Highlights from my 2012 season from Mo. and a lil bit of Ks.

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Brandon D
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Highlights from my 2012 season from Mo. and a lil bit of Ks.

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Here are just the highlights of my year, My fall was very uneventful due to the weather. The best thing I found this fall was a new awesome area in Cass county Mo.

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A couple snakes I found this fall from Jackson co Mo.

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and heres the highlights from the rest of my year

This was the nicest racer I found all year
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Crayfish snake from cass co Mo.
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Heres the calligaster's from this year

Cass county Mo.

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Henry co Mo.

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Jackson co. Mo.

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GP narrow mouthed toad from cass co Mo.
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I stumbled on these guys mating in late march in Jackson Co Mo.
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collaris found throughout jackson county

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Jackson co Mo. copperheads
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in situ
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Platte co Mo phaeogasters
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this black rat snake I thought was very nice I don't see a lot of the jet black and white ones
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rough green snake
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Jackson co Mo. Holbrooki
I found this one in mid March
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I think this pretty holbrooki had just eaten a syspila about the same size as it :(
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Crotalus.h.h from Johnson co Ks.
in situ
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Its always a joy and challenge to photograph these
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This was my first syspila of the year in situ
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Platte co Mo syspila
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Henry co Mo syspila
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county mo syspila
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Eastern Ks L.t.syspila

in situ
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in situ
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some habitat from the great kansas state
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My daughter after her first big outing
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A few more random pics from my year
for those that like fishing pics heres a few channels
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if you cant tell I was very happy with this beauty
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This area needs rain pretty bad, this fall was very dry
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This is the smallest flat head catfish I ever caught
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A few pieces of broken flint i found
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Here's Some White tail pics
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That pretty much was my year in the field, Im sure theres some I forgot to throw in hope you all enjoyed,
I hope this year is very fruitful to yall good luck and
Cheers :beer:
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Nice! Love the in-situ shots, particularly the tins. Good think you have those other books stacked on top of Hubbs', something's gotta hold those lightweights down! ;)
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Absolutely loved this post.
The "in-situ, as flipped" shots were amazing! Really brought be to those rock fields and tin lines!

Although all those snakes were great (especially that little milk from Eastern Ks), I think my favorite shot were of the Collard Lizards in-situ under a rock!

All the pics of Collards here (and in books, etc) show them basking or bouncing around rock to rock. Very cool to see them underneath cover!
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Dig it... especially the milks and that Gastrophryne.

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Good stuff, Brandon. Love all the PK's. I didn't find a single one in Arkansas or Oklahoma this year.
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Yup, that was some kick-ass stuff. Love the milks. Really nice variety of reptiles and scenery as well sir.

RocK ON!
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Hello Brandon,
Love those milks.Were the flint points found near or in stream beds or in the fields?
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Zach_Lim wrote:...I think my favorite shot were of the Collard Lizards in-situ under a rock! All the pics of Collards here (and in books, etc) show them basking or bouncing around rock to rock. Very cool to see them underneath cover!
Hi Zach, I was looking for milksnakes on a roadcut in Kansas in 2011 and was surprised when I found this one under a big rock. Beautiful animal. And feisty! I got a great video of it lunging at my camera lens. I had no idea they were so pretty.

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Awesome stuff. Love that area. Nice artifacts as well--that's my main hobby other than herping. Herpers would find tons of arrowheads and other artifacts if they were part of their search image. Did you find them in a creek/lakeshore area?

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Love all the habitat shots Brandon. Cass Co. looks interesting. Always love the syspila, but that Timber would have made my year.

Do you ever catch/find Snapping turtles while Catfish fishing?

John F. would be happy with those arrowheads you've found. And your daughter is getting big, didn't you just have her like two months ago. :)

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Thanks everyone for the kind words :beer:
to comment and answer some questions Zach a big part of why collareds are not seen under cover is because it's usually hard to get an in situ photo of them like that, a lot of times they run out before you can get the rock all the way up.

Some of the artfiacts were found in a creek and some were found in my buddies back yard, the creek is not that far from my buddies yard either.

Dell I have two daughters lol, One of them is three and the other is one. That Cass co spot is very unique for the area it looks more typical of a really nice Ks spot, most the outcroppings in cass are not vary vast and are spotty, this area is huge theres no way I would be able to hunt it all in one day by myself. I rarely catch snapping turtles while cat fishing, I usually use live bait though, when I use stinky dead bait, or chicken livers I do sometimes catch them, I catch red eared sliders with fresh cut bait sometimes as well, I usually have to snip the barb end off my hooks to unhook them so I dont damage the turtles to bad.
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Looks like a great year, I love Kansas.
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that baby flathead. was that really a flathead? i've found madtoms that i thought were flatheads. that would be a serious aquarium fish. we always tried to find the smallest of everything. you can fit a lot of cool fish in an aquarium that way. i think the smallest flatty i ever got was around six inches. flatheads are awesome. i like how they paste about four feet of slime on your line. easy to tell what you had on when you lose them. nice herping year as well.

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I think I've found a couple of those Kansas milks before! Off to look at my albums.


Nice stuff dude! That new spot is WICKED. Awesome Caligaster. I hate winter.


Nice work!

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Congrats on a great year Brandon! :thumb:

Very nice milks and really liked the habitat and insitu pics!

Nice channels and loved the little flathead!

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I was way wrong.... Lol

Yours:
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Mine: (similar, but no dice. It's the funny dot on the nose that I thought I recognized. also, Mine was found in 2010, and would be BIG by now. )
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Yours:
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It was the two dots, but no dice here either. not too similar after all, and yours has a misband.
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by the way I LOVE this one: such a beauty!
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Justin thanks buddy I like Mo better than Ks although Ks is a lot easier, I would love and will get to the east side of Mo and into your state soon :beer:

Ben
I am pretty sure It was a flat head I have never found a madtom, I found 7 others that day around the same size one was about three times the size it was found in deeper water and under a log, that one I found while looking for arrowheads and bait in farely shallow water in early august. It would have been a great aqaurium fish and I thought that when i found him, but I think its best to have one set up prior to finding such a specimen

Gary thanks for the words my friend hopefully we can get together this year and flip some nice flat slabs of limestone together
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Dan Yeah I think my snakes were from diferent counties and the last one was from a diferent state I thought I marked the county and state prior to the photos? Yours look like that one county in Ks that has Mo. looking milks in it the one county the county my Ks milks were from was a tiny bit south and west from that awesome county your milks were from this county is awesome as well but just doesnt have the same qaulity, tons of qauntity though, be good to flip some nice flat slabs of limestone with you too buddy!
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