» Site Navigation
0 members and 696 guests
No Members online
Most users ever online was 47,180, 07-16-2025 at 05:30 PM.
» Today's Birthdays
» Stats
Members: 75,905
Threads: 249,101
Posts: 2,572,083
Top Poster: JLC (31,651)
|
-
Some LA and MS herps
Saturday morning my Dad and I got up early to do some herping at a friend's hunting camp in the Homochitto National Forest in southwestern Mississippi. At sunrise we found the first find of the day, a Canebrake phase timber rattlesnake, under some railroad ties. He darted underneath and old tractor implement before we could get him. This thing must have weighed over 600 lbs.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01636.jpg
We found some nearby pieces of metal and a tire rim and jacked it up to where we could hook him out.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01616.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01597.jpg
And if you want to see him rattling, we got a little footage of that.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ikVF7YgyvFE
On the road we found this little box turtle.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01653.jpg
And after having the adrenaline pumping from the rattlesnake, we were too impatient to wait for him to come out of his shell so we put him in a bin and left him alone for a few minutes while we looked around the area.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01676.jpg
We then ran into this little guy, I guess he is a mud turtle?
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01663.jpg
At the camp we found this female fence lizard. She was pretty fat so we are thinking she was gravid.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01722.jpg
At a creek, we found a bunch of these tiny toads.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01734.jpg
Heres box turtle #2, found on a small gravel road.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01692.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01695.jpg
At night we saw this fowlers toad.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01750.jpg
We saw another box turtle, but we had camera difficulties with the lense fogging up so we got no pics.
We then found a common snapper at a lake. As found.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01755.jpg
He had a fishing hook stuck in his mouth, which we gently removed with pliers. That is why he had a little blood on his mouth.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01772.jpg
On the road back we found this little box.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01785.jpg
Found this little ribbon on the bank of a lake.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01807.jpg
On the road back we saw this timber in the road. The car in front of us must have hit him. He had a broken back, but still had some spunk to him for a few minutes. As we took pics, he was getting worse and worse and I'm sure he is dead now.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01856.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01844.jpg
Then found this decent sized Red Ear Slider a few minutes after the rattlesnake.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01872.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...g/DSC01870.jpg
Also seen on the trip were a bunch of ground skinks, green anoles, and TMTC little frogs all over the perimeter of the lakes. Found a few broad headed skinks and five lined skinks which we were unable to catch for photos.
Here is a few older photos.
Western Cottonmouths
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...Picture548.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...Picture583.jpg
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...Picture652.jpg
And a bad pic of a rough green snake.
http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r...m/DSC01510.jpg
John
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
Very cool. Yep looks like a typical trip into the the MS/LA swamp land.
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
Quote:
Originally Posted by SerpentesCiconii
This thing must have weighed over 600 lbs.John
Dang! At first I thought you were talking about the snake. I had to read it again to make sure. Looks like a great trip and some great pics. I love me some Southern Herpin.
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
Yeah, I think 600 lbs may have been an understatement, Thats an 18 wheeler tire rim, I forget to mention that. Both my dad and I tried to tilt it over together and we couldn't budge it at all. You going to the show in Slidell at the end of July?
John
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
What a great adventure!!!! Those boxies haft to be my fav.! :D Gold star for removing that hook from that snapper !!!! :sunny:
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
I didn't know they had one. Now that I do, I'll probably try to make it. I hate the shows in Southern Louisiana, as their advertising usually sucks. I typically find out about a show the week after.
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
I didn't know there was a show in Slidell either. I will have to look into it, although it will probably just be the usual wild caught garbage that is usual for Louisiana shows......
...but I usually attend hoping to 'get lucky'...ha ha...oh well
Where you from John?
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
Freakie Frog, you live in MS right? If so are you going to the Slidell show? It's right by the LA/MS border.
Thanks Laooda, it was nice to see all the boxies and know they is still a nice population of them there.
Yeah muddoc, the only place I saw it was on the LGCHS calendar. It probably won't be big, but I'm gonna combine it with a herping trip to DeSoto National Forest in Southern MS in hopes for black pines, EDBs , and coachwhips.
John
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
Yeah Daniel, I don't usually buy any herps at the shows, I just go to meet people and talk herps. I'm from Baton Rouge.
John
-
Re: Some LA and MS herps
Quote:
Originally Posted by SerpentesCiconii
Freakie Frog, you live in MS right? If so are you going to the Slidell show? It's right by the LA/MS border.
John
I might be Down that way.
|