|
96637
ok,ok, I am finally awake [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] about 48 hours on 3.5 hours sleep, so I just awoke from my 13 our nap [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] God I am getting old.
Well, I took off work early on Friday to get some yard work done (so I would not feel guiltyabout going herpin **cough**whipped**cough**). While I am workingontheyard i find a dekayii snake coiled up on a leaf and 5 salamanders. Good start. I go downstairs and see the AWOL Kingsnake peaking his nose out of the hole in the wall I figured he was in, but didn't feel like busting a hole in a concrete wall to get him. I stuck a thermometer down the hole and read it to be 55 degrees. So I set up a basking lamp about a foot outside the hole. I tied a rodent under the basking light and rigged it with my Panic Button so if the mouse moved at all, the alarm would go off [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] Finished up outside. Fed all the mules. Hung out with the wife for the rest of the night and went to bed at about 1 am. Got up at 4:30 am. Double checked the weather channel. It was supposed to be in the low 70's where we were going. A little cool, but not bad for cottons and water snakes. So I head out and go about 100 miles to pick up SwampY to go herpin. It was still chilly when we hit South GA so decided to make a detour and go see a friend. Hung out there and left Swampy got an EDB from him and I picked up a pretty little baby Canebrake. Kept flippin tin. Headed to the ultimate herpin area, flipped tin. THE SUN NEVER CAME OUT!!!! It never got above 61!!!! I did find 4 skinks and an anole that I kept for picky Pyg food. But as far as snakes, had better luck in my yard [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] We both knew going down that it was a slim chance of finding anything, it was more of a trip to scope out new places and tag them witht he GPS. Still would have been nice to catch a nice Cotton. Herpin should be awsome this year!!! THe whole bottom half of GA is WATER!!! 5 year drought is over baby!!! I have never seen it like that! I am so stoked.
Well, needless to say, Jessa did better herpin than we did. At 11am the panic button went off in the basement, she went down stairs and Stinky, the kingsnake, is coiled up under the lamp as happy as he can be! [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] So she grabbed him and put him in a tupperware and left a VERY excited voicemail. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] I may have to get more of the panic button alrms and rig Gopher Tortoise holes! [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_eek.gif[/img] About the only way to see an Indigo [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
So, herping: No snakes. Great spots. New spots. Flooded dirtroads. a few lizards. Awol King is back. Good time. All and all, a great weekend.
P.S. The king is staying in tupperware for a few days to acclimate him. i have to treat him just like I am bringing him out of brumation.
[addsig]
|
