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Summer Herping
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by TheFifthDay on June 26, 2010
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I know that road cruizing is a good way to find herps in the summer, but where are the snakes during the day? They've gotta be somewhere, but I can't find them anywhere!
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Jon Short
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by pitbulllady on June 26, 2010
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Most of them have gone deeper in the woods, underneath blown-over tree roots and such, or underneath old barns and other buildings. I went road-cruising with someone yesterday and it only produced one Rough Green, two Tiger Salamanders(both underneath rotting logs inside a dried-up slough)and we did see one nice Cottonmouth around some exposed roots alongside another little creek that still had some water in it. We saw some snake tracks crossing a dirt road, plenty of slider turtles and 'gator slides, but that was it on the snakes, and we drove through some various prime habitats along the SC coastal plains. It's just too hot. Weather is supposed to cool down a bit next week, so hopefully that will bring the snakes back out, but to be truthful even before it got so danged hot I have had little luck finding much, and haven't even seen many DOR's. We had a really brutal winter here, with about three consecutive weeks of nights in the 'teens and days barely getting out of the '30's, IF they got that high, and the ground froze solid in many areas that normally don't experience that sort of thing, and I'm afraid it killed off a lot of our native snakes.
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by Cro on June 26, 2010
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Yep, they are where it is cool. Underground in hollowed out tree roots, down inside of collapsed graves, down under building foundations, in the shade under fronds and leaves, etc.
If you ask bulldozer drivers who are clearing land and stumps, you will have them tell you of numerous snakes that they unearth when grading, etc.
Best Regards
John Z
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