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Well,

In total(snake-wise), I found...

34 Shorthead Garter Snakes(Thamnophis brachystoma) - Various sizes, lots of 04 babies, a couple adults

16 Northern Brown Snakes(Storeria dekayi) - Various sizes, 03s and adults

6 Common Garter Snakes(Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) - 5 04' babies and 1 adult

1 Hypomelanistic Shorthead Garter Snake(Thamnophis brachystoma) - Adult

1 Northern Ringneck Snake(Diadophis punctatus edwardsii) - 04 baby

Finally found a ringneck snake. In the same vicinity that 6 others were found, in the last 5 years. Hoping later searches will turn up more.

Below is a pic of the Hypo Shorthead Garter Snake, which is the 2nd documented morph of the Shorthead, the 1st one, was an Erythristic specimen, which I found.

Mike

Michael's Place

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Thats a cool find.Thanks for posting the pic,
jeff

I'm not a snake guy at all but are ringneck's common in PA. I see them all the time when I'm trout fishing and was wondering if they were common.

As a whole, ringneck snakes are common in PA. Anyone could go to areas in Mercer County and easily round up a couple hundred ringnecks. I hunt in Allegheny County, and I won't bring in other PA locale ringneck snakes for genetic reasons. See, the ringneck snakes in Allegheny County can all reach 20 inches in length with no problems, while most other locales of Northern ringneck snakes only get from 13"-15". I don't want the small ringnecks messing up the genes of the larger ones. Plus I've had good luck with switching the Allegheny County ones to mice. But yeah, they are common in PA, rare where I hunt though, found less than 20 specimens in about 20 years.

Mike
Michael's Place

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Michael's Place has updated, better caresheets
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
Helmz777@aol.com
www.freewebs.com/mikesnake

All of that stuff is Kingsnake food... hypo or not.

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Peter Jolles
East Coast Colubrids
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