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Here's the one we saw Tom. The pic sucks but the better ones exceed the 250k limit for K-snake.

not as nice as the black one, but still beautiful none the less. If you can resize the other pictures, would love to see them. Have never had the pleasure of seeing timbers in the wild, bet that would be awesome.
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Kevin

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oh wait, you don't have any.
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Kevin

Those are both very nice, Matt! Where in NY did you find them? I recall from my youth that the Hancock, NY area used to be rife with Timbers, but that most of them were black phase.
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MichaelB

Hi Michael,

I won't say other than the Catskills. At the risk of having collectors go looking for them. I know most of the folks on here wouldn't think of it(but you never know). I've seen this same yellow snake for over 6 years, and there's also a smaller yellow one that hangs in the area which is actually marked by the DEC. I've seen several other smaller ones scattered here and there but the mountain is big so it's a lot of territory they can cover.

Also just had a fellow show me a dead copperhead on the road about 3 miles from my residence. Wish i'd have found it before it got run over.

I gotta send you those pics, they came out really well. Too bad about the copperhead, but at least you know they are around. We should go road-cruisin some night.
Thanks for posting them.
-tom

That's understandable. At one time, the distribution of Timbers in that whole general area was almost bizarre. Some locales were practically infested, and yet in other nearby areas, only on the order of 10 miles or so away, they were virtually absent. That was many years ago, though. I still don't know if it was just a natural fluke, or whether human extirpation had something to do with it.
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MichaelB