 distinct species and enter them into naherp.com by August. I'm at something like 97 now, but I have 13 or 14 more that I've vouchered in the last two weeks that I need to enter. I had more goals, but I forgot most of them. Here are a few: Find a Western Toad in the LA Basin - alread...

This sucks amazingly. I'm trying to remember if any absolutely essential NAFHA stuff is gone...I can think of a number of instructional threads and some important debates that we had about various issues.... I'll post on FHF soon and on NAFHA once those forums get back up. p.s. - as someone mentione...