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With all their saddles & their black caps pushing down onto their nose. Give me a Pale w/ less saddles and a head cap that stays on their head, not their nose.

Here are a few c/b adult L.t. taylori, enjoy.

Two big females. Two feet long, 145 and 147 grams.

Nice looking yellow male. To breed w/ second female. Kind of looks like a multistrata, but it's a taylori.

Now this little scrapper male is proven @ 45 grams.

And this male is even smaller but still proven @ 35 grams. grrr who's your daddy?

Here is a belly shot of an neonate taylori heavily marked.

Now check out this neonate, same clutch.

Not much black to that belly, but plenty of red & white.

Here is a high bar of what a NA milk should look like. If you ask me. Pale milk-snakes!

And celaenops! Don't even get me started bout how bad they try to look like multistrata.Phhhaa as if they could.

-Dell

love that pale.You been flippin' logs already Dell ?
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"Wake me when its April"

Doug L

Hey Doug,
Glad you like the Pale. I haven't started herping yet, still snow on the ground here in the Big Sky state.
And I hope I don't have to roll to many logs this year, I'm trying to stay in rock country this year.

-Dell

Doug,
He's a w/c Stillwater co. subadult/adult. He is as big as the proven taylori I just posted. About 18" and 40 grams. I have a female picked out for him already, he just has to get it done now.

Here he is again.

One of the females he'll be spending quality time with.

I like the way they retain the orange and in the case of the male, the red with out fading to brown orange as many adults do.
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"Wake me when its April"

Doug L

Well done post!

-Rusty

Thanks Rusty,
I've had the taylori brewing for a little while now, and my two daughters had two of their friends over for a sleep over, so I hid in the computer room and worked on that post. It was either that or watch 5 and 9 year olds doing a fashion show and telling me about their shoes.
Girls are funny critters.

-Dell

about the little ones...none of my own yet!

Hope you had a nice cold adult beverage with you as well!

Saw a T-Shirt: Daddy Drinks Because You Cry!!!

Loved it...

-Rusty

WOW.. Great pix and great snakes!! Love the belly shot effect and like that red stone back drop as well..

Nice work!

~ Mike Russo

Thanks Mike,
The photos still need a little more work, as I'm a hack, but little by little I'm getting better.
I liked the rock back drop too, and will do a few more of these in the future.
What I really need is for the snow to melt so I can try some outdoor shots.

-Dell

South Dakota multistrata

Wow this snake is fantastic.How big is this one? Love that orange red
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"Wake me when its April"

Doug L

Doug,
This South Dakota animal is an 07, but huge. 20" and 45 grams.
All the other 07 Pale neonates that I have are half that size.
Cole G. produced the pair I have and his breeders are the giants of the multistrata world.

-Dell

I like using rocks as back drops as well..

~ Mike Russo

Whew, that's a crazy patterened alterna. Locality?
Mike you always have great photos of your animals. From what I've seen over the years your collection would be a joy to see in person.

-Dell

very nice Dell. You don't see too many posts of taylori around here. Very refreshing to see some gorgeous examples. I can't believe those little guys stepped up to the plate and bred. that's cool.

Dave
DNS Reptiles

Dave your right, we need to see more taylori posted, but I bet we don't. I hope a few people prove me wrong too.
Those little males are something else. I'll try and get a photo of the males and females together, the females are so much bigger it's laughable.

-Dell

When the hell is Utah F&G going to come to it's
scences? Property of the State? Isn't the State, property of the tax payers? Doh! I just fell off my soap box! Oh well.
Nice snakes there Dell.
-Phil
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Work is the curse of
the drinking class!

Hi Phil,
Some things have loosened up on taylori in CO and UT, but you still have to want it pretty bad to make it work.

Hope your okay from your soap box fall. We must be using the same soap box, because I fall off mine all the time too.

-Dell

Great photos Dell, nice use of rocks and the white background! Wish I had that kind of patience.
Not many taylori around anymore and you've got some dandy animals there - the pales are just excellent!
Jeff
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If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see it with representation.

Thanks Jeff,
I knew you'd respond at some point to this post, your to much of a milkhead not to, and I know how much you like taylori.

It's a funny thing w/ photos and snakes, but I'm only bothered by lack of patience every tenth snake or so.
Well that's not true, every adult honduran I've ever tried to shoot, at some point I wanted to ring it's neck. Unless it's already sitting in it's tub undisturbed.

-Dell

Okay I can't put a honduran in this thread w/ out a NA milk to back it up and not let the hondurans take over the topic. "

The Gorilla. Syspila thharilla! aka Black widow.

Why did she eat her mate ? Remind her shes not suppose to do that till after they do the samba
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"Wake me when its April"

Doug L

Wowzer Dell. You have some nice pictures there. Hopefully I can get a little better using my camera this summer when I am the one without a job to keep me busy. No promises though.

No way! I don't think I've ever seen that locale posted before, Ryan! Nice animals! Are those from the line that goes "way back"?

-Cole

A very simple "Damn" will suffice! Great snakes and very nice shots Dell!

Ryan, nice to see some other taylori posted. I'm lucky to have the winters off, but I'm to busy w/ the kids to claim time off helped me w/ my photos. I'm still a hack and know it.

Chris, Thanks for the kind words. It's good to see you posting again, I thought we'd lost you there for min.
-Dell

Nice post, man! I was wondering when you'd get those photos up for everyone to see! I've got a "few" more that need their pictures taken, too... maybe Saturday? Hopefully I'll back in town and out of this damn snow we're having up at elevation.

-Cole