You think you know stuff, but you actually don't.

Where do you live. It sounds close to where I once lived. I lived in Seymour, hope i spelled that right, its halfway between knox and Serverville, hmmmm hope i spelled that right to. Then on to the gatlinburg.

A couple of things, lifting rocks ruins the rocks for the snakes. So giving you advice on how to find snakes is not all that likely, because you will most likely destroy the areas you go to. Yes, when I was your age, I did what your doing.

The advice I can give is. listen to your friends, the farms and fields have a zillion times more snakes and its not natural, so there is only so much harm disturbing manmade areas.

Let me explain, if a giant alien came to your house and lifted the roof off, then picked you up and played with you, and poking around your bum(trying to sex you) then puts you back in your house, then put the roof back, sort of. WHAT WOULD YOU DO. Yes a simple analogy. What would you do?

You would try to fight, naw, you would crap your pants, then when the alien left, you would catch a train to detroit or somewhere far away. Sir, that is call, fight or flight. That is exactly what snakes do. What that means is, you cannot disturb where you find them, or they will not go back there.

So what are you to do. How about looking. Just look. what that means is, instead of flipping rocks and all manner of stuff, try picking areas, and scanning every stinking inch of it. And when you see a snake, DO NOT SCARE IT OR TOUCH IT. If you do that, you can go back and find it again, then again, then again. If you touch it. You may find it again, but that would be very lucky.

Learn what temps snakes like. Many of you keep your snakes in the mid eighties. Funny thing, most wild snakes, particularly anything not around water, are rare at air temps over 75F. In fact, a nice cold day in the high fifties and low sixites, is PERFECT for seeing snakes out in the day. Of course you need hot days if you want to find snakes at night.

Have patience, hmmmmmm I forgot, I am talking to a 20 year old. Ok, have as much as you can. That other poster hit the nail on the head, snakes are all over the friggin place and common in towns and cities. You do not need pristine. That is where they are the most restricted and fit the best, which means, your less likely to find them.

Please consider the snakes, the problem is not you, its a million people like you. You see, you most likely do little harm, the trouble is, there are a million doing what your doing. And as you know, snake populations are more and more restricted by humans.

Take a camera touch them with only the camera and show us some pics, good luck.

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