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I'm looking forward to mating this male with a female I have from the same hillside.I love how this guy retained his orange and has a sort of micro newsprinting giving him a grey background. What do you guys think of Kansas flint hill milks compared to milks from east and west of that range? Does Nebraska have a intergrade range and how do they differ from ones further east and west of that range ?

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Doug L

Doug, we need Greatfuldead in here to answer some of your questions.
But in any given locality there can be quite a bit of diversity in saddle colors, newsprinting, head pattern ect... With that said the Flint hills do seem to produce very nice looking gentilis, and yours meet that definition.

These Kansas gentilis were found in the same locality twenty yards apart. Quite a contrast, and both very nice looking adults.

These next Montana multistrata came from under the same board a few days apart from each other, but w/ in inches of being in the same spot under the same board.
Female, 2007 Bighorn co.

Here is her insitu shot.

And this is the male found a few days later.

And yet another male from the same board.

And this is another male from 2005 that was found a short walk from the above trio.

He is a heavily newsprinted older Pale.

I do believe that some localities produce better looking snakes then other localities, but that each locality has it's own "screamers" in every population. It's our job to find that screamer from it's given locality. So get busy hunting this spring.
We should meet up this spring to lift some rock.

-Dell

Thomas co. NE, L.t. multistrata

Dell, could you give me the longitute and latitude of that board please!! Ha Ha. Very productive area and all nice snakes.

Here is the female i'll mate with the above Fint Hills male.

She is the bigest Kansas milk i have seen and she eats like a cornsnake.

She had a clutch for me in 2005.

Notice the head pattern on that one on the left.I still have two of this '05 clutch but the cool head pattern one never ate and died.
Yes we should meet up in May and flip a few rocks.I just had surgery on my elbow so I hope ill be ready.If not do you think Cole might do my flippin while I grab the snakes ?

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"You look like a guy caught smugling reptiles in his pants" John McCain to David Letterman
Doug L