OR Red Spotted/Northwestern Den

[ConcinusMan]

Dang. I had the video settings on lowest quality/resolution. No HD. concinnus' mating in the wild at the den site:

[kibakiba]

Your lowest setting looks way better than my highest setting...

[ConcinusMan]

You know what's funny, in it's original format, played on my computer, it looks terrible. Poor decoder I suppose. Once it's uploaded to youtube, they convert it to another format, and then all of the sudden it looks decent. Still, it didn't pick up on the color very well either. Those two snakes in the video look anery but they weren't. They were light orange/yellowish.

[Jeff B]

Very nice pics Richard, you're lucky to have a den site like that that you can go to. I like that pic with the little fungi growing in the background. Beautiful forest out in that area of the country, would like to visit that general area someday.

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, nice to visit. But I have to live here. All I have to say is, bring an umbrella even if it's the peak of summer, waders too and don't stay too long or you will develop webbed feet. Don't blink while you're here, you'll miss summer.

But seriously, you could go any place within 15 square miles of this spot, and den or no den, you'll get to see plenty of snakes in any pocket of appropriate habitat. I am actually surrounded by a highly urbanized area at this location. I'm perhaps a 5 minute walk from strip malls, mass transit, light rail, crowds, traffic.. etc. It's really an oasis in a sea of metropolis.

Oh, and it's not a fugus, it's lichen. Right Stefan? No wait, it's a mushroom. No, mold, oh crud. I just know the stuff grows on everything where it rains a lot. If a surface around here isn't covered in asphalt, it's covered in moss, lichen, molds, or fungi.

[ConcinusMan]

Well guys, I do have several more videos of den activity to show you but I'm back to getting "upload failed due to unknown error" every dang time I try to put them on youtube. *sigh*

Seems to do this periodically, lasting from just a day or two, to several weeks. I have no idea why.

[kibakiba]

I get that all the time if I try to upload it as an avi. No matter what it is, if it's an avi it never works for me. Maybe you're having the same trouble as I did?

[ConcinusMan]

No. Same format I always upload and it's definitely not avi. The videos I upload comply with the specs recommended by youtube. It just goes through periods of time when I can't upload anything without it failing. It's seriously crippling this thread since I have tons of footage to show you from the den, but I can't get it uploaded. This sucks.

[ConcinusMan]

Finally...

[ConcinusMan]