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Woke my son up early yesterday and headed SW to hit a few tin sites just as the sun was coming up. We had a great morning, finding 8 snakes which represented five different species. This was the highlight of the day though...I lifted a 10x10 side of a fallen barn and looked underneath to see a big eastern king. My hands were full holding up the heavy barn, so our only shot of securing the big eastern for photos was my six year old son making the grab. He pulled this monster out on his own. This pic was taken moments afterward. Awesome experience for both of us!

We also found a nice mole king, our second live one and third overall for 2010.

Thanks for looking,
Michael

>>Woke my son up early yesterday and headed SW to hit a few tin sites just as the sun was coming up. We had a great morning, finding 8 snakes which represented five different species. This was the highlight of the day though...I lifted a 10x10 side of a fallen barn and looked underneath to see a big eastern king. My hands were full holding up the heavy barn, so our only shot of securing the big eastern for photos was my six year old son making the grab. He pulled this monster out on his own. This pic was taken moments afterward. Awesome experience for both of us!

Sending your boy a big congratulations on that big eastern.
Bob Bichler
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R.Bichlers Colubrids
http://www.webspawner.com/users/rbichler/index.html

Glad you had a good time with your son. Memories like that last a lifetime!

it's bigger than your kid!! Give him a congrats from us all That's a heck of a find.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

WooHoo

That's awesome man1 Show us some pics of the moles too. I am curious as how they look there.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

are pretty variable. Here are a few old pics from the past couple of years. You guys may have seen these on here before.

I will post the recent ones on here in the next couple of days. We have found three so far this spring, two under tin and a dor. They are much more common in my neck of the woods than corns or eastern kings.

Here ya go...

Very nice indeed!

I REALLY like pic #1 and pic #3 a bunch!

look forward to seeing the other stuff you photographed as well.

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

Those are nice! I may have to get some of those, lol.
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

The second and third were found under the same piece of A/C in May 2006. The first one was from the NC foothills about two weeks ago.

Thanks for looking!

Michael

I have to get some better pics of this one to share. Nicest one I have ever seen. It is a nice pink color. NC Foothills locale.

Michael

Nice looking snake indeed! It almost looks hypo? Do you keep and breed these guys?
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

>>Nice looking snake indeed! It almost looks hypo? Do you keep and breed these guys?

In your opinion Jorge......Is hypo reduced black pattern or reduced black pattern?
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

After finding this pink one, I may have to start back.

Thanks,
Michael

>>I have to get some better pics of this one to share. Nicest one I have ever seen. It is a nice pink color. NC Foothills locale.

Michael....
That has got to be the best looking mole king I have ever seen....Very thayeri looking imho......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

Thanks John. They are much like Thayeri in their variability, maybe more so in the foothills than the sandhills or coast. I have found a green mole with orange blotches (above) and a red mole under the same board before. I have also found grey ones, brown ones, clearly patterned adults, patternless adults, etc.

I will take some better pics of the pink one this weekend.

Thanks,
Michael

>>Thanks John. They are much like Thayeri in their variability, maybe more so in the foothills than the sandhills or coast. I have found a green mole with orange blotches (above) and a red mole under the same board before. I have also found grey ones, brown ones, clearly patterned adults, patternless adults, etc.
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>>I will take some better pics of the pink one this weekend.

Great....I would enjoy seeing some pics of it......
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
www.coastalbendcaptivebreeding.com

My congrats to your "little man" for the capture!

~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

my website -serpentinespecialties.webs.com

I have some nice pics from this spring...corns, moles, scarlet kings, scarlet snake, etc...that I will post as soon as I have time to compress them. Here are a couple easterns from last year for you guys to enjoy while you wait, with a photo of a nice tin site that produces nice foothills eastern kings.

Thanks for all the kind words.

Michael

That's a great shot!!!

Thanks for sharing!

//Todd