Here's a Texas coral female found on a hunch. It was warm enough and recent rains allowed for the snakes to come to the surface but under cover. I had only been to this place once and found no snakes but there were toads, frogs, med. geckos, anoles and skinks. So I knew it would produce some time. Last February I flipped two in one day about 1/4 a mile away and across the road.
This girl was fat and appeared to actually be hooding like a cobra when I flipped the piece of tin she was under. On closer inspection she looked swollen just behind her jaw and had a few marks on her head leading me to believe she had escaped a predator very recently. Has anyone ever seen a coral do this? She was very speckled in the red with a ton of black and she looked like she had a great meal in her, interstitial skin showing.
I only had about an hour with the time change so I hit a spot with lots of cover, thank God for delapidated barns!
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Todd Hughes
