ontario herpers

[adamofsound]

hey,

well, with spring fast approaching I thought I might like to try some field herping this year. I have never done it seriously, only as a kid finding milk snakes, garters, the odd massassauga rattler etc in the Owen Sound Area (georgian bay/bruce penninsula)

I would like to find some experienced field herpers that would be willing to let me tag along, learn and take a few pics. I now live in the Niagara region but visit the bruce peninsula/owen sound are frequently in the summer (university student, so mom makes free meals and sauble beach is 20 min fom my parents house)

I have seen many herps around st. Catharines (I go to Brock U. and stay all summer becasue there arent any jobs up north) last year while I was mountain biking I saw what I am sure was a bartlets garter, and a few small black snakes with faded grey bands basking on an access road/reservoir levee which leads me to beleive maybe it was a kind of water snake?

I am willing to drive good distances and make day trips out of it.
so, I am going to walk the mountain bike trails and try to get some pictures this summer, but I would love to go with someone who has a better idea of what to look for.
let me know via pm email, or if you are willing to let others get involved, reply to this post and make it public so some of us that want to lear have a way to do it.
thanks very much,
Adam