i live in mass and in the spring and summer its a pretty good place to go herpin heres a list of what you can find in my area. some of wich i have found or either seen ect the one labled with a atar.
snake:
ribbon snakes*
gatersnakes*
northern water snakes*
norther ringneck snakes*
northern redbellied snakes
copperheads*
timber rattlesnakes*
eastern milksnakes*
dekays brown snake*
black ratsnakes*
black racers*
eastern hognose snakes
smooth green snakes
frogs:
bullfrog*
leopardfrogs*
spring peppers*
pickrel frog*
gray tree frogs*
american toad(bufo americanus)
fowlers toad
green frogs
wood frogs
salamanders/newts
red backed salamanders*
mudpuppys
eastern newts*
spotted salamanders*
marbled salamanders
red spotted salamanders*
blue spotted salamanders*
jeffersons salamanders
hell benders(extremly rare)
3 lined salamanders*
mole salamanders*
much more just cant think of any more
turtles:
painted turtles*
red eared sliders(introduced)*
wood turtles*
common snapping turtles*
eastern box turtle
bog turtles*
spotted turtles*
musk turtles
i saw something that looked like an alligator snapping turtles it had a short thick neck and common snapping turtles have much longer necks. im guessing it was some ones pet and then they greww tiredof it and then let it go.
summer of 07 western mass
