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I know I have more that aren't uploaded, but here are a few:

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- Brandon Bowers and Scott Wahlberg with a Texas patchnose I believe

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- Patrick Alexander, ChrisNM, Diana, Ian, and Jeff

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- Max with a handful of pyros

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- ChrisNM harassing an alterna from New Mexico

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- ChrisNM arguing with the 7'+ gopher snake

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- Patrick Alexander photographing a klauberi

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- me with a large Sonoran whipsnake

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- ph and pricei

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- KCMatt and Matt Ingrasci in the hills of Kansas

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- photograph of me photographing a blotched water snake

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- Brandon Bowers cooling off in the Guadalupe Mountains and then becoming Swamp Jesus in the process
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The best so far in this thread. Damn, that's a FUNNY picture!

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gbin wrote:You'll of course be wanting to edit your post above to remove that picture, then, to avoid encouraging anyone else to do anything stupid - or even just to spare both yourself and this otherwise fine forum thread further embarrassment. Right?...
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justinm wrote:Wow :shock: Don't call yourself a herper, herpetologist, pro snake handler etc. when you're in agony in an ER. You're only drag the good people down.
I reckon I could always use the "I sat down to rest on a log and when I put beside me all I felt was sharp pain on my forefinger" excuse (from an old discovery channel documentary "Stings, Fangs, n Spines"). Hey, whatever gets my insurance to cover it, right? ;)
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Ecto Hunter wrote:
gbin wrote:You'll of course be wanting to edit your post above to remove that picture, then, to avoid encouraging anyone else to do anything stupid - or even just to spare both yourself and this otherwise fine forum thread further embarrassment. Right?...
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justinm wrote:Wow :shock: Don't call yourself a herper, herpetologist, pro snake handler etc. when you're in agony in an ER. You're only drag the good people down.
I reckon I could always use the "I sat down to rest on a log and when I put beside me all I felt was sharp pain on my forefinger" excuse (from an old discovery channel documentary "Stings, Fangs, n Spines"). Hey, whatever gets my insurance to cover it, right? ;)
Hello Ecto, I respect your willingness to remove your photograph as well as your willingness to take (somewhat unfriendly and poorly delivered) criticism well. Many times people enter into this community without foreknowledge of what's appropriate and what's inappropriate to post publicly so you're certainly not the first one. It's also not obvious that you posting this photo does anything to contribute to the safety or lack of safety of others, people are responsible for their own actions. Really the only valid excuses for asking you to remove your pics are predicated upon the fact that impressionalbe children view this site and that impressionable non-herping anti-herpers might get the wrong idea about the willingness of our community to embrace and advertise the more dangerous aspects of field herping through the promotion of the danger and holding venomous creatures. I say, if you want to do it, do it...but if you post, expect to get responses like you have.
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chad ks wrote:... Ecto, I respect your willingness to remove your photograph as well as your willingness to take (somewhat unfriendly and poorly delivered) criticism well...
Aside from Chad's criticism of the criticism (on which I'm withholding judgment ;) ), I concur! :thumb:

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crocdoc wrote: Me with my very first wild monitor, Varanus panoptes, circa 1981. I only take in-situ shots of monitors these days, but check out my death grip on the poor thing's neck!
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Well, it is a boy :shock:
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Ecto Hunter wrote:I apologise to anyone I may have or did, indeed, offend w/ this picture. At least I wasn't kissing it, I suppose.
I really really have to hold myself back about updating my avatar.
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My friend and great herper, Jay, flippin' tin in central Connecticut

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Jay again in Orange County, NY during a 2007 field herping trip.

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Kyle Loucks checking carpet in New jersey. Circa 2007.

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Myself with a Northern Black Racer in central Connecticut.

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(sorry about the chopped heads, guys) Forum members Kyle Loucks, Jay Jacoby (I believe), TimCO and Ryan AKA Eyezoftheworld photographing yet another racer in NJ. June 2009.

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Kyle Loucks checking a roadside ditch :lol: as MattJ, ElliotH, Garter Guy and a non forum friend watch on. Delmarva 2010.

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Kari Post checking out an Eastern Kingsnake as Andrew Snyder prepares a shot. Delmarva 2010.

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The crew hiking a country road during the Northeast Chapter Delmarva trip.
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Mike VanValen wrote:Kyle Loucks checking a roadside ditch :lol: as MattJ, ElliotH, Garter Guy and a non forum friend watch on. Delmarva 2010.
"Watch on"? You mean laugh uncontrollably at Kyle. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Do ya see the pants?..took one for the team. Needed to entertain you guys in case you were getting bored.
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Yeah this is a great post. Awesome having photos of everyone in one place! There are so many incredible shots of some of the best memories we all have in our lives I'm sure. Here are mine from over the years:

Jamie, Chad, and Kevin out West:
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Chad getting a good view seeing if there are any gentilis on the move in the distance:
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Kevin, Jamie, and myself with gentilis and collaris:
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The great group in IL:
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Kevin walking the Road:
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Myself with a friend:
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Jamie and a phaeogaster:
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Chris Lockard and a dangerous ringneck:
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Chris and a phaeogaster:
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Mike Rochford and a syspila:
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Mike (in his StD shirt), Chad, and uh...can't remember and can't tell who is on the left:
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Couple of old frieds David, Monte, and Brian at 10-acre rock in OK:
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Chad and a KS pit:
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Jamie and a friend at the Fitch Reservation:
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Chad and the pale milk:
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Myself shooting a horridus:
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Myself shooting a horridus:
Didn't know you could fix a camera with a snake hook :-)
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Hans Breuer (twoton) wrote:
Myself shooting a horridus:
Didn't know you could fix a camera with a snake hook :-)
Yep, that's the only way I could think of to get this shot:

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Ahhhhh- I get it! Clever!
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Post by RobK »

Joe, Tim, and I had the pleasure of hanging out with Bill Flowers (from Tasmania) recently.
This was his first trip to the states so everything was a lifer.
He's an artist, so pretty much every snake we found he'd whip out the sketch pad and do his thing.
It was amazing to watch how quickly he could draw the snake in front of him.

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Sketching a very small viridis.

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Bill and Joe with a Colorado Masticophis flagellum.

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Sketching the coach.

He was kicked out of a local restaurant down in SE Colorado b/c of his shirt. Sheesh.
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That's really cool. I wish we could see some of the sketches.
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http://www.snakeartist.com/

I'd like to see that viridis scetch.
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Garterguy and Andy Wolf
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...with Rough Green Snake
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Rare glimpse of spinifer.
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Jonathan
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Mike VanValen and black rat snake
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Kari Post, Garterguy and Charles...
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MattJ and Copes Gray Treefrog on window.
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ElliotH, AndrewS, MattJ, Garterguy, Charles and 3 of Elliots friends fascinated by northern cricket frogs in a puddle.
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NoTread
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Putting the feedbag on before a long herping day in the mountains of Pa.
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Brick911
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My daughter Kacie (rt) and her friend out froggin with me one evening.
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yours truly... dogs on snake hook.
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Well, this is an OLD photo of a very-well known herper taken about 36 years ago as he uses an English-Spanish dictionary to communicate with one of the locals in the boonies of Colima, Mexico.

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Anyone care to identify him? :?:

Sorry about the quality of the photo....The years have taken a toll on its quality.


-Gerald
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I don't know why, but I seriously can't stop laughing at this picture.
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Sorry about the quality of the photo....The years have taken a toll on its quality.
I don't know the mystery herper, but let me crank up my time machine really quick and get a little clearer picture for ya, :) .
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Nice photos. I'm surprised by the lack of tripods when people are taking pics. I can't get a very good photo without one for the life of me, but perhaps digital makes it easier? I dunno. Nice pics though!
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Herping with good company is half the fun.


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Young and Matt Cage

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Erik McCormick, Rob Dobbs, Bill Gorum and Elijah Wostl

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Joe Farah

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CJ Vialpando, Matt Cage, Brandon Cage, Josh Warfel, Rob Kreutzer, Nicholas Kreutzer, Steve Larson, Joey Kellner, Dick Schottler

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Hubbs and my boy

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Brian Eagar

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Brandon Curtis sleeping in the Hotel Chiris

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Bryan Hamilton preserving DORs

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Nick Scobel

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Clockwise George Cevera, Robb Dobbs, Jamison Hensley, Marisa Ishimatsu, Shaun Vought


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DBD waking up

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Matt King, Ben Morrison, Brad Beres


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Matt King

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Kris Haas, Aaron Mills, Erik McCormick

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Mike Pingleton, Dan Krull, Alejandro Lozano, Erik Zeidler


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Marisa, Erik, Chris Newsom

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Josh Holbrook, Tim Borski, Chris Gillette

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Josh and Ashley

I've got some more good pics of the midwest and northeast bunch, I'll have to round em up.
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Dell Despain and Matt Ingrasci
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Jeff Hardwick and Matt I.
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Trixie and Bob (Herp Dogs)
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The Chad
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Standing: Jeff Hardwick, Ryan Nafts, Inge Hardwick
Flipping the bird: Dell Despain
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My wife realy likes Iguana iguana
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Awesome Post!
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Black rat snake by Reptile Man Chance, on Flickr
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Awesome Post!
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Black rat snake by Reptile Man Chance, on Flickr
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Going back through the years a bit, I've had the opportunity to herp with some of the best people I've ever met.

Dres, Redmer and my first 'sauga, 2003
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a funny one of me from 2003, kankakee county
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the late Ron Humbert, a truly inspiring guy, 2005
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My wife with her first bullsnake, 2005
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Ray, DaveODD and Peter knuteberg shooting a kingsnake, 2009
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Mike Dloogatch, 2005
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Todd (snakewrangler) with his lifer black racer, 2009
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Bryan Susan and Aaron Laforge make a new friend, 2008
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Aaron with two shawnee kings, 2005
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Dloogatch with my first shawnee copperhead, 2005
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Jenny Vollman with an armful of kings and racers, 2006. That trip was by far the most herps I've ever seen in a weekend, it was the perfect storm of herping conditions and herpers. Unfortunately I lost most of my photos - back up everything!!!!
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Linda Malawy, Steve Barton, Ralph Shepstone, Jenny Vollman and Jason Hood, 2008
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Justin M with our first of four shawnee timbers, 2009
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DaveODD and I with a big timber, 2009
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This is an awesome thread and I loved going through my old folders of herping photos, really got my blood boiling for this year's season!

Erik.
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Awesome thread!! Thanks for sharing :beer:
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Osceo National Forest, FL
North American Field Herping Association
Southeast Chapter group trip, Spring 2010

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DiamondbackDave with Watersnake by GA-Kayaker, on Flickr

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Mellisa with Gray Rat Snake by GA-Kayaker, on Flickr

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Rough Green Snake by GA-Kayaker, on Flickr

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Rough Green Snake by GA-Kayaker, on Flickr

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Watersnake by GA-Kayaker, on Flickr
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Found another one; Me carrying two Pseudopus apodus's on my trip to Croatia last spring:

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A mate just emailed a couple of shots from herping trips which I thought would be appropriate in this thread.

This is me photographing a Varanus spenceri a couple of years ago.
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One of the resulting shots
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This shot was taken last year and has a funny story. In fact, I'd forgotten all about it until I saw the photo, which caused me to laugh out loud.
We were on Cape York and about to go spotlighting. I had my headlamp on around the campsite and had stopped walking for a minute when I suddenly felt something crawl onto my foot. It turned out to be a gecko (pretty sure it's an Asian house gecko) that had seen my headlamp and decided that it would be a good place to find flying insects. I watched (or felt, when it was out of sight) in amusement as it made its way up my leg, torso, neck and finally the top of my head, where it proceeded to rush around chasing insects. A minute or so after my mate took these shots it must have got fed up with the flash, for it went back down and wandered off.
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Jason Folt & our herping partners Joy & Cid taking a break during a rattlesnake hunt
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Myself, Todd Pierson, & Robbie Webb extracting a copperhead
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Josh Vandermuelen gets friendly with a Snapper in Ontario
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Alex Clark, Carl Koch, & Myself sporting Sauga gear in southern Illinois
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Dave Mifsud, Jim Harding, & Myself at a Box Turtle site in August of 2010
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Chris & Colin Boguslawski with a BIG Massasauga in September of 2010
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it's time to bring a good thread back.


stu finally gets his fox snakes. he came up by me for the morning. it started off with babies.

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this is my friend jason, whom i recently met. great guy. he's a falconer as well as a field herper. falconry is bad-ass. i can't wait for fall so i can watch him work his goshawk.

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this is me holding my first wisconsin bull (same as above). put a lot of time in to find one. i've seen them before, but this is my first in-hand. what a beauty.

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stu again. you can tell by his smile that he is having a good day. these are 001 and 002 of my study. it felt good to help him get his first foxes. we found eight that morning.

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-ben
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hey, thought it would be cool to revive an old-ish post... I loved looking through these, and would love to see some more recent ones. here's what I got

friends looking at frogs in a pond
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me in belize
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ya, that's me after trying to catch an iguana in the pool (belize)
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me looking for whipsnakes, seconds later I caught my first one :P
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the other shots are me from 8-10 yrs. old, herping with my buds...
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haha
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-Ian
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This thread is awesome.
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