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Found this Timber across the trail while Mtn biking in Brown County Indiana,just east of the State Park, on the Nebo Ridge trail. Its beautiful,and my bad camera doesnt do it justice! i swear there was even more yellow on it then the pic shows, i was really blown away. this was also my first timber find ever,being from northern illinois and all. It never rattled or anything,just slowly crawled along. it was awesome.

Very nice!

That guy looks like a monster!

//Todd

Nice Timber!
I almost went there last week when on vacation. But decided to go for Kings in Madison County. I'm still kicking myself.
Nate

Hell Yea! That thing is awesome! I've never seen one of those in the wild, but hope to in the future.

Dan

very nice. here's a horridus from Brown Co In. some 20 miles west of the park. crossing road september 2006.

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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger sallie
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
2 G rosea
1 Haplo minax

i find more of these than anything...

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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger sallie
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
2 G rosea
1 Haplo minax

Same for me, here in North Central Texas. Nice Osage copper there..

Matthew

just a northern copper, from same spot as the timber. thanx though. i am heading to kingsville tx soon and hope to see an atrox or indigo, or coach whip or ... well anything that doesnt occur in the hoosier state
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2 tham radix
1 Chicago Tham s. semifasciatus
2 elaphe vulpina
1 gray tiger sallie
4 Aphonopelma hentzi
2 G rosea
1 Haplo minax

Very nice find! Brings back childhood memories.

The second most Yellow Timber I ever found was in Brown County State Park. It was a brighter and more "classic" sulfur-phase than any snake I have seen from the northeastern mountains.

The number-one most beautiful Timber I ever saw was from just across the border into Illinois. It was a 4 1/2' male. Lemon-yellow with almost no dark suffusion in the groundcolor, very little in the way of a reddish vertebral stripe, and no postorbital stripe at all.

People often don't know that sulfur-phase timbers occur in the central and western parts of its range. Some of the sulfurs from extreme northwestern Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa are extremely beautiful.

Cheers,

Terry Vandeventer

thats very interesting to me, what part of illinois exactly have you found timbers? i actually live in illinois and have never found any, id love to do some hunting closer to my home.
im guessing father south from my location around ottawa or peoria regions?

Very nice! That's a gorgeous snake.
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