My first wild EDB on film! (DUW)

VexalUntil · #1 (**permalink**) 09-02-2008, 02:56 AM

I'm working on a herp survey project at Lake Panasoffkee Wildlife Management Area outside of Wildwood. I've seen a few lifers in the past few months: scarlet snake, barking tree frog, my second Amphiuma, and not one but two Eastern Diamondbacks! I unfortunately didn't have a camera with me for the first EDB sighting, but this time I did. She crawled inside a large wooden box trap that I had set out at the end of a drift fence. A drift fence is a short fence usually made with silk fencing or metal flashing with buckets and mesh traps set around it. It works by forcing whatever runs into the fence into either a bucket buried into the ground or a funnel trap (think of a fish trap).

Here's pics, enjoy!