JUST awesome, now either you posted that before or I saw it in a magazine,I know it's you, but I can not remember where I saw that picture, it is imprinted in my mind because I have ALWAYS wanted to catch one as long as I can remember. Must have been a real "rush" for sure, the timbers in Jersey are kinda puny compared to the eastern diamondbacks. Also like you noticed by you, the snakes are much less abundant than they used to be, in jersey this applies to virtually all species. But yet the introduced "red eared" sliders are over abundant, go figure, people got them for 25 cents years ago and liberated them and now they breed like wildfire here. On a different note I have found a "colony" of breeding Mediterranean House Geckos, Hemidactylus turcicus living in an apartment complex in Edison New Jersey, my brother was the super there for years and kept catching them in all sizes for me. I went with him in the winter time and they live in all the boiler rooms, during the summer they can be found all over the building near "night lights" catching insects, but once winter comes they instinctively come indoors. They are very well established, I would imagine someone must have ordered them to combat cockroaches, they can be purchased very cheaply by the dozens I hear. Ha, there I go again talking in tangents LOL.



If anyone's interested in this species of gecko, I have included a link with some specie INFO, apparently NJ is not the only place they have established mini colonies...
Mediterranean Gecko


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Frank Roberts

Roberts' Realm Of Reptile Research

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