Weell BW.. What ya catch on that herpin trip yesterday ??

Ya told us in chat that you were going herping in south GA. So what exactly did ya come across and did anything follow you home at all ?
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[Bry]

Yeah, an ominous "V" of obscure black unidentified flying objects with wings followed him home. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]

Bry
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LOL Bry.. He didn't have Julius with him. Thought that happens when they go herping together ? [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]
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[Bry]

It's the curse. [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Bry
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[Ed_r]

A Cold? [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]
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[eddie]

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Nah, he too slow for that!

And even if he did catch it, he would have no idea what to do with it! [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
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[BWSmith]

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.
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LOL.. Next herping trip take Jessa and leave BW home then. She has better luck finding what is being looked for hehe [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img] [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif[/img]

GREAT that ya found the awol ks though [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
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[zero_point_one]

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Well... it actually went a little like this: (Now keep in mind, I can only see about six inches in front of my face without my contacts in.) I woke up at about 10:30 and was lounging in bed trying to motivate myself to get up and get coffee. It wasn't working very well. After about half an hour of this the panic button started going off. My first though was a great deal of obsenities before realizing that it was the trap for the king snake. Run to the bathroom, put in contacts, which doesn't take long. Alarm still going off. Race down stairs, run to the other side of the basement and stop about six feet from Stinky. Now I had to figure out how to avoid scaring him back into his hole. Grabbing a hook crossed my mind, but finally I decided to go ahead and just grab him. He didn't budge. So, here I am with this AWOL kingsnake in my hands and no place to put him. So, I run upstairs and call Brian, with the snake in my hand - who left me a nice present across my wrist. I run back down stairs and start look for tupperware, which either has a snake in it or water. I finally threw him in an aquarium for a minute, emptied out tupperware and transferred him to a secure location. All this before my first cup of coffee.

After that, I hand washed two bathroom floors and hand polished the livingroom floor. So much excitement for one Saturday.
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UH HUH..Obscenities huh ? Aimed at BW and thinking that one of his hots was awol or something like that HUH ? lol
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	Venomous Reptile A term commonly used to refer to a venomous reptile. Most commonly used in reference to venomous snakes.

[zero_point_one]

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LOL. Actually mostly aimed at the kingsnake for picking that exact moment. He couldn't wait 15 more minutes for nature to finally motivate me enough to get out of bed, put my contacts in and start the coffee. The rest of them were aimed at BW for not thinking about the fact that he would not be here Sat and that I would be the one having to catch that snake.

But at least when he got home I was able to rub it in his face that I caught more snakes than he did this weekend.
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	Venomous Reptile A term commonly used to refer to a venomous reptile. Most commonly used in reference to venomous snakes.