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by surucucu on May 17, 2003
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I realize this is no topic, I just wanted to share. I caught my first timber of the year yesterday. she was pale pale green yellow with extremely light tan cross bands. stunning. I had her for an hour, taking pictures and basicaly teaching venomous herps of West Virginia 101 to a passing family. she never struck once. I found her coiled up on some leaves beside a fallen tree. it was perfect. good luck and use your head. chris
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by Langaha on May 17, 2003
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Congratulations Chris, I bet that was exciting. Here in Missouri, I haven't been fortunate enough to find a Timber yet, but I'm sure the day will come. I have had some luck recently too. Thursday I stumbled across two large Blue Racers breeding. I chased the female down a hole, and caught up with the male in a brush pile. Man was he big! And he liked to bite! I enjoy talking about field herping stories. Good herping--Anthony
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by surucucu on May 17, 2003
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I love field stories, so here's another one. My first copper this year. I was chasing after a skink which ran under a big rock. I stepped up on two ajoining rocks. I looked down between my feet and there was a big copper coiled up. hadn't even shed yet. Fiesty.
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by Langaha on May 18, 2003
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I have only found one Copperhead thus far this year, down in the Mark Twain National Forest. That's a lower number than usual, but I have more than made up for it in cool colubrids!
I'm still working on getting a camera. I can't believe I have went this long without one. Really, I think they are a must have. So no, I wasn't able to get pics of that big male racer. However, yesterday I took pics of big fat gravid female Midland Brown Snake, with someone elses camera. I traveled 50 miles to checkout an area that is said to have dolomite bluffs in which reptiles hide. However, I never found those due to a major lack of public access trails(probably due to recent storms). Along with the Brown Snake, I caught a big ground skink. I just have to go back and find those bluffs though! Anthony-MO
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by Chance on May 18, 2003
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I've had pretty good luck so far this year, surprisingly. I say that because usually by now, I haven't caught much. I'll give a listing breakdown of what I've caught so far. NONVENS - 3 adult speckled kings and 1 very small juvie, 1 apparently gravid prairie king, 2 eastern hognoses (female apparently gravid), 2 adult black rats and 1 juvenile, 3 ringneck snakes, 1 black racer, and countless Nerodia (I have a mating congregation area near to where I live). VENS - 3 adult osage copperheads and 2 juvies that I've yet to ascertain whether they are osage or southerns. I've seen many DOR coppers, various colubrids, a very large western pigmy, and even one timber that absolutely broke my heart (it had been rednecked, missing its head and rattle). I live in West Central Arkansas and timbers are a pretty rare find around here, so you can imagine my upset to actually find one, dead, maybe a whole 10 miles from my house. Ah well, I've made it my biggest goal this year to find my first timber (and wild rattler, period), and I intend to keep it.
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Anonymous post on May 24, 2003
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I've had good luck this year also. I've been out three days. The first turned up eight timber rattlesnakes(one of which had absolutely no rattle), one N. copperhead and a ~5'black rat. Day two turned up shorthead and eastern garters, and an E. massasauga. Day three turned up a black racer. Took slides of all. Good luchk with the rest of your field seasons.
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by Crotalus64 on May 26, 2003
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I have been back in CA visiting my parents for the last week, and found 6 Northern Pacific's in about 3 hrs. There are some pics up in the field photos section. Five of them were right next to a golf course parking lot. Good Luck.
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