Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[Josh]

lol I am still looking for water snakes I could have swore i saw one last summer

[adamanteus]

It's so frustrating... you know they're there but they just won't show themselves. Don't give up, Josh.

[Josh]

lol I wont i just dont know where to look really the place i saw them was a creek that is always flooded but on that day it was dry because of construction or somethin

[adamanteus]

Sometimes the places to look aren't necessarily the most obvious. Local knowledge is a good startring point... ask the locals (especially gardeners, groundsmen etc) where they see snakes.
This weekend I searched some really wild countryside in Wales, but found nothing. Then I got talking to an old woman who regularly walks her dog along a public footpath with a board-walk across a marsh land. She told me there are so many Adders there, lying out on the cut reeds, that she has to pick her dog up and carry it for fear of it getting bitten. Unfortunately, by the time I got there it was 4pm and about a million degrees C. The point is I would never have found the place without her local knowledge.

[Josh]

Thats a good idea
Ill ask a buddy of mine who lives up there

[Gijs & Sabine]

Congratulations on your new job, James I'm very happy for you.

Bad luck with the adders. But is it not kind of late to do herping? Here in Holland is the best time around april (not if it is freezing ofcourse )

[Josh]

I herp all summer long with usually even results

[adamanteus]

Ill ask a buddy of mine who lives up there

I ask complete strangers! They might think I'm weird, but hey, so what?
I spoke to one very nice young lady, who's garden backed onto rough ground overgrown with bracken.... she was very helpful, she said she's seen Adders and let me search through her garden and the neighbouring land.
Then later we spent a couple of hours sitting out on her patio, chatting and drinking beer. She was very nice to me.

[Snake lover 3-25]

mmmmmmmmm maruchan noodles!!!!!!

[Stefan-A]

mmmmmmm fingernails...