things found while herping - Page 4

galad · 07-19-05, 12:10 AM

lol are you sure you guys arent finding these things in people back yards. You know hopping fences doesnt count as feild herping.
Also id be carefull about robbing any plants i would kick the crap out of anyone stealing from me, and im not a drug dealer.

I almost stepped on a baby deer once. I was walking along with a freind and we see a doe. walk abit further and i just stopped to look at her and i look down and it took me 30 seconds to notice it a foot away from me lying perfectly still. I kicked a rock at it and it sprung up so fast it scared the crap out of me!! lmfao
It then took off along side mama.

great stuff

peace

redarm · 07-20-05, 06:48 PM

Wow!! you canadians have all the fun . Dope and naked people . I need to go to canada to herp search All I saw last time was a sub-adult newt and a mud puppy.

thanks

hotz · 07-21-05, 08:26 PM

I was a few hours from the city and went into a pond to look about. One of us found a tiger salamander pup (axotyl ?) inside a sealed P.J.s bag and it was still alive.

outcold720 · 07-21-05, 10:20 PM

wow where do you guys go herping?

GulfCoastherper · 07-26-05, 09:10 PM

I've found alot of odd things while herping over the years. I was once herping in a national park well off the beaten trail when I rolled over a log and found a rubber horny toad and a ceramic angel. Quite a bit of Marajuana like others. Lots of porn a few very cool antiques in long abandoned houses and barns. Also stumbed across a very old moonshining opperation in an abandoned barn. Lots of stolen stuff. Found a dead body last yr while looking for Diamon Back terrapins last yr along the tx coast near the La border. A buddy of mine found a C.pricei slide and lots of herp books and meticulous herp notes on herp locales on the floor of an abondoned house, turns out it used to be the house of a former herpetologist who had gotten out of herps.

gonesnakee · 08-08-05, 06:08 PM

Once when I was a kid we went to check out a pond in a park just off of downtown & found around a dozen Natives all whacked out & drinking Lysol spray. I remember we ran outta the woods pretty quick LOL We always wondered prior that why there were always dozens of empty cans of Lysol down there. That was the day we found out why. Mark

headdown · 08-08-05, 07:32 PM

That is alot of crazy s***, I don't think I've found anything even close to being crazy, of course everywhere you go your gonna find the odd condom, I've found many of those but thats about it. You guys are lucky at least if you find no herps you still get some interesting (to say the least) things thrown in!!

kronic2005 · 08-20-05, 11:32 AM

When i was younger(7 yrs), down by the port credit river, i had a record of catching 86 garter snakes and 19 brown snakes in one day, i put them all in one tank and counted them, now im 16, 9 years later, if you go down there u cant even find end trails of snakes. Others stuff ive found herping, salamanders - they where beside this bar/grill place, under these stone, it was really moist there and Fillllllleeedd with creepy crawlys, i geuss thats why they kicked it there, Ive also found garter and brown snakes, the brown snakes are vicious little motherr effers. and ive had some close encounters with norther water snakes which are even more vicious then the brown snakes. Came across some ganj about 8 plants behind a coffee time once, took those suckers straight home. I also found around 5 foot garter snake before, and well over 5 foot female corn ( was a beaut) Ive caught a giant snapping turtle that always used to come to the same spot in this river, i tracked where she put her babies, waited till mid spring for them to hatch, and watched the beauty unfold. I picked a couple up and stuff, they are just the cutest little buttons. Also saw some weird lizards that are mighty fast that bask right beside the water at rivers, no clue what they where, they reminded me of agnoles. Oh yea, dont forget the earwig infested porn mags and used condoms

slith_python · 09-13-05, 11:05 PM

I one foung i billion dollars of solid 100 carrot gold bars, boy, was that a day to remember......lol

moddlasnake · 09-14-05, 06:31 AM

its not really wierd, but interesting, i live in michigan and me and my friend found a red sided garter in a tree and kept it for a while. The wierd thing is, red sideds arent up in michigan,
also we found a black and grey garter, what kind are those?

Cerastes · 10-04-05, 06:52 AM

deleted due to exaggeration!

Them and Us · 10-06-05, 10:56 AM

coolest animals i found herping were timber rattlers and some cool copperheads. and some ringneck snakes which are rare here. got musked all over by a good size nothern water snake. that was fun. i found an old roman constantine coin and there were always condoms strewn about in this one particular area an area where we always found copperheads. explain that one.

mrcanada21 · 10-16-05, 08:38 AM

Lots of pot, lots of gay people, lots of stolen vehicles, a four-wheeler that had been stashed (I re-stashed it and rode it for a few months until it disappeared), a backpack full of hockey cards that I sold for $1000, red-eared sliders laying eggs (in Ontario), a new salalmander species for my county, possibly a new toad for my county (could be released though), a cow, a mountain bike, several burned snowmobiles, thats all I can think of.