"I do try to time my herping in the early morning or right before dusk, and I have tried other times throughout the day too."

A great resource for determining the sunrise and sunset times for a particular day/location is www.sunrisesunset.com. You can create a custom calendar for your location and even get twilight times for the period of usable light just before sunrise and after sunset.


"I heard that after dusk can be successful during warmer nights, but haven't tried that yet but will once the weather permits?---Anybody concur/refute?"

My (then 4-year-old) son and I had an experience two years ago that we will never forget. It was a warm, summer night, and we were looking for green tree frogs and the reflective eyes of spiders. I already had the flashlight on as we walked to the "tall grass" as my son calls it (back part of our property is kept "natural" for wildlife including bobwhite quail). We were in our side yard, when out of the corner of my eye, I noticed an adult corn snake not 5 feet from our house.

The experience, and my son's peaked interest, inspired us to attend the 2007 Georgia Reptile Expo that fall. In December, my son sat on Santa's lap at Callaway Gardens and asked a very shocked Santa for the "pink snake" that he saw at the snake show. The albino prairie kingsnake that Santa brought is now 28 inches long.

BTW, I just learned the dates for the 2009 Georgia Reptile Expo from the event director: October 3 & 4, 2009. This annual event is put on by the Georgia Herpetological Society.

~GAkayaker

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