my herping experience

[bidden]

My girlfriend and I went to a provincial park for the long weekend and we saw a bunch of very cool animals.

The typical gardner snakes were everywhere, saw a couple Eastern smooth green snakes, very awesome green on them.

The highlight was along one of the trails, suprisingly in a very high foot traffic area I saw an Eastern Hognose snake. VERY COOL. It was about 18inches long and had very distint brown/grey bands. I didn't know what it was at the time but did notice it had a very different looking nose, then after a quick search on the net found it.

So after my very best Steve Irwin impression it got away, I really would of like to have seen it up close, maybe even see the 'play dead' it's know for.... ahhhh well....

Saw 3 spotted tirtles in the 'ducks unlimited wetland'. also a cool find concidering they are threatened as well.

A tonne of frogs, mostly green, but a few brown with black around the eyes/head.

So that was my first 'field herping' experience if that's what you want to call it..... Very fun, my girlfriend had a good laugh at me looking everywhere for stuff. We're heading up to the Bruce Pinnensula for Thanksgiving, might see something then, but it will probably be too cold. you never know...