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Pretty sure this has been discused many many times but for me it never gets old. The spring/summer of 08 has be pretty good for finding local snake speices. this is what lives in my state and what i have found thus far.

1. northern black racer-found
2.northern water snake-found
3.eastern hoggnose snake.
4.smooth green snake.
5.northern ringneck snake-found
6.northern copperhead-found
7.timber rattlesnake.
8.decays brown snake-found
9.black ratsnake-found
10.eastern gatersnake-found
11.ribbonsnake-found
12.eastern milksnake-found
13.eastern worm snake.

would love to post pics if i knew how to get them up hear, but you all can check out some of my finds in the photo gallery user name sandboa413. So? whats been found and what lives in your area?

Just curious as to which state you are in...
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3.2 Corn (Butter-Sunflower '07/Anery Stripe-Ripple '06/Amber-Jack Straw '06/Snow-Casey Jones '06/Amel Motley-Cosmo '03)
0.1 Baird's Ratsnake (Sugaree '04)
1.0 White Oaks Grey Rat (Tennesse Jed '04)
0.1 IJ Carpet Python (Cassidy '04)
1.0 Western Hognose (Samson '05)
1.1 Shepherd mix (Dylan 9yrs, Porter 4yrs)

im in massachusetts to be more spacific the western part of the state.

>>1. northern black racer-found
>>2.northern water snake-found
>>3.eastern hoggnose snake.
>>4.smooth green snake.
>>5.northern ringneck snake-found
>>6.northern copperhead-found
>>7.timber rattlesnake.
>>8.decays brown snake-found
>>9.black ratsnake-found
>>10.eastern gatersnake-found
>>11.ribbonsnake-found
>>12.eastern milksnake-found
>>13.eastern worm snake.
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I am also in MA. There is one snake you missed on the list, Northern Redbelly. I was lucky enough to find one last weekend.

From your list this year I have found 2, 8, 10, 12. In the past I have found 1, 3, 4, 5, and 11.
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Joe

oh yeah i totally forgot about the northen red bellied snake. its becauase its been such a long time sence ive seen one. what part of mass do you live in? and were do you go field herping i would love to talk more and share locations some of them unfortuatly im sworn to secresy about because theres a good size population of indagered species and i myself rarely go to those plases but if yo want to see a tone of milksnakes,racers and ringnecks go to stanley park in westfield mass and go and walk around the nature trail spacifcly the gardens and it a garinty youll see one of the three.

I live in central MA about an hour east of Westfield. I have never herped in the western part of the state, but would like to someday. There are four snakes on the states list that I have not found (timber rattler, copperhead, black rat, and worm snake), all of which are protected or endangered here. I believe all 4 are found in the Connecticut River valley and the western side of the state. Good luck out there.
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Joe

The easiest way to post pics is to set up a free account at an image host such as imageshack.com or photobucket.com; upload the images from your computer, then copy the image code (looks like [ IMG ] nameofpicture [ IMG ], except with no spaces) and paste it in your post.

Also, if you have a photo account on kingsnake you should be able to select an image from the Photos: box at the bottom of the posting page.

ok, so far this year in VT I have

North American Racer - Found
Timber Rattlesnake - Not Found
Ring-necked Snake - Found
Eastern Ratsnake - Found
Milksnake - Found
Northern Watersnake -Found
Smooth Greensnake - Found
DeKay’s Brownsnake - Found
Red-bellied Snake - Found
Eastern Ribbonsnake -Found
Common Gartersnake -Found

So the only one I'm missing is the Timber Rattler and I hope to have that taken care of in the next few weeks.