Herping pics

[shaggybill]

Here are some pics of snakes I caught in North Carolina and Indiana recently. The pics are actually frames taken from a camcorder, so the quality is terrible. Sorry 'bout that...

This is one reason I dont blame some people for mistaking Northern Water Snakes for Copperheads.

[shaggybill]

Black Racer biting the crap out of my shoe...

[shaggybill]

I am 6 feet tall. My hands are a few inches apart, and there was still about 10 inches of tail after it left my hand. Black Racer...

[Mike177]

looks like a good catch! i am going to west texas this summer sometime to go herping but around my house i only find watersnakes and texas rats

[shaggybill]

Looking down the throat of the Racer as he struck at my camcorder lense.

[shaggybill]

Stare down with a Black Rat.

He won...

[snkmn]

nice pic of the black rat stare down butit would have been funny if it bit you ( no offence it just would look funny)

[shaggybill]

Yeah, it would have been funny, and I would have been a little more worried, but when I first picked him up, he acted like it happened all the time. Calm as could be and just looking around.

[BWSmith]

he he, if you had just said "a dam snake started chewing on my shoe" I think most would have known it was a racer ;)

[Bencb3]

man i wish i could find snakes like that, im just below him in south carolina, all the people go to the places where i look so i they go away from them
grrr.....ill keep looking

[snkmn]

just keep looking bencb3

[shaggybill]

South Carolina? Man, you're in snake heaven. I actually live in Indiana and was just visiting NC. You should be able to find tons of snakes there in SC.

[snkmn]

he is right ben. my friends dad was just in SC a few months ago and he said that he saw a ton of snakes