An Eastern Milksnake I found a few years ago.

[RegenerationRep]

I've only found 2 of these in my life. One was near my house and the other near Knoebels up north lol I kept this guy for a few days then released him on my property.

http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac129/Nemo-TylerHake-/1sum2010038.jpg

[infernalis]

Sweet... See those almost every day here..

[RegenerationRep]

I love the babies. I found one when I was around 10 and when I went to put it in a jar to take it home I left the top off at the park and it crawled out.

[alessia55]

I never see wild snakes here in PA... that's a nice milk snake

[RegenerationRep]

This year hasn't turned up much for me except for 2 lifers; a northern ringneck and a queensnake. None of the usual water snakes or black rats except for one I got out of my uncles wood shed. Otherwise its just been about 25-30 eastern garters.

[infernalis]

I love the babies..


Just for you...

http://www.thamfriends.com/photos/hatch.jpg

http://www.thamfriends.com/photos/hatchin.jpg

[RegenerationRep]

Thats awesome :D The one I found was bright red and almost white. Maybe it was an albino or something?!

[infernalis]

Thats awesome :D The one I found was bright red and almost white. Maybe it was an albino or something?!

When they reach about 2 months of age they look like this.. believe me, it dulls dramatically with age.

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/breeding/milk.jpg

Adult colouring

http://www.thamfriends.com/photos/carmella1.jpg

http://www.thamfriends.com/photos/carmella2.jpg

http://www.thamfriends.com/photos/carmella3.jpg

http://www.thamfriends.com/photos/carmella4.jpg

[Will0W783]

Wow, it's such a shame they dull down with age- that red is gorgeous.

[RegenerationRep]

Ahh okay those hatchlings looked a little dull. I've always liked them, impossible to get cb here though :/

[infernalis]

If mine breed again, that may not be entirely true.

[Coffee Black]

This year hasn't turned up much for me except for 2 lifers; a northern ringneck and a queensnake. None of the usual water snakes or black rats except for one I got out of my uncles wood shed. Otherwise its just been about 25-30 eastern garters.

I am still on the lookout for ringnecks here's saw a baby this summer but I would really like to see a yearling or adult. My buddy just bought a horse with 16 acres and they claim to have a lot of snakes on the property. Hr said I can go snooping but they won't close until December. Guess im waiting for spring.

[RegenerationRep]

Infernalis; PA has dumb laws. I guess maybe I could if they are morphs, I talked to Shannon Culp on facebook once and she told me that if they are morphs you can buy them. But otherwise you can't buy/sell/or trade natives.

Coffee Black; That sucks, I've never found an adult either, usually their always like 4 inches. I'll post pics of the queen,garters,and ringneck shortly.

[youngster]

you can't buy/sell/or trade natives.

Does anyone know what the reasoning behind this is? I've always wondered.

[RegenerationRep]

I don't know, mostly to stop people from taking them from the wild. But ik people who have had eastern garter and black rat morphs shipped to them.

[infernalis]

Does anyone know what the reasoning behind this is? I've always wondered.

In a nutshell......

A few years ago (1960's into the 1980's) people would mass gather baby turtles for the pet trade, it was not uncommon for people to bring hundreds of hatchlings at a time into pet stores.

Frogs were being gathered by the thousands for frog legs, snapping turtles for soup & garter/ribbon/green snakes were being mass gathered as cheap disposable $5 pets.

States made blanket laws to protect herps from this madness.

However, the likelyhood that the police are going to kick in your door over a garter snake or a milk snake is zero.. unless you have an angry forest ranger who wants you to fry, no one really cares about one or two specimins living in a cage, as long as you are not in posession of federally endangered species, you should be just fine.

[youngster]

Oh I think I knew that. That sucks, wasn't there a poster here a little while back who was mass collecting rattlers?

[infernalis]

Oh I think I knew that. That sucks, wasn't there a poster here a little while back who was mass collecting rattlers?

In Texas it's legal to slaughter as many rattlers as you want.

In the far midwest it's legal to gather them as well.

[youngster]

Really?! Wow, the roundups are one thing but that just sucks.

[RegenerationRep]

Yeah thats why. You can have 1 of anything non endangered, 20 snappers and 20 bullfrogs. But you can't buy them legally here. But idk about having one imported to PA from somewhere else.

[snake man12]

The red babies look exactly like corn snake babies

[infernalis]

I believe that they have been hybridized and are called cream corns??

[RegenerationRep]

A lot of snakes have been hybridized. It wouldn't surprise me. Jungle corns are kings x corns.

[snake man12]

Oh thats pretty cool I will look into that