I thought Maine was the only state in the continental U.S. with no lizards... doesn't MA have five-lined skinks? We've got even fewer species of snake... Eastern milk, garter, ribbon, water, black racer, red-bellied, ringneck, brown... maybe half a dozen species of turtle, half of which are ultra-rare/protected/limited range... like five and a half species of salamander (some of them are hybrids, how scandalous!)







One kind of toad and a handful of species of frogs... did I miss anything? And hey, if you're disappointed about what you can find in the wild, just wait until you see the short list of unrestricted species you can keep in captivity without a permit (although, that list got significantly longer/saner this year). And to top it off, it's so cold that even the hardiest of captive-bred milksnakes have to huddle together for warmth until midsummer:







See, by comparison, doesn't seem so bad down in the Old Commonwealth, now does it?



Nate

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