Equally great reply Billy AND exceptional animals. I know I'm growing more and more opinionated with each passing year but there are times where I wish more of the active posters here routinely had photos of wild snakes to share. The genetic potential of herps are obvious and the talents of many of those who breed snakes are off-the-charts exceptional in terms of all of the color and pattern combinations produced.

Personally though, I get more pumped over a few nice photos of an old mud brown Pacific gopher out in an old field someplace being more of a herper and I appreciate the other forums that address the field side, but there are NEVER too many photos of the Pituophis clan. More often, too few.

I've been to the Pinelands Preserve and with those white sand substrates combined with all of the fallen needles and old cones, those black and white northerns blend right in. Even the Okeetee corns, as bright orange as they are, blend right in among a carpet of longleaf pine needles and some filtered sunlight. Corns just don't appear any better than that anywhere else but then there goes my opinion again...
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