Not since the early 1990's, when I used to get out a few times/year in Calvert County back then. However, my interest was recently renewed when I acquired some CB 2003 snakes (corn and coastal plain milk snakes) for family pets, and I may try looking again sometime this summer. How far north have you looked in Calvert? Ever look in PG County? My experience searching for any/all herps in southern MD is limited to AA, Calvert and PG Co's. Unfortunately I never found a coastal, but had luck with most other species. I am going to try building nice custom tanks this fall, and I would like to hear any suggestions you may have (you mentioned in another post that you will be trying to establish microhabitats for a group of coastals for your breeding interests). I can be reached off-list at jugbay@hotmail.com if you have any suggestions for preparing a practical but natural setting for maintaining the captive coastals. I agree that the biggest issue facing most wildlife in our region these days is the unbelievable pace of "progress", and resulting loss of habitat due to mostly residential development. Many of the areas around us now in southern MD are hardly recognizable from 10-20 years ago, it's really disgusting.



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