Herping in Central TX - Apr 13th

[Hamster of Borg]

I went out herping this last weekend with a bunch of friends... I got completely skunked, I didn't find anything myself, but my friends were more than lucky enough for me.

We came across three western coachwhips, a pair of them doing their job to further the species.


A monster TX coral snake (on the right), 35" when most of the corals we see are 24" or less (on the left). This coral was the only animal brought home from our trip - aside from a little gulf coast toad.


And a western diamondback, that was less than impressed at being dug out from under his tin.


As well as a nice 3' prairie king, mm - musky.


Gearing up to be a pretty good year.

Ham

[BWSmith]

Ham, send dat Coral dis way!!!!

[Matt]

looks like a good season indeed!
very nice pics, that is a huge coral snake

[Xetox]

I would love to have that coral!!!!! Come on hook a fellow herper up.....

Where about in texas? I am heading down to Oklahoma this weekend to see what I cant come up with, I got a great deal on a enclosure and figured I would do some field studys while I was down there!

Wow! You found many snakes! And I thought that Black Racer I found was cool!

Are those gloves like coral snake proof and they cannot bite through them? Those would be handy to have here in FL. I've found a few Corals around my house here.

[Hamster of Borg]

Everything was found in the vicinity of Austin, TX - sorry no hookups, if you want one, come on down and we'll go out looking.

The gloves are lined welder's gloves, I wouldn't exactly call them bite proof, but I would imagine from something like a coral they would work pretty well. Certainly no guaranteed protection though - but its not like you can hook a coral, they are most uncooperative in that sense.

Ham

[Pres.Nixon]

Do you know of any good places around Dallas?
I went herping for the first time yesterday I saw a garter two water snakes. We got two red ear sliders A massive Common snaper which must of wheighd like 7 punds I mean he was BIG!!!

[RachelS.]

Post those pics, Axel!!!

[Mike177]

ya nice pics also axel we saw that what we think was a racer