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Is anyone else here going through high anxiety waithing for Spring to get here? On warm days here (few and far between) It gets my motor in high gear just seeing a Sceloprus. Is that bad or what?
Scott
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How many nuns could a nunchuck chuck if a nunchuck could chuck a nun?
I'm cooling my snakes for the first time (and will be attempting to breed them for the first time) so I'm pretty anxious. Doesn't help that it's being a really warm winter here in CA.
Good luck to you this year for breeding your snakes. That warm winter makes me wish I was back in S.Cal.
Scott
I was up in Big Bear at 7000 ft a week ago and saw a lizard scamper into a manzanita bush near our cabin. This was on the side that receives more sun. The north side was covered in snow. Not bad for Dec 30 and 7000ft of altitude. It was quite warm in the sun around noon. I was in a t shirt. Last year at that time it was rather cold there and there was a blanket of fresh snow.
Nice! Gives you hope for the up coming Spring. Same here in SW NM. Had four inches of snow a few weeks ago, about five days later when it statrted to warm up, lizards were running around on the South side of the house. Nice sight to see in the Winter.
>>I was up in Big Bear at 7000 ft a week ago and saw a lizard scamper into a manzanita bush near our cabin. This was on the side that receives more sun. The north side was covered in snow. Not bad for Dec 30 and 7000ft of altitude. It was quite warm in the sun around noon. I was in a t shirt. Last year at that time it was rather cold there and there was a blanket of fresh snow.
Time moves so fast I can feel the wind on my face; so, no, I am not in any anxiety for spring to arrive. I am getting a tad concerned about the lack of precipitation this winter, though.
A little drought history.
www.tahoedailytribune.com/article/20080313/NEWS/338028790
I live in a Ponderosa forest, so when things get dry I get anxiety about fire. last year was the heaviest snow since 1952. My place looked like this:
It just kept on well into late spring. I was like "What the devil did I wake up my snakes for?" I had brought them out of brumation in January. Well, this year I am waiting until mid February unless it gets too warm for further brumation at night. Last year all my snakes did fine, even breeding for the first time. But then they did not have to shovel snow! This dry weather has been a wonderful relief from last winter. But it does have a price, being increased fire danger.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.
If I ever walked outside my house and it looked like that I would be moving. That's crazy!
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Gerard
"I am the one the hides the universal secret of all time"
If I ever walked outside my house and it looked like that I would be moving. That's crazy!
Well, after shoveling snow over and over, I was just about ready to move to Hawaii, but they don't allow snakes there, and my cats would have been quarantined for months, so here I still am. Besides, I am way out in the woods with only one neighbor within sight, and the peace and quiet is heavenly. I don't do at all well in heavily populated areas.
Today it was really warm. Still cold at night, though. No fence lizards out and about yet, except for my captive colony, which is brought indoors every night. Our hummingbirds never left this winter so we have kept the feeders full. Once the nights get warmer I think I will find reptiles; I have lots of plywood cover to attract snakes and such. My brumation room (the floor of my bedroom) is in the mid 50's Fahrenheit now. Any warmer and I will maybe consider waking my snakes up.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.
That much snow is crazed. I'd be getting cabin fever in no time. I thought I had it bad with an inch or two of snow for four days.
Scott
Im from Miami, that kind of stuff doesn't make sense. I think I really would die.....
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Gerard
"I am the one the hides the universal secret of all time"
Dry winters also make for poor snake hunting.
Cali is late though. Wait until march and see what things turn out like. I went to Cali one yr in may. It was a dry and warm winter. But there was snow falls in may.
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