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- October 14th, 2011, 3:33 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: San Francisco, East Texas, and the Blue Ridge
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3220
San Francisco, East Texas, and the Blue Ridge
Hello all, The Texas drought has been continuing at full force, but July did bring some scattered rain. Herping during this time was more productive than most days this summer. I was pretty excited to flip this brute, the first live adult of the western subspecies I’ve seen. Masticophis flagellum te...
- October 9th, 2011, 6:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NAFHA Survey at Frenchtown Road - 8 month report
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3868
Re: NAFHA Survey at Frenchtown Road - 8 month report
Very cool! How much have you guys been dipnetting? I'm a little surprised by the lack of Siren and Amphiuma.
- October 9th, 2011, 3:23 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Strange looking rat snake
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3019
Re: Strange looking rat snake
It's a yellow-bellied racer, Coluber constrictor flaviventris . They have that pattern as juveniles but change radically over the first two or three years. One in transition: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5176781480_092d66726e_z.jpg And an adult: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5065/5689169294_...
- October 9th, 2011, 3:17 pm
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Emergency bird ID...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1482
Re: Emergency bird ID...
Awesome. I saw some of those and brown noddy's on Hawaii and they're very cool. I love pelagic birds.
- October 9th, 2011, 11:57 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Ultra Wide Angle lens suggestions?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5458
- September 27th, 2011, 4:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: snake road at larue
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5906
Re: snake road at larue
Seriously... Amusing thread.
- September 26th, 2011, 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Post your pic PLEASE EASTERN INDIGO SNAKE
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8082
Re: Post your pic PLEASE EASTERN INDIGO SNAKE
The last picture posted is AWESOME. Hugo may just be the coolest snake I've ever seen.
- September 26th, 2011, 5:52 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Interactive Field Herping!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3274
Re: Interactive Field Herping!
Herpetologists let things go after they find them? "As always"?
- September 26th, 2011, 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Post your pic PLEASE EASTERN INDIGO SNAKE
- Replies: 27
- Views: 8082
Re: Post your pic PLEASE EASTERN INDIGO SNAKE
Dan, check Pierson Hill's Flickr account. He has the best indigo photos I've seen.
- September 23rd, 2011, 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: black pine
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2987
Re: black pine
Awesome! Could you share something about how it was found?
- September 22nd, 2011, 8:55 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Private Forum or Chapter...? How do you feel..?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11932
Re: Private Forum or Chapter...? How do you feel..?
I would, however, support remedial instruction in english composition and spelling for certain forum members ;) Word up! The way one's grammer affects the overal image of their intelligence is tremendous. Yeah...the same way spelling skills reflect on one's intelligence. LOL! I will plead ignorance...
- September 22nd, 2011, 8:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Private Forum or Chapter...? How do you feel..?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11932
Re: Private Forum or Chapter...? How do you feel..?
Word up!BChambers wrote:I would, however, support remedial instruction in english composition and spelling for certain forum members
The way one's grammer affects the overal image of their intelligence is tremendous.
- September 22nd, 2011, 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Private Forum or Chapter...? How do you feel..?
- Replies: 70
- Views: 11932
Re: Private Forum or Chapter...? How do you feel..?
Sounds rather elitist to make a Business Lounge on FieldHerpForum. FHF is for newbies to get started in the hobby... Jesus if photography was anything like herping you couldn't find a lens review with a Google search, not to mention a website like Strobist. Also, I don't fully understand how posting...
- September 10th, 2011, 1:58 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: put up your rig!!!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5225
Re: put up your rig!!!!
Thanks Mitch. I don't have any pics on hand really, but the setup is pretty basic... Nikon D300, Nikon 105mm VR for close-up, Nikon 24mm AF-D or 18-200mm VR for wide-angle/lizard stuff, SB-800 (which has recently been shot through a Lumiquest LTp softbox, off-camera). Natural light goes a loooong wa...
- September 9th, 2011, 8:52 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: put up your rig!!!!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5225
Re: put up your rig!!!!
Mitch, how do you like that Wimberley bracket? I'm thinking of getting one for a Nikon speedlight with a Lumiquest LTp softbox. Do you think it's large enough for that?
- September 6th, 2011, 4:38 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: West Texas Trip and a few late summer herps
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5547
Re: West Texas Trip and a few late summer herps
Speaking of handling rattlesnakes, it's really cool that you do that in your videos. Hollanders, you are the first person to compliment me on holding rattlers. I am glad I finally found something in my vids you like. YES!! Nice quality on the vids plus you pack a lot of info in a short vid. I know ...
- September 6th, 2011, 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Jesse Jones Park Bio-Blitz
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6170
Re: Jesse Jones Park Bio-Blitz
Were the newts aquatic or terrestrial?
- September 6th, 2011, 2:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Jesse Jones Park Bio-Blitz
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6170
Re: Jesse Jones Park Bio-Blitz
I won't be able to make it as I'll be in the Smokies. Have you found anything in the park at all lately?
- September 6th, 2011, 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: West Texas Trip and a few late summer herps
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5547
Re: West Texas Trip and a few late summer herps
Awesome that you had permission, and that's not meant sarcastically.
- September 5th, 2011, 8:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: West Texas Trip and a few late summer herps
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5547
Re: West Texas Trip and a few late summer herps
Unless you have a permit, I strongly urge you to not discuss the Threatened status of horridus in Texas and handle it a few seconds later. Speaking of handling rattlesnakes, it's really cool that you do that in your videos.
- September 5th, 2011, 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ID Help - DOR Mammal
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7817
Re: ID Help - DOR Mammal
A Fisher perhaps?
- September 4th, 2011, 11:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Field Pics from Peru
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4720
Re: Field Pics from Peru
Holy shit... a jaguar...
- September 3rd, 2011, 5:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Kraits and Komodos - 2011 DUW
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4722
Re: Kraits and Komodos - 2011 DUW
Very cool post. Nice commentary too.
- September 2nd, 2011, 7:55 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Albino Butlers Garter & Case Closed
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5665
Re: Albino Butlers Garter & Case Closed
Holy shit. Very cool documentation of natural history.
- September 2nd, 2011, 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Some Canadian Crotalus
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4038
Re: Some Canadian Crotalus
Great post. Love the amphibians, and it seems like all the herps are prettier up there, judging from your shots.
- September 1st, 2011, 8:16 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: TD Thirteen
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2195
Re: TD Thirteen
I was watching this with anxiety and I was more than just a little pissed when the forecast kept changing for the worse....
- September 1st, 2011, 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Zululand, KZN, South Africa.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6926
Re: Zululand, KZN, South Africa.
Badass post. How do they estimate the gaboon viper population?
- August 30th, 2011, 8:01 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bracken Cave
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3628
Re: Bracken Cave
Awesome stuff Jason. The Waugh St. bridge in Houston has about 300,000 that fly out every night.
- August 28th, 2011, 3:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: What is this?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4077
Re: What is this?
Looks like a hypomelanistic cyrtopsis or something?
- August 26th, 2011, 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Best herp!
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4333
Re: Best herp!
Damn Kevin, that is one solid shot. Here's my contribution. They may be trash herps to some but they're my favorite anuran in southeast Texas. Bufo nebulifer http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/5639177607_2c38ab59c7_z.jpg Oh, I'm one of the few rational people that have chosen to let their lawns tu...
- August 26th, 2011, 3:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Best herp!
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4333
Re: Best herp!
Damn Kevin, that is one solid shot. Here's my contribution. They may be trash herps to some but they're my favorite anuran in southeast Texas. Bufo nebulifer http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5261/5639177607_2c38ab59c7_z.jpg NICE! Where'd you manage to find one of those around here? I know it's been t...
- August 26th, 2011, 3:38 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Best herp!
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4333
- August 25th, 2011, 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Wheres the Best places in Tennessee to field herp!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2015
Re: Wheres the Best places in Tennessee to field herp!
Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- August 25th, 2011, 5:19 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Nikon Macro Lens Help?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6720
Re: Nikon Macro Lens Help?
Chris,
I understood what you're saying, but as Bufo pointed out, it's incorrect. The 18-55mm DX will only work on a DX camera, which you know, but remains to have a "true" focal length of 27-83mm.
I understood what you're saying, but as Bufo pointed out, it's incorrect. The 18-55mm DX will only work on a DX camera, which you know, but remains to have a "true" focal length of 27-83mm.
- August 25th, 2011, 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bracken Cave
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3628
Re: Bracken Cave
Cool.
- August 24th, 2011, 2:58 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Nikon Macro Lens Help?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6720
Re: Nikon Macro Lens Help?
Chris, I don't think what you're saying is true? I think the focal length still has to be converted on a DX lens...
- August 23rd, 2011, 8:27 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Nikon Macro Lens Help?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6720
Re: Nikon Macro Lens Help?
Although the crop factor wasn't previously mentioned, he still shoots with an 18-55 and thus should have a pretty good feel for what a 60mm macro looks like.
- August 22nd, 2011, 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Photo Request, Herps eating roadkill
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5580
- August 21st, 2011, 5:21 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Nikon Macro Lens Help?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6720
Re: Nikon Macro Lens Help?
I would go for the 105mm, but that may be slightly out of your budget. I always end up recommending this lens because it seems like the best all-around lens for herps. It's telephoto enough to get great close-ups, but wide enough to allow full body shots of most North American snakes. It's one of th...
- August 17th, 2011, 4:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sierra Madre, Guerrero, Mexico 16/08/11 Sceloporus
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2680
Re: Sierra Madre, Guerrero, Mexico 16/08/11 Sceloporus
Very cool. I like how the females act like males.
- August 16th, 2011, 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A walk on the beach
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2079
Re: A walk on the beach
Best post of the summer. SWEET!
- August 16th, 2011, 2:07 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Which one?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1742
Re: Which one?
Brick, I agree with Chris. I don't think the landscape shot works but the portrait one would work well if it was cropped slightly different. You can e-mail me the original and I can crop it to my liking if you want?
- August 14th, 2011, 9:09 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Louisiana, Alabama, and the Great Smoky Mountains (DUW)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6992
Re: Louisiana, Alabama, and the Great Smoky Mountains (DUW)
Here you go, man.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 0308001127
I don't know enough about them using genetics to lift/create species/subspecies but this is the paper.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 0308001127
I don't know enough about them using genetics to lift/create species/subspecies but this is the paper.
- August 10th, 2011, 11:01 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Louisiana, Alabama, and the Great Smoky Mountains (DUW)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6992
Re: Louisiana, Alabama, and the Great Smoky Mountains (DUW)
Badass post. I'm amazed at how casually you write about all those amphiumas. I'd be ecstatic to find one. That intergrade racer looks REALLY awesome too.
As for the Acris, that subspecies has been lifted. I believe they're all A. blanchardi now?
As for the Acris, that subspecies has been lifted. I believe they're all A. blanchardi now?
- August 10th, 2011, 2:19 pm
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Hawk ID
- Replies: 2
- Views: 993
Re: Hawk ID
If it was the size of a red-shouldered hawk I would have to guess Cooper's Hawk as well.
- August 2nd, 2011, 7:42 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Stupid Question ( oh gawd! Not again!!!!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4080
Re: Stupid Question ( oh gawd! Not again!!!!)
Are there any issues with night herping photography and on camera flash with these types of lenses? I can't answer that question, maybe someone else can? I know that a normal speedlight works fine at these close distances, though it's possible the on-camera flash would over-shoot it. Thanks Eric, q...
- August 2nd, 2011, 6:55 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Stupid Question ( oh gawd! Not again!!!!)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4080
Re: Stupid Question ( oh gawd! Not again!!!!)
For all practical purposes, I love a macro lens around 100mm (105mm for Nikon). Although it's tough to get really close up images of small frogs (below is a picture of a metamorph Rana at minimum focus distance) and somewhat tricky when working with large snakes (particularly rat snakes as they don'...
- August 2nd, 2011, 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A life changing experience
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4041
Re: A life changing experience
I tend not to carry needles with me when I'm in the field, so I can't think of any non-damaging ways to kill a snake.
I will admit, before I started pickling I did run over hit-but-still-alive species, although that seems like a waste now.
I will admit, before I started pickling I did run over hit-but-still-alive species, although that seems like a waste now.
- August 1st, 2011, 10:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A life changing experience
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4041
Re: A life changing experience
If a snake is still writhing from being hit, I just put it in a plastic bag and toss it in the cooler. Dan Please tell me you mercy kill it first. I don't... although it does bother me somewhat to make it suffer its way to death. However, killing it on the go will almost always result in damaging t...
- August 1st, 2011, 6:13 pm
- Forum: Reading Room
- Topic: Some people have all the luck I guess
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2359
Re: Some people have all the luck I guess
That's a nice looking viper rat snake.