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varanid
at Tue Jun 1 22:20:46 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by varanid ]
Not really. Most of the Nerodia I find are in one particular place, actually a city park. Most people never see 'em cause they're so cryptic. You gotta look for 'em but when you do they're all over the place.
During the summer I usually find 3-5 per trip. The walk around the pond is like a half mile. It's also a good place to find all sorts of turtles (I've found mud turtles, snappers, sliders, and boxies in the park). I've also found prairie rattlers in a rarely used field there, thamnophis, bullsnakes, raccoons, coyotes...it's at the edge of a small town bordering farmland so you get lots of stuff. Herons in season will be there too. And bull frogs. Oddly, I've never seen leopard frogs there. I have found spadefoots, and green toads (B. debilis) as well as Woodhouse's.
I used to live about 5 blocks from it when I was going to college so I've spent lots of time in that park in the early morning and evening looking for herps  I only go back 1-2 times a season now though.
They bulldozed a vacant lot near it where I used to find boxies and the odd hognose this year though  That hurt.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa
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RE: found a snake, killed a camera (maybe) - varanid, Tue Jun 1 22:20:46 2010