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Headed south last night. Conditions were ok temp-wise (mid-70s all night), but a strong 20-30 mph wind didn't help matters. Nevertheless, saw 14 live snakes between 8 and 1 am...The annulata was another "lucky friday the 13th" herp. It whipped across the pavement at 12:35. I decided to keep him to increase the genetic diversity of my breeding colony.

Brad Chambers

Who says Friday the 13th is unlucky!? Great pics! What type of snake is that in the last pic?

reako45

It's a DOR southwestern ratsnake, Elaphe guttata mealhorum....

Brad Chambers

Brad, where were you? I just got back from Brewster county and the cold front blew us out with 2 flatheaded snakes, 1 Sceloprus merriami and a Texas horny toad. Flipped all day on the way home and drove from San Antonio down 16 to 624 to Corpus with only a red eared slider crossing around Poteet at 6:30 p.m. NIIIce annulatta!
Todd Hughes

Tod-

I found a good looking farm road east of Cotulla and just ran it all night (till 1 am anyway). As I said it was very windy and not a lot was moving, but I knew wind probably wouldn't stop annulata out "lookin for love".....In my favor was that the moon wouldn't rise until 4 am.

I'm going out Thursday for some daytime herping. I'll post pics of anything I find.

Brad Chambers

Nice finds! I really like the triciolor. Too bad about the mealhorum though...
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Diego

Diego & Tiffany's Zoo:
SNAKES
1.2.0 Corn Snakes (Different morphs)
1.1.0 Hypo Everglades Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Trans-Pecos Rat Snakes
1.1.0 Salt and Pepper Bull Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Pacific Gopher Snake
2.1.0 Sonoran Gopher Snakes
0.1.0 Amel Sonoran Gopher Snake
1.1.0 Mexican Black Kingsnakes
1.0.0 Gray Banded Kingsnake
1.0.0 Hypermelanistic California Kingsnake
0.1.0 Albino High White California Kingsnake
0.1.0 California Kingsnake
1.1.0 Thayeri Kingsnake
4.1.0 Rosy Boas (Harquahala, Mexican, Temecula, & Mid Baja)
0.1.0 Kenyan Sand Boas
0.1.0 Indonesian Dwarf Pacific Boa
1.1.0 Cape York Spotted Pythons
1.1.0 Western Hognoses
1.1.0 Red Sided Garter Snakes

LIZARDS
1.0.0 Frilled Dragon
2.0.0 Bearded Dragons
0.1.0 Eastern Collared Lizard
1.0.0 African Fat-Tail Gecko
0.1.0 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink
1.4.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.1 Yellow Niger Uromastyx
1.1.0 Chuckwalla
0.1.0 Banded Gecko
0.0.1 Gold Dust Day Gecko

FROGS
1.0.1 Green Tree Frogs
1.0.0 Bubbling Kassina
0.0.1 White's Tree Frog
0.0.2 Gold Frogs

I hunted a little north of where you were and found half a dozen big atrox blowing around in the wind. I only hunted 2 hours however as I had to be back in SA by 11:00.
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Chris Harrison
San Antonio, Texas

That's interesting, Chris-all the atrox we saw that night were small! I really would have liked to stay a couple of hours more, since it seems we saw more activity (other than early marcianus) the later it got....

Brad Chambers

Check out HB2414 on the grayband forum, unless we beat this, you won't get to check out road cruising in Texas...........people, take the time to check it out, Texans, stand up and send some emails and call your local reps!
Todd Hughes