These things just seem to find me...

I found this one pulling out of my driveway for work. She had a little head injury so I figured I would nurse her back to health ;)

http://odatria.com/Pictures/Pics%209-16-09/speck1.jpg

This girl my neighbor found maybe 10 miles away. He was going to keep her a pet for the kids then determined it was a bad idea since she is fiesty :) He was going to let her go in the yard, but my wife was talking to his wife at the time...and of course, my wife has my back in these sorts of situations :D I figured if he let it go my "backyard locality" speckled stock would get contaminated, so she is now a part of the collection.

http://odatria.com/Pictures/Pics%209-16-09/speck2.jpg

Very similar pattern on both girls. Now all I need is to come across a male in the back yard and I am going to get a St. Tammany Parish hobby line of speck kings going for myself :D

Nice find. What area are you from?

Pearl River, Louisiana. It is in the southeastern part of the state.....about 35 miles north of New Orleans.

Very nice. There's very little chance of me finding little gems like that in my area. That St.Paddy fellow has a lot to answer for.

Cool finds! I find them in my area also. While growing up in the '80's I caught a gravid female. She laid about two dozen eggs which hatched in a plant filled terrarium in my bed room. Mom and all the babies were released.

I'm also from Louisiana, and I find those all the time too. Are you going to keep them?

I do not know the exact point where the larger female was caught by my neighbor....so I am going to hold onto her instead of screwing up a local genepool by releasing her somewhere she doesn't belong.

The little female....I will probably hold back too....in hopes of finding a male in my yard to start a breeding project with. Having your own 'hobby line' of snakes can be fun, so I think that I will give it a shot if the opportunity presents itself.