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BlueKing
at Wed Oct 8 21:49:03 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BlueKing ]
to find snakes. I've lived there for about three years (and still own a house there), and even with my 32 years of herping/field collecting experience my finds have been limited. I did find a few however: At Belton lake - patchnose snakes and some pretty ribbon snakes with nice wide red stripes on their backs. In and around Killeen I found primarily several Great plains ratsnakes. I found one, and only one, 3 foot speckled/desert intergrade Kingsnake. On Ft. Hood I've found only three rattlesnakes (western diamondbacks), the biggest was only about 3.5 foot.
But if you can afford a 4 hour trip straight south (on I 35), about 40 miles south of San Antonio you WILL find a bunch of snakes, especially in the spring and fall and even some warm winter days (don't go in the summer, snakes estivate there and in your area as well due to excessive heat and lack of rain for up to 2.5 months sometimes). So you will find only a few heat loving snakes out like patch noses and coachwhips and centex whipsnakes. And now, YOU, know the REST of the story!
GOOD LUCK!
ZEE
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RE: I gotta be straight with ya' . You live in one of the worst areas - BlueKing, Wed Oct 8 21:49:03 2003