Many herpers, like bird-watchers, butterfly-chasers, and autograph-hounds, enjoy keeping a list of their sightings/finds/captures. Here is the record of what reptiles and amphibians I have seen in the field, including the date and state I saw my first(or the first one I can recall specifically). Those marked with an asterisk are so noted because I [...]
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Backdate: 06/18/2005 As I mentioned in a previous post, my wife, the lovely Angela, and our kids spent the week with her parents camping in the lovely Hocking Hills area. There were lots of herps to be found, much to the delight of Eleanor. Actually, as I was taking this picture, Angie had just told her [...] Backdate: 06/05/2005 I know this is a little out of order with some of my other backdated posts. Please forgive me. My son, Winfield, and I headed to Wisconisn on the evening of June 2nd. The basic plan was to spend Friday and Saturday finding as many herps as possible. I had mapped out some spots near [...] Backdate: 06/17/2005 My family and I spent the 3rd week of June camping with my in-laws/her parents/their grandparents. This was at the Hocking Hills area of Ohio, which, in addition to being literally gorge-ous, is herptile rich. I will have more tales and pics of this trip in a later post. There is one specific [...] Backdate: 05/27/2005 As a kid growing up, I read everything about snakes I could get my hands on. From the encyclopedia to books at both the school and public libraries. One of the best books a kid can read on snakes is called A Snake Lover’s Diary by Barbara Brenner (sounds kind of like an ophiofile’s [...] This and several of the forthcoming posts will be backdated. 05/16/2005 Not surprisingly, an Eastern Garter Snake/Thamnophis s. sirtalis was my first snake of the year. I was looking under one of the cover boards at a public hunting grounds not far from where I work, and decided to move it because a sizable colony of red [...] |
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