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Just thought I would try to post my first pic in this forum. I think it worked ok ...

This is an eastern milk found in a bag of potting soil in my greenhouse on the north shore of Lake Erie, Ontario. I reached in to repot a plant and pulled out this snake in a ball! I was so happy! Just imagine somebody who doesn't like snakes finding one this way! This was the second wild milk I have ever found .. I plan to set up a similar "bag of soil" next year to attract more. The first milk I found was a young baby trying to eat a ringneck in Algonquin park. (Looked like a fluorescent orange, white and red ball - imposible to miss for a salamander hunter!) I have a bad quality pic which I will try to post later. This brings up a quesion about Ontario milks also - if anybody out there can answer feel free. The one I found in Algonquin park (6 hours north) was very young but pure white and pure red - I can't picture it fading to the brown and grey colour of this one. Has anybody found an adult red milk in Ontario before? I have a feeling that there are some unrecognized milk locales in Ontario. -A park publication also stated that only 9 milk snakes had previously been found in Algonquin park.

When you say red milk in ontario do you mean an actual red milk(syspila)which no one has found in ontario and never will or do you mean a red colour milk which yes I have found quite a few,the reddest one being found in a bog you may be familiar with on the north shore of lake erie.I have also found very strange patterned milks and a green milk

I've kept and seen 100's of e milks milks through out my life 20 years or so, and have seen some really red ones, turn dark. sometimes adults stay a little lighter in color but not ever the vibrant red they have as juveniles.
wayne

No sorry I do not mean an actual "Red Milk" I was just describing how vibrant the baby looked. Which bog are you talking about by the way .. Long Point area?