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by Fieldherper
October 22nd, 2012, 2:33 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Lizards and a bunch of other stuff
Replies: 18
Views: 4674

Re: Lizards and a bunch of other stuff

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
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
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.
by Fieldherper
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 ...
by Fieldherper
June 15th, 2012, 5:48 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Gartersnake: Diablo, Coast or Both? (update)
Replies: 40
Views: 11369

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...
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
May 5th, 2012, 10:29 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: OBX visit in June
Replies: 1
Views: 680

PM sent

PM
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
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 ...
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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!
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
June 16th, 2011, 7:24 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Long Texas post
Replies: 35
Views: 13054

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
by Fieldherper
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)
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
May 17th, 2011, 8:51 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: ,
Replies: 27
Views: 4865

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. ...
by Fieldherper
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 ...
by Fieldherper
February 2nd, 2011, 9:49 am
Forum: The Forum
Topic: TN man dies of copperhead bite....
Replies: 73
Views: 14539

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 ...
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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
by Fieldherper
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....
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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...
by Fieldherper
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 ...
by Fieldherper
October 5th, 2010, 12:49 pm
Forum: The Forum
Topic: Kent's bite.
Replies: 107
Views: 17902

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...
by Fieldherper
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...