Herping in Toronto (Lots Of Pics)

[Petruga]

Hey guys me and my dad went herping today, and caught over 30 and took some pics.

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[Petruga]

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[Petruga]

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[Petruga]

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Hope you enjoy, Lee Petruga

[MasSalvaje]

Excellent pics! I love the melanistic tham, keep them coming!

-Thomas

[Petruga]

Thanks and will do

Lee Petruga

[gregmonsta]

Looks like a fantastic day out!!! :D excellent finds!!!

[guidofatherof5]

Looks like it was a GREAT day.
Thanks for sharing the pictures.

[Snake lover 3-25]

wow beautiful! great pics! you found a wc flame and melanistic??!!!

[Snaky]

Looks like a nice herping trip! :)

[charles parenteau]

NOt really a flame garter snake by the way!! But an awesome melanistic looks gravid.

[adamanteus]

Some excellent photos there, Lee. Looks like you had a great time!

[Sid]

Really nice finds and great photos, Lee. Thanks for sharing them with us.

[bkhuff1s]

I've been wanting a jet black garter like that one for a while...

[drache]

great photos, Lee, and some wonderful finds there
what a fun day, and thanks for sharing

[lampy]

Im quite jealous, want to live in a snake area! Built up place like wallasey best we get are pigeons,seagulls an rarely a squirell!

[Philminator]

Im in toronto today for the expo but i want to go to where you were for herping, what park wsit? :) were you near cn tower like in ur first pic? Thanks


Thanks and will do

Lee Petruga

[Mexicofan]

Why the american continent must be so far away??? :(

Good luck with them. :)

[guidofatherof5]

Im in toronto today for the expo but i want to go to where you were for herping, what park wsit? :) were you near cn tower like in ur first pic? Thanks


I wouldn't be sitting around waiting for an answer.
It's been 2 years since this member has been on ;)
Hope the expo. goes well.

[RedSidedSPR]

Those are awesome! I love the melanistic, and that reddish one with a black belly!

[Kantar]

OMG! they are all so beautiful

[Mexicofan]

I wouldn't be sitting around waiting for an answer. It's been 2 years since this member has been on ;)
Hope the expo. goes well.

That´s right, but maybe a good way for reactivating a member to write again.

[guidofatherof5]

That´s right, but maybe a good way for reactivating a member to write again.

Hope so but they will only know about a post to the thread if they subscribe to receive an email about posts to that thread.;)
or randomly stop by.

I'm with you though. Think positive. The Thamnophis is half full:D

[HazAnga]

I'm going up north next week for vacation so I'm hoping too see something.

[Philminator]

yeah I was keeping positive that even though he was inactive someone else or him might of gotten back. I was inactive for over a year and someone replied to one of my posts which made my cell phone ring and so I came on right away :P so why not him? ;) Anyhow I was on leslie street spit whatever they call it there in Toronto and I was 5 hours in Tommy Tompson park and I found nothing :( I just wanted to cry lol. Highest concentration of melanistic garters anywhere and I didn't even find a single garter at all. I had gone up to toronto for the reptile expo and being a true Thamnophis nut I was more excited to herp in the park for a melanistic garter or a eastern flame than the expo. Last night after just coming back from out of town I took a trip to a place I know has lots of garters 30 min away from where I am and sure enough within 10 seconds I found the biggest garter I've ever seen in my life. I will post a picture soon. I won't even say I think she's gravid because I've said that twice and I was way wrong lol.

[PINJOHN]

yeah I was keeping positive that even though he was inactive someone else or him might of gotten back. I was inactive for over a year and someone replied to one of my posts which made my cell phone ring and so I came on right away :P so why not him? ;) Anyhow I was on leslie street spit whatever they call it there in Toronto and I was 5 hours in Tommy Tompson park and I found nothing :( I just wanted to cry lol. Highest concentration of melanistic garters anywhere and I didn't even find a single garter at all. I had gone up to toronto for the reptile expo and being a true Thamnophis nut I was more excited to herp in the park for a melanistic garter or a eastern flame than the expo. Last night after just coming back from out of town I took a trip to a place I know has lots of garters 30 min away from where I am and sure enough within 10 seconds I found the biggest garter I've ever seen in my life. I will post a picture soon. I won't even say I think she's gravid because I've said that twice and I was way wrong lol.

fascinated in the part that said a post made your phone ring how the heck does that happen, please remember i was old when Adam was a lad :D so don't get too technical :confused:

[Philminator]

fascinated in the part that said a post made your phone ring how the heck does that happen, please remember i was old when Adam was a lad :D so don't get too technical :confused:

I have a smartphone that when I receive an email it rings just like when I get a phone call, that's all nothing fancy :P it's just like when you're on the computer and it beeps or gives you a lil pop up thingy showing you received an email, except my phone does it. it's an HTC Hero.

[Petruga]

yeah I was keeping positive that even though he was inactive someone else or him might of gotten back. I was inactive for over a year and someone replied to one of my posts which made my cell phone ring and so I came on right away :P so why not him? ;) Anyhow I was on leslie street spit whatever they call it there in Toronto and I was 5 hours in Tommy Tompson park and I found nothing :( I just wanted to cry lol. Highest concentration of melanistic garters anywhere and I didn't even find a single garter at all. I had gone up to toronto for the reptile expo and being a true Thamnophis nut I was more excited to herp in the park for a melanistic garter or a eastern flame than the expo. Last night after just coming back from out of town I took a trip to a place I know has lots of garters 30 min away from where I am and sure enough within 10 seconds I found the biggest garter I've ever seen in my life. I will post a picture soon. I won't even say I think she's gravid because I've said that twice and I was way wrong lol.


Hey man, yeah its been awhile, just been busy on other forums and what not. but sorry if i replied to late when you were in town. but yeah. with the first pic with the CN Tower in it. thats the view we had when we did it. i went down again this year a couple times. it was pretty crazyyy. caught some NICEEE red sides. tons of melanistics. and last year we picked up some hypo looking one. crazyyyyy stuff man.

Lee Petruga

[Mrs N1ntndo]

OMG those are awesome pics. Howd you get them sooo clear. I love the close ups. Oh man, I wish I could find half the cool snakes you do. Thanks for shearing.

[Philminator]

Hey man, yeah its been awhile, just been busy on other forums and what not. but sorry if i replied to late when you were in town. but yeah. with the first pic with the CN Tower in it. thats the view we had when we did it. i went down again this year a couple times. it was pretty crazyyy. caught some NICEEE red sides. tons of melanistics. and last year we picked up some hypo looking one. crazyyyyy stuff man.

Lee Petruga

was it at tommy thompson park? I think I was near where you were on leslie street where they say lots of melanistics were. I spent about 10 hours in total over 2 days and found absolutely nothing :( I want a pair of melanistics so bad

[Petruga]

it was on the leslie street. we usually find tons of male melanistics, the melanistics are much smaller than the regular sized garter. they dont get nearly as big. but we usually find a handfull of males. not so much females.

[Philminator]

it was on the leslie street. we usually find tons of male melanistics, the melanistics are much smaller than the regular sized garter. they dont get nearly as big. but we usually find a handfull of males. not so much females.

That's where I was and found nothing over several hours. Ah well I can't say I will be driving up there again anytime soon, it's a 10 hour drive there and back. I will have to find someone who can find me a pair and ship them to Ottawa and I'd pay a finders fee. My next trip is Montreal to see if I can find myself some flame garters.

[Kantar]

looks like it could be algonquin island or snake island park around there

cn tower - Google Maps (http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=cn+tower&hl=en&ll=43.626508,-79.349957&spn=0.068093,0.114155&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=31.157482,58.447266&z=13)