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Snow's gone. Time for herps.

Hi,

Beautiful milk snake! That is a local species that I have not yet seen in the wild. They are impressive snakes, and I would love to videotape one, and/or add a photo to my lifelist. Do you have any suggestions of where to look?

DAVE
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DAVE

All specimens marked with an asterisk indicate a species being bred. Single specimens are rare species that are kept for behavioral and natural history studies.

1.0 Western green toad
1.1 green treefrogs *
1.0 Florida blue garter snake
1.0 Mediterranean gecko
1.1 Oriental fire-bellied toads *
1.0 American bullfrog
0.1 Spanish ribbed newt
0.0.1 Eastern ribbon snake
1.1 red-cheeked mud turtles *
0.1 Dubia day gecko
1.0 Sonoran gopher snake
1.1 rough green snakes *
1.1 giant African black millipedes *
1.0 Okeetee corn snake
0.1 Albino African clawed frog
1.0 Kenyan sand boa
0.0.1 Argentine flame-bellied toadlet
0.0.1 African bullfrog
1.0 yellow * Everglades rat snake intergrade
1.1 Western hognose snakes *
1.2 fire salamanders*
1.1 scarlet kingsnakes*
0.0.1 Argentine horned frog
1.1 Southern ringneck snakes *
0.0.1 night snake
0.0.1 Florida brown snake
0.1 Pine woods snake
1.0 rough earth snake
2 (all of them are female!) Brahminy blind snakes *
0.1 Northern brown snake (GRAVID!)

that you can see with any regularity here in central Massachusetts. I tend to find them under artificial cover near stone walls.

Regards
John

time for herps here, to bad I dropped my cam in the water. nice E milk. I usually don't find them for a few weeks yet
Wayne

I've got to get a strap for mine. I'm a klutz and eventually it will end up at the bottom of a hill.
John

Really nice. What locale??
:Mark

It's local to my neck of the woods (Central Massachusetts). Took me a while to get him to cooperate for that shot. I was taking some photos for Hubbs' new milk snake book (he asked for New England locale a few months ago) and took that profile just for the fun of it (I'm sure Hubbs doesn't need any artsy pics for his book).

Regards
John

What's their ststus up there? Are they protected? Fairly common huh? Some easterns rival any NA snake to me in beauty.
:Mark

and they're relatively common and you can keep a few of them but MA doesn't allow any commercial use of natives.
Well, the milks are probably the prettiest snakes we have up here (at least of what I've seen). But you guys down south and out west are the lucky ones. That's why I work with mandarin ratsnakes, because of my sense of deprivation.
Best regards
John

...here's an old shot of my male for ya...just for spite. lol!
:Mark

What makes me jealous is knowing you guys can find everglades rats and scarlet kings in your backyards. What I wouldn't give to even have anoles on my porch. The mandarins I can buy or breed. But I'd love to go to China and see them in the field. That would be cool.

Thanks for your messages
John

very nice photo!! I love the angle!!

nt

Cool Snake!
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Snakes of Hudspeth County, Texas

Of course, you're being kind. Your posts have twenty nice snakes to my one.
Best regards
John