I went herping again

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

I found
2 female California Red-Sided Garter Snakes (first one is in shed)
1 juvenile male Diablo Range Garter Snake (in shed)
1 adult female Diablo Range Garter Snake (no pics)
1 unknown grey snake (no pics)


1st female California Red-sided Garter Snake:

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2025.jpg
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2023.jpg
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2020.jpg
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2007.jpg

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2017.jpg
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2018.jpg
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2031.jpg
2nd Female California Red-Sided Garter Snake:
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2041.jpg

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2043.jpg
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http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2051.jpg
Diablo Range Garter Snake:
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2040.jpg

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk260/edgyexoticreptiles/DSC_2039.jpg

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

I was a good little boy and didn't keep anything :D

[Loren]

Good job Reed. Very nice snakes.
I just went herping myself- out in the high desert for 2 days and nights. Saw 5 longnosed snakes, 7 great basin gophersnakes, a night snake, a panamint rattler, a bunch of sagebrush lizards, a desert spiny lizard, and western fence lizards.
Still no desert striped whipsnake, which is what I was looking for.

[Hornets23]

Awesome snakes. I wish i could find snakes like that.

[reptileparadise]

Very nice infernalis!


I was a good little boy and didn't keep anything

Nice!

[Sid]

Very nice finds, Reed. I would love to add some Diablo's to my collection some day.

[adamanteus]

Nice finds, Reed. Excellent photos too.:)

[Lori P]

Oh, really really nice Reed. I'm in awe!

[drache]

beautiful snakes, Reed - I admire your fortitude
and the pics are excellent
thatnks

[infernalis]

I was a good little boy and didn't keep anything :D

Six gold stars:D

Very nice finds, great photo work.. Thanks for sharing Reed.

[crzy_kevo]

nice find reed i wish i lived in an area with so much good looking snakes like that

[GartersRock]

I'll admit... I would have kept that CALI RED SIDE!!! ;)

[jitami]

Fun stuff Reed! Thanks for sharing the pics!

[ssssnakeluvr]

Love the infernalis!!!! I need some!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

[Bay_area]

Very nice finds Reed!

If you were at the spot I think you were, that is out of the Diablo Range Garter Snake range. The snake would be an aquatic intergrage, Thamnophis atratus intergrade.
check the page; Thamnophis atratus intergrades (http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/t.a.aquaticus.html)

The other "unknown grey snake" was probly a C. c. mormon, yellow bellied racer. I've seen them out there before on several times. Too fast to get ahold of usually:o
Coluber constrictor mormon (=Coluber mormon) - Western Yellow-bellied Racer (http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/c.mormon.html)

Sincerely, Jerry

[EdgyExoticReptiles]

no it was a diablo, no green no checkers just black with a big yellow stripe and last time i was there i caught a aquatic x diablo integrade, and yea that looks like the grey snake thanks, i dove in the bush after the racer and i pulled out the second female infernalis

Very nice finds Reed!

If you were at the spot I think you were, that is out of the Diablo Range Garter Snake range. The snake would be an aquatic intergrage, Thamnophis atratus intergrade.
check the page; Thamnophis atratus intergrades (http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/t.a.aquaticus.html)

The other "unknown grey snake" was probly a C. c. mormon, yellow bellied racer. I've seen them out there before on several times. Too fast to get ahold of usually:o
Coluber constrictor mormon (=Coluber mormon) - Western Yellow-bellied Racer (http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/c.mormon.html)

Sincerely, Jerry

[jewel-dragons]

hay reed!!! very nice!!!

when do you go to the show in anaheim? saturday or sunday?
if you go also sunday,maybe we can go herping at saturday :-D

[Bay_area]

That area is out of the "pure" range of the Diablo. It has to be an intergrade. Look @ the pic of the adult intergrade from Marin County on this page...
Thamnophis atratus zaxanthus - Diablo Range Gartersnake (http://www.californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/t.a.zaxanthus.html)

Just trying to help you out;)

Jerry

BTW, I thought you were going to get ahold of me next time you went to "the spot"? Maybe next time we could meet up out there:cool: