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In April of 2002 A good friend and I took a trip to Southeastern GA, here's a big male king as found under tin....

at another spot, we walked around back and found some small stacks of tin under a couple of pieces I found this beautiful freshly shed little yearling sized getula...I yelled out "hey here's a little king" to which he replies "*explative deleted* here's a pair.....breeding!" They weren't actually copulating but they were certainly about to or had just been before the tin was lifted....oh well can't win them all LOL hope you enjoyed the photos

This is interesting to me, because we just got our first snake, a Florida King. Before we got her, it would have NEVER occurred to me to actually LOOK for snakes outside! But now I definitely will. They're just cool and interesting, and when I'm out fishing I see them from time to time. Now I'll start taking pictures and seeking them out, I'm sure.

It's great to see snakes out in the field. Just be sure that if you move anything, be it artificial cover like roofing tin or boards, or natural cover such as rocks and logs PLEASE replace it exactly as it was found. Leaving a rock even slightly askew can break the "seal" which holds in the moisture and makes the habitat viable for use by not only the snakes but a myriad of other small animals vertebrates and invertebrates. And also be careful (depending on your location) for any of your native species of venomous snakes. Don't put your hands anywhere you can't see. Using basic common sense will keep you from getting a "Hi, how are you? have a nice trip to the hospital" greeting from one of our crotalids.

Horridus

Good advice, thanks.

We have only two venomous snakes here in northern Virginia/Maryland/West Virginia (the areas where I fish), the copperhead and the timber rattler. Never seen either, but I think I would be able to identify both.

PLEASE replace it exactly as it was found.

This year has been horrible, everyone I know has found sites all over South GA, North FL, and even SC flipped with no regard for anyone behind them. I only hope I pull up as this is going on and catch them....bad bad bad things in store >

Just about all my spots here in the Tampa Bay area, even a few I didn't think anyone knew about at all, have been flipped with boards left leaning up, or laying on fresh grass, next to the bare spot. These spots don't produce many snakes, so its even more disheartening when all the cover has been moved around. Same thing in the canefields...

Yeah, found one of our spots torn to smithereens last week. Not only that but they placed the ac in such a way as to be visible and could now be considered an "eyesore" to be cleaned up and gone forever. I took about 30-45 min. but it still needed more help to get it back.
If I hit the lotto, I'm gonna buy up as many "junkyards" as I can
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

When you do, I wanna buy some car hoods from ya!
Todd Hughes

thank you for posting those photos, I quite enjoyed them.
daveb
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Those are great photos of beautiful kingsnakes. I don't think any other ssp can compare to a nice southern getula getula.

However, when I opened this post, I expected to see some old black and whites from the 1960s! Pics from 2002 count as old? Geez, I'm a fossil then I guess.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

...I guess we're both dinosaurs.
Anyway, in the spirit, here's a southern getula in b&w for ya.

:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

Chris wanted something from the 60's, not just B&W. I'd love to see some older field herping pics too.

I gotta admit though about the oldest herp pics I have were taken in the mid 80's.
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Vichris
"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"- Marcus Aurelius

Vichris Variables

How 'bout a real old one?
12' bushmaster...

haha.
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

do you think that guy is still alive? do you think he survived that bushmaster?!?!?

daveb

...that is "Fearless Ronald Wagner" He worked with Bill Haast I believe many many moons ago. He has since passed.
I actually mistyped the length of the bushmaster, sorry. I believe it was 10'2" or something like that. Not 12'.
Either way, one helluva snake!
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

They are actually pretty easy to work during the day as a whole
especially wild ones. I wouldn't recommend the methods you can use with wild ones with these CB ones they are different ballgame

I've heard that but obviously I have no hands-on experience with them. Still, a 10' snake is impressive to me.
Dick told me of a pretty big one they saw last year? in Peru.
Are you breeding them?
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

www.crimsonking.funtigo.com

No, I was going to work with a pair of those blackhead x stenophrys crosses that Dean Ripa produced but couldn't provide them an adaquate enclosure that was safe for me...so I sold them. I've had muta, stenophrys, and melanocephala hybrids come through when I was doing the snake thing full time. All were wonderful animals. I've heard some amazing stories from Terry V. about how they have acted in the wild. I won't repeat all of it except the disclaimer "no tools were used in the collection of this bushmater" LOL I've enjoyed working with all the ones I had over the years but they really are one of those animals that deserves a huge set-up.

Horridus

I guess I should have labeled them as photos from 2002 LOL
It's just compared to the photos we take today they look ancient