A couple of Sundays ago (23 April) I was visiting my brother in LA and we went hiking in the Santa Monica Mts. It was pretty dismal going – paths were eroded from too many horses, lots of people, no sign of even a lizard – it was pretty dead of creatures for someone from India. After some persuasion we veered off into one of the side trails and pretty soon I was counting Scoloperus lizards. When I hit 6 or 7, my brother spotted a snake (about 3 pm) and I didn't know what it was - it was very colorful and could have been a king snake or a coral snake (I didn't know then that there were no corals in CA). 10 min later while I was staring at the ground memorizing the coloration, I realized I was wearing the key to the snake's id! I was wearing a kingsnake.com T-shirt (that I received from some kingsnake.com folk at Daytona last year) and that was the snake we had seen - a Mountain kingsnake. I thought it was pretty cool that I should id a snake based on a T-shirt I was wearing at that moment. (Too bad I didn’t pick up the snake for a picture!!) But I realized later from talking to herper friends that it was cool just to see a California kingsnake!
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Is that too bizarre to be true?
JanakiLenin
May 06, 2006 10:11 PM
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Aaron
May 08, 2006 01:32 AM
Congrats, Lampropeltis zonata is not an easy find in the Santa Monicas.
morgan_so_cal
May 08, 2006 11:15 AM
yeah... no doubt! to quote napoleon D.
"Luckeeeeee"
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