Yesterday's Herping trip - garter pics included

[Samm]

VA i think

[Stefan-A]

Absolutely amazing.

[Zephyr]

Thanks. It can take some careful looking. In this pic, I was standing where the wet spots on the cement are(those are my bootprints), and had been standing there for a good minute or so, scoping out the area, and about to step forward(which would be straight to the right in the pic), when I noticed this.


Do you see it yet?

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lol
Sneaky little devils...

[Stefan-A]

Thanks. It can take some careful looking. In this pic, I was standing where the wet spots on the cement are(those are my bootprints), and had been standing there for a good minute or so, scoping out the area, and about to step forward(which would be straight to the right in the pic), when I noticed this.


Do you see it yet?

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Took about three seconds to spot it. Just lucky I guess. But what exactly are we looking at? Is that a big triangular head, or does it just look that way?

[Loren]

It is the larger Northern pacific rattlesnake that is coiled up in my first set of pics. About 30-36 inches long.
True, its not really hard to see, but you can also see how easily you could walk right by one like that. The gilberts skink was found the same way- just happened to spot it through the grass.
Always makes me wonder how many more I miss.

[reptileparadise]

Very nice pictures!
If only we had so much reptiles in nature...

[Bay_area]

I didn't find any garters that day only, only rattlers.

[Samm]

I didn't find any garters that day only, only rattlers.

You was that close to rattler...and was calm enough to take awesome pics

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this forum makes me feel like a wimp

[Sid]

Very nice finds. I saw the rear of one Timber Rattler last year and that has been it over the last three years as far as Rattlers

[adamanteus]

I adore Rattlers, and although I have kept many species in the past I have never seen one in the wild.... a situation I hope to remedy one day.