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RichardFHoyer
at Sat Jan 23 00:42:59 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RichardFHoyer ]
Todd;
Don't own a camera with my last one having been stolen. Although my wife can take photos on her camera and then transmit them to me on my computer, I haven't the foggiest notion of how to send them to the forum.
Habitat is mostly grassland type habitat at the edge of brush and often in association with oak and / or Douglas fir stands.
As a general rule, when temperatures reach the mid 50's locally for about 3 or more days with some sunshine, I can count on finding the species under the artificial cover objects I deploy for finding the species. Generally, such conditions usually occur at the earliest in February. I have found at least one adult male Rubber Boa every February since 1971. But finding the species during the month of January is unusual and rare for the month of December.
That isn't so much the case further south along some of the coastal areas of Calif. such as the Santa Cruz Mts. south of San Francisco where temperature conditions are generally warmer than here in Oregon and sunshine occurs more frequent as well.
And of course, southern California, southern Florida, and southern Texas are places where finding reptiles during the winter is the rule and not the exception. Keep in mind that where I live in Corvallis, our latitude is equivalent to the southern 1/3rd of Minnesota and Maine.
Richard F. Hoyer
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RE: Winter herping - RichardFHoyer, Sat Jan 23 00:42:59 2010