I have found what seems to be a perverbial herp gold mine. I work at my local golf cource and never even thought about looking for herps out there untill today. The course is next to some old runways from an old navy base. It is also owned by the county. These two factors have allowed quite a bit of "trash" to pile up aver the years. Today I found a mexican racer (Coluber constrictor oaxaca) it was a litle to quick to get any pics.
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A perverbial gold mine
mike17l
Feb 27, 2007 03:48 PM
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antelope
Feb 27, 2007 09:48 PM
Some of my fondest memories and first catches were at my local golf course, Oso Municipal g.c. in Corpus! D-back water snakes, T. m.marcianus, ribbons, gulf salt marsh, atrox, even box turtles and Texas gopher tortoises were common, sadly it is not so today.
Todd Hughes
jodscovry
Mar 02, 2007 08:06 AM
what?... you call that a gold mine...I have a spot in north port fla. where there are no less than one million dead rotted pinetree stumps and one of every ten or twenty trees produce a young red or a scarletking. I have been slow at work (cabinet installer) and hunted for four days last week and found 37 feet of baby reds and four sixteen scarletkings and one twenty inch scarletking. yesterday I went down to clewiston south of the lake and found three huge sixfoot yellows out laced in brush three feet off the ground and one four foot fl king under a 2x6. I'll post a pic of the habitats and the bags soon. JB
mike17l
Mar 02, 2007 09:08 PM
Found a plains narrow mouth toad, many med geckos, 2 schotts whip snakes, and a patchnose snake.
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antelope
Mar 03, 2007 07:40 AM
Mike, post the PICS!!! Many of these people have not seen any of our "boring" herps, lol! I can never get a good shot of the narrowmouths.
Todd Hughes
mike17l
Mar 03, 2007 05:26 PM
i forgot the camera, but I will take it next time and get plenty
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Royreptile
Mar 03, 2007 07:14 PM
Right on! I would love to see some Schott's whipsnakes!
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Roy Blodgett
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