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Posted by the_Ox (My Page) on Tue, Oct 4, 05 at 21:37
| I herped the east side of the Shawnee all day on Saturday. Picking through abandoned houses/barns/foundations. Excellent habitat, but the herping completely sucked so I got the hell away from there. I made it to snake road saturday afternoon. I made three runs, one saturday afternoon, one saturday dusk, and one very early sunday morning. I saw huge numbers of cottonmouths, especially sunday morning. I stopped counting, and photoing after a while. Well over thirty snakes. At one point I could see four snakes at once lined up at the base of the bluffs, going south - right by the first den area. I had fun, got some good pics I will post soon. I also found many cottons in roadside ditches near heron pond - The only thing that sucked is I only saw three species!! (two black rats, one intergrade getula, and cottonmouths). I was alone, and I think I could have hit the 100 snake mark if I had went right to the west side of the Shawnee on Friday.
Later
Matt |
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RE: Snake road
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| Matt, I ran into a guy on Sunday morning who had seen 5 cottonmouths on the road and had seen many many cottonmouths on the bluffs that morning and who had lifted tin the day before and seen very little. Either someone else had a very similar weekend to yours or it was you. Out of curiousity was it you? Sounds like you had a great trip even with the lack of species diversity! The cottonmouths were definitely out Sunday morning. I didn't get to herp the bluffs, but even on the road I saw 9 in one there and back pass. |
RE: Snake road
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| I was wearing an old beat up blue and white tie dye. Walking alone carrying camera and hook - oops, they used to allow those! I didn't realize I was breaking the law until I was finished! I felt really horrible about that. i actually saw slightly more - longtail sals, slimy sals, skinks, fence lizards, garters, browns, midland water, and a couple more. I was very pleased to find the king, it was found just north of the border of Union and Pulaski counties near the railroad tracks. I will get pics up soon. Later Matt |
RE: Snake road
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| Seems like the King Snakes down there are almost always found near the railroad tracks. Makes me wonder if they aren't cheating and traveling by rail :-). |
RE: Snake road
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| Haha, Keith. You might be onto something there. The only king snake I've seen there was crossing the road there at the RR tracks on Muddy Levee Rd. |
RE: Snake road
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| Excellent snakes!!! I found a timber similar to that one squashed on the highway in Gallatin county on Saturday morning. That was so sad. I really wanted to turn up a red milk like yours - but no luck. Damn, I wish I wouldn't have wasted so much time on Saturday, I am so jealous of those of you who found horridus. Matt |
that reply was supposed to be on crypto's post!?!
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