k like 0mGz0r where are the snakeys!!!! (field herping)

[adamanteus]

Hey, what do I know? I'm too old to keep up!

[KITKAT]

It has been hot and dry here. I have walked around a mitigation of quite a few acres, and have not seen one snake. Of course there are no logs or stones to flip... just have to encounter one on the move.

Interestingly enough, I also have seen very few frogs along the mitigation pond, where they are sometimes quite common.

I have drop boards across the back of my property and there isn't any activity there either.

[Lee]

No scorching heat right now so I'm going to go look again today see if my luck has turned. Persistance and luck shall bring me a snake ;*).

[stonyloam]

Hot and dry here too. Most of my snakes have gone underground. Was brush hogging the neighbors hay fields today (a pain, the grass flowers kept clogging the radiator, and I had to stop to clean it multiple times) watching for snakes, flushed a hen mallard (must have made her nest in the middle of the field), and a week old fawn jumped up 2 feet in front of the tractor (never saw it, and I was looking cus the doe had been hanging around), a few toads, lots of deer mice, two cottontail rabbits and only one snake, a large common eastern (too fast for me). Everyone made it out alive!

[Lee]

FFS I only found 2 babies today. I really need to get out earlier before the hot sun burns them underground. I know that the fence lizards not too far from my house are out in the morning, but later in the day (times when I look for snakes) they are gone. Hopefully I can catch them as they are comming out to sun themselves after a chilly night.

[adamanteus]

Lee, FFS? I'm sure I'm not the only one here who doesn't understand the abbreviations. It's difficult to respond when I don't know what you're saying.

If it means what I think it might mean...It might be best omitted!

[Lee]

Bet ommitted. :*) lol sorry I'm so used to typing these things. Out of all the forums I visit, 80% are gamer forums. After the latest patch is released for cnc3 I'll move that up to 95% and it will be worse. but hey, I'll get prizes for winning games so its ok !