Dry, VERY dry with the controlled and non-controlled burn off season under way with temps well into the lower 90ties : the observations this day was about 1/3 of the previous week but 75% of snakes larger than ringnecks seen were females that had laid eggs already and very thin. Lack of ringnecks in which by my docu of past years strange for the season but can be explained by an early Kansas warm up and herps having been up longer than usual. Of the big 2 kingsnakes and the 1 common rat snake we found under a dozen which includes the speckled king, milk snake and emoryi. Very few other snakes were observed. Finally found the common numbers of collared lizards and great plains skinks of totals of over 20 and 20 respectfully. This early lack of observation could change from week to week as we have a very cool to down right cold and rainy front moving in that is suppose to stay around for several days. In my opinion another spring like window of opportunity for our Flint Hills herps. Our sole hunting agenda was with lifting rocks. We found very few areas that had been hit by fellow herpers and whomever did, seems to have been very conscience about replacing rocks back as they found them. Thanks to whomever this was ! The only really odd ball herp and supposedly a abundant herp of the area ( not by my years though ) was a large massasagua on pavement and alive non-hit on the way out to the Flint Hills from the south. Will post pics of the mass. and very large milks later.
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Flint Hills Kansas 4/23/06 event
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Hey Mike...
It has been an odd year. We had some rain up here in Hays Sunday night. Went out and found 6 gentilis in only a few road cuts, as well as a getula. Then today my friend Jim left Hays and found another five gentilis, a sauga and a coachwhip under the same rock in Lincoln County as well as several kings and enoryi. We also found a few viridis on the road Sunday night. Also found a lot on the KHS trip...Sonora, Leptotyphlops, Hypsigliena, even the ultra rare red hills milk snake. This strange weather has the viridis doing some strange things too, makes me wonder if my beloved Ellis County Heterodon (both sp) will be moving early this year...
Ive never seen a collared lizard yet.So far this year Ive only seen ringnecks and prairie skinks(seem to be alot this year).Which is a good thing really my son has been trying to get a prairie skink for two years now and finally caught two..Of course I havent had much time this year to look around for herps..
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