Best Herping Weekend Ever!!!!

[mr~python]

this weekend we went to our 22 acres and there is a lake down there. i walked around the lake and this saturday i caught/found: 10 plus fence lizzards, two 4 lined skinks, 15 plus frogs, and 7 plus bull frogs . on the way there i saw a dead gopher snake though. today i caught/found 1 mountain patchnose snake(that bit me 3 times), another 10 plus fence lizzards, another four lined skink, and another whole bunch of frogs/bull frogs . but on the way down to the lake i saw a dieing mojave rattlesnake. it was a good weekend in all but on the first day the chain on the motorcycle i was riding and had to walk around a mile before my dad picked me up. i ended up having to ride my moms motorcycle the rest of the weekend!

[daniel1983]

fence lizards ROCK!! I am keeping two as pets right now....they are entertaining

Sounds like you had a fun herping trip....wish I was their to have some fun herp...that is one of my favorite things to do

[mr~python]

i have some pics of the fence lizzards, but nothin else didnt have my camera on me when i caught the patchnose oh well, i gotta tell you guys those 3 four lined skinks i saw were amazing! one actually slipped out of my hand i hid in the tip of my shoe, that was fun

[Shelby]

We don't have much in the way of wild herps around here.

common snapping turtles, painted turtles, bullfrogs, toads, leopard frogs, tree frogs, salamanders, and the occasional musking garter.

[mr~python]

thers herps all over are property, i guess im just lucky!

[daniel1983]

yep you are For some reason, all I find are cottonmouths and copperheads when I go herping(mostly walking through the wood on hunting trips) .....So now I am a paranoid herper...ha

[mr~python]

lol! it really bummed me out when i saw that dieing mojave that had got run over the people up there kill the rattlesnakes on site when they see'em

[frankykeno]

We have tons of critters in the forest here in northern Michigan but sadly not one single snake or lizard that we've ever seen. My hubby Mike tho did save a lovely Painted Turtle the other day when we were driving over to WalMart. Poor thing was trying to cross from one roadside wetland area to the other and it's such a busy road! I nearly had heart failure tho when he stood on the brakes and yelled TURTLE!!!! LMAO My hero!


~~Jo~~

[Ginevive]

Wow, sounds cool! I really wish I could find some lizards around here, but I think they are more southeast in NY.
We have a bunch of wild herps around here; it musta been a good year for toads, because toadlets are hopping all over the place in the evenings. I saw a few huge garter snakes when we were remodeling the barn a few weeks ago; the one looked like she had just eaten a banana, she was so fat. I found a few three lined salamanders under some rocks by the creek, and a bunch of spotted sal larvae, though I never see adult spotteds. I wish for the day that I will actually see a gray treefrog; I hear them all the time in spring but can never find.

[mr~python]

ya know out of all the herps i saw i would have to say the four lined skinks were the most beautiful lizzard i have ever seen! we also have gilberts skinks up there but there kind of dull looking except when there juviniles.