WIll,
I have to add: Did you find the mano sitting in the hole like that? I've never seen that before. Ever find any arrowheads/projectile points?
FH
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- October 22nd, 2012, 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lizards and a bunch of other stuff
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4674
- October 22nd, 2012, 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Israel family vacation, part 1 - Cerastes trifecta
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8852
Re: Israel family vacation, part 1 - Cerastes trifecta
That's just plain awesome. Finding snakes like that in the field is so much more satisfying than cruising them. Never spent much time tracking sidewinders, but this makes me want to.
FH
FH
- October 17th, 2012, 11:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lizards and a bunch of other stuff
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4674
Re: Lizards and a bunch of other stuff
Herps: 10. Native American sites: 10. Photography: 10. Most excellent. BTW--that rosy range looks mighty familiar and if it's the one I am thinking of (Yavapai Co.) then I have wondered about the boas there as well. Ever come across any projectile points/arrowheads, etc...? Would love to see them. FH.
- September 28th, 2012, 4:51 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Advice on First Herping Adventure and other zonata questions
- Replies: 54
- Views: 8902
Re: Advice on First Herping Adventure and other zonata quest
Guys, Zonata and getula are sympatric throughout nearly every inch of the Santa Cruz Mtns. They can turn up ANYWHERE there. I have spent over 20 years herping that range and I would not be surprised to find either anywhere in the range. lf a Cal king was released, it is not a big deal--it will live ...
- June 15th, 2012, 5:48 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Gartersnake: Diablo, Coast or Both? (update)
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11370
Re: Gartersnake: Diablo, Coast or Both?
Just one question: How bad do your hands smell??????????????????????? I remember when I was 16yrs old catching 2 absolutely enormous Diablo garters in a large reservoir in Santa Clara Co. These things were massive and obviously dined well on lots of fish. I am not exaggerating when I say that they w...
- May 22nd, 2012, 5:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Where to find Atrox??
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6765
Re: Where to find Atrox??
The best place to find atrox in CA....is in Arizona. Seriously, though--they are a low desert snake in CA. Best area is the I-10 corridor from Indio to Blythe in the flats, not rocky areas.
FH
FH
- May 12th, 2012, 4:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nafha Success story
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9885
Re: Nafha Success story
Gary--that record from 12mi N of N. Road is a snake that I picked up and gave to Rick Staub to deposit in the museum. Hellihooks--zonata are also found throughout the entire Santa Lucia range, even though there are few museum records from there. It seems that anyone who lives down there sees them. W...
- May 12th, 2012, 5:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nafha Success story
- Replies: 64
- Views: 9885
Re: Nafha Success story
Hey Gary, Boas are known from nearly the entire Santa Lucia range. I have found them DOR on HW 1 well south of Big Sur (there is a record in MVZ). They should be present in the entire range close to the coast. I think they love the coastal scrub but also make it up the canyons. They are nowhere near...
- May 10th, 2012, 12:06 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New to Nor Cal: Need Help Finding Herps
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3907
Re: New to Nor Cal: Need Help Finding Herps
Looks like you found all the easy stuff, but it really took you two months? You must've been slacking a little.
NOW for a challenge. Try to find a zonata in the all the ranges that they occur in within 100 miles of San Francisco. Some are easy, some are not.
FH
NOW for a challenge. Try to find a zonata in the all the ranges that they occur in within 100 miles of San Francisco. Some are easy, some are not.
FH
- May 5th, 2012, 10:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: OBX visit in June
- Replies: 1
- Views: 680
PM sent
PM
- March 30th, 2012, 11:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Setting out Boards? (Update)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3233
Re: Setting out Boards?
There are plenty of boards to flip all around Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Paulden, etc.... Someone SUPPOSEDLY found milks under boards near PV. What I have found is: tons of Mojaves, tons of gophers, many CA kings, few longnose (everywhere at night,) ground snakes, and night snakes. Tried hard fo...
- September 27th, 2011, 7:54 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: username origination-per request
- Replies: 121
- Views: 13355
Re: username origination-per request
I love that commercial as well. If it's an option, I always have to order the mango salsa.
FH
FH
- September 27th, 2011, 7:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Is this a Southern Hog or Eastern Hog?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3006
Re: Is this a Southern Hog or Eastern Hog?
Before I found my first simus, I was asking myself the same question, especially when I found different color phases of platyrhinos. Once you find a simus, however, you realize that they are completely different animals in many ways. The simus has a shorter head and more upturned rostral. Simus are ...
- September 26th, 2011, 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Septembering herps...
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3384
Re: Septembering herps...
Great photos from my old stomping grounds. I never tire of seeing my old friends, even fence lizards, alligator lizards, etc.... That's a large rattler from that area. I think your second garter is a Santa Cruz garter and the 4th garter looks a lot like a red-sided with diminished red. Now go find s...
- September 22nd, 2011, 6:16 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: New issue of Herp Nation Magazine
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3608
Envenomation protocol
It's posted on page 2 of the blog.
Here you go: http://www.herpnation.com/wp-content/up ... kebite.pdf
Here you go: http://www.herpnation.com/wp-content/up ... kebite.pdf
- September 21st, 2011, 5:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Anyone available for herping the Outer Banks NC?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2534
Re: Anyone available for herping the Outer Banks NC?
No EDBs on the OBX. The closest they get is Southeast NC and they are extremely rare at this point. Essentially no one ever finds them in NC. There are canebrakes near the Obx, however. Good luck and happy herping.
FH
FH
- September 21st, 2011, 11:06 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Some from Summer - Joplin Tornado, Floods and parts west
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4159
Excellent stuff, as usual
Awesome stuff as usual. Really nice tiger sallie in the addendum; where is he from?
FH
FH
- September 13th, 2011, 6:34 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ANOTHER RATTLESNAKE BITE VICTIM
- Replies: 59
- Views: 10169
Re: ANOTHER RATTLESNAKE BITE VICTIM
A few points in the thread that I feel compelled to address: -People have had severe, life-threatening envenomations from sidewinders, copperheads, and other "mild" pit vipers. -Crofab and other lyophilized antivenom products do expire, but their true shelf life far exceeds the manufacture...
- June 25th, 2011, 8:56 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Montana dries out. And I've got Poison Ivy on me.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5828
You gotta watch that Epic Beard Man dude...
Keep yer eye on that one!
- June 16th, 2011, 7:28 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: REPOST: More wild Elaphe c. carinata
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5816
Re: REPOST: More wild Elaphe c. carinata
"For me, Eau de King Rat is a perfectly balanced mixture of ammonia, burnt dog poo, and raw sewage from a really bad seafood restaurant, topped off with a generous hint of half-fermented kitty piss and then distilled to weapons-grade quality." Now that is descriptive prose at its best. Hi...
- June 16th, 2011, 7:24 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Long Texas post
- Replies: 35
- Views: 13056
Re: Long Texas post
Wow. What an excellent collection of some less oft seen TX herps. Hardly ever see Ficimia here (if ever?) Nice to see a blue spiny and a reticulate collared as well.
FH
FH
- June 13th, 2011, 12:20 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: California, Pt 2 of 2
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5420
Re: California, Pt 2 of 2
Hey Matt,
Killer posts and photos, as always. You guys really dominated. Nothing beats herping with your boy. Mine is 3 and has already been on several small excursions. Now when are you going to get over to the CA coast to find some of those z's?
FH (BG)
Killer posts and photos, as always. You guys really dominated. Nothing beats herping with your boy. Mine is 3 and has already been on several small excursions. Now when are you going to get over to the CA coast to find some of those z's?
FH (BG)
- June 13th, 2011, 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Epic Nevada trip part 2/2 snakes DUW
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5469
Re: Epic Nevada trip part 2/2 snakes DUW
Sweet couple of posts from a relatively infrequently herped state. Good work in getting off the beaten path. Great photos.
FH
FH
- May 27th, 2011, 2:22 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Help restore the Sharp Park wetlands for the SF Garter snake
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2402
Re: Help restore the Sharp Park wetlands for the SF Garter s
I agree that it would be awesome to restore garter snake habitat on the peninsula. As far as zonata go, they are doing great and remain common throughout their range. 20 years ago, when I didn't know how to find them, I thought that all of the development in the SC mtns must have severely reduced th...
- May 26th, 2011, 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: It takes two to tango
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2073
Re: It takes two to tango
"heading up the same road I see this crazy spinning thing in the row and it looks like someone clipped a oreganus (thickness) and it was just in a violent spin. " From this, I inferred that it was not side to side movement. Male to male combat in CA kings occurs the way he described it. A...
- May 26th, 2011, 10:02 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: It takes two to tango
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2073
Re: It takes two to tango
Cool find. It is definitely 2 males in combat. I saw the exact same thing in Spring 1994 in the Santa Cruz Mtns. I was driving down a rural street with a few houses when something caught my eye in the grass next to a driveway. There were 2 male CA kings rotating around one another very fast. It look...
Re: Are Apalachicola Kings really declining?
I have tried to look for AKs a total of 4 days with no luck. What struck me about the area is the lack of GOOD getula-conducive AC to flip. There some garbage/AC to flip along certain roads, but not much of it looked good for kings. Road cruising is generally not that productive for Eastern getula. ...
- April 6th, 2011, 6:21 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A few rubber boas from today and stepping on boards
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2873
Re: A few rubber boas from today and stepping on boards
Anyone ever turn up a z there? I have always wanted to know how far North on the peninsula they go. As far as that spot getting too much traffic---like Brian said, it may be time to move on and set up your own spots. I generally shun sites that get regular traffic. Nothing beats setting up your own ...
- February 2nd, 2011, 9:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: TN man dies of copperhead bite....
- Replies: 73
- Views: 14540
Re: TN man dies of copperhead bite....
Interesting case report. As an emergency physician/avid fieldherper who is involved in the treatment of dozens of copperhead envenomings in NC every year, I can say that I have never seen a copperhead-related fatality in nearly 10 years of practice here. There are may be a few fatality case reports ...
- January 28th, 2011, 9:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Monument Valley (No Herps)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2556
Re: Monument Valley (No Herps)
Regarding the attitudes of the local Native Americans toward snakes. Didn't the Hopi Indians perform the snake dances in that general area? It's been awhile since I read Klauber, but I recall some information about the snake dances there. The Indians would collect rattlers to use in the dance during...
- January 5th, 2011, 6:34 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 2010, part 2
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3345
Re: 2010
Awesome. Loved.....everything, really. The hogs digging were probably my favorite, though.
FH
FH
- December 20th, 2010, 8:47 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Explain this to me.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1884
Re: Explain this to me.
Another way of looking at it: The only place where the ranges of these 2 animals possibly come into contact at the present time is the E. San Diego Co. desert. I am not aware of anyone finding the 2 animals in the same place, although if they don't come into contact, they are undoubtedly very close....
- December 6th, 2010, 8:21 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Black-Headed Snakes in Southern California?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6015
Re: Black-Headed Snakes in Southern California?
I have had my best luck in rock-on-dirt situations in western Riverside county. Any of the inland valley areas with boulder-strewn hillsides are good. The soil should be moist and temps not too hot (rocks cool-warm, but not hot to the touch.) I would bet that you could flip them at this time of year...
- October 28th, 2010, 7:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Road Cruising Soundtracks
- Replies: 89
- Views: 13141
Re: Road Cruising Soundtracks
Snake-themed: Metallica "Slither"--opening line: "Don't go looking for snakes, you might find them"---Yeah, no sh**, that's the point! Anything Metallica rocks. Metallica "Don't tread on me." Steve Earle "Coppherhead Road" Other Essentials: Dire Straits EAGLES...
- October 15th, 2010, 5:03 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Why are kraits (Bungarus) so toxic?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2722
Re: Why are kraits (Bungarus) so toxic?
Hans, Other snake-eating elapids can be extremely toxic as well. Take for example the New World coral snakes (primarily of the genus Micrurus .) Most have highly potent neurotoxins to immobilize their small serpentine or lacertid prey (they will occacionally take other animals, but are far and away ...
- October 5th, 2010, 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Kent's bite.
- Replies: 107
- Views: 17903
Re: Kent's bite.
All, First, I hope Kent has a speedy recovery---a bite from a big helleri is life and limb-threatening (as most of us know.) It sounds like Bill and Kent did absolutely everything right, so major kudos to you guys! Second, this can happen to ANYONE who herps. I don't care how good you are. You can't...
- September 24th, 2010, 10:28 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Monterey/Carmel Valley Herping
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2009
Salinas zonata
Hey Bewilderbeast, I grew up between Salinas and Monterey and still visit a few times every year. Monterey Co. is still my favorite place to herp in the world. I am still trying to figure some things out there. I spent TONS of time looking for zonata in the areas around the Monterey Bay. I have foun...