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More or less snakes this year ?
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by Fabian on June 25, 2004
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I was wondering if people were finding more or less snakes this year ? I hunt a large cypress swamp and have found a large number of dead turtles this year. lots of frogs ( all doing good) but no snakes. I think with all the frogs this year there must be something wrong with the snake populations.
I have seen in the last few years the frog population going up and the snakes going down. I have only taken a few snakes from that area to. Anyone else seeing more frogs and less snakes this year ?
Thanks,
Fabian
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by pygmybait on June 26, 2004
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Northeast Florida is over run right now. Not as many venomous as in years past but the colubrids are all over the place.
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by paulw on June 27, 2004
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I've found more snakes here :) It's odd though, I'm finding nothing while road hunting, but if I go out hiking, esp. in the early morning, I'm almost sure to see at least one or two. I've got massagau, C. atrox, C. viridis, coachwhips, eastern hognose (!), texas longnose, bullsnakes, etc. this season so far. Been great. :)
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by Chance on June 27, 2004
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I too have been having difficulty this year finding snakes. I'm finding plenty of other herps, as well as nonherps, but the snakes are few and far between. I've found no venomous whatsoever this year, when usually by now I would have seen 10s of copperheads on the roads. I was just assuming it was coincidence, but maybe something's up here in our neck of the woods Fabian (well, sort of close enough to say it like that, lol). I have caught a few colubrids, but not even as many as in years past. Let's just hope this is coincidence and not a warning of things to come.
-Chance
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by Fabian on June 28, 2004
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Hey Chance,
Yes we do live pretty close to each other. I found a very nice rough green snake yesterday on the road. Maybe all this rain has something to do with it. "MAN" will it ever stop? LOL. Have you been seeing any dead herps. this year ? I have found several, mostly turtles. It may be just the ones the coons and all are getting But, a lot of them are not eaten. I have not got out and road hunted much but, I have walked a lot of swamps with no luck. A few months ago I got three water snakes in a creek behind my house. I have found no venomous snakes this year at all. That is strange"
It is, and is going to rain hard for the next few days here so I may not get the chance to get out and look much more this week but, I hope to look into this more soon and see what I can find. Let me know what if anything you may find over your way OK ?
Thanks and hope to hear more from others from other parts of the U.S.........Fabian
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by timberrattlesnake89 on June 29, 2004
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This year i have more more snakes than any other year I have seen from kingsnakes to racers to water snakes to rattlesnakes and cottonmouths. Last year was a bad year b/c of fire ants. Fire ants kill reptile eggs. I would say mabye were u live the fire ants are in higher population than in Ga.
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by Chance on June 30, 2004
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Fire ants aren't very common here where I am in Arkansas just yet. And even if they were, all our native pit vipers are live bearing, so they wouldn't affect any eggs. I've found a decent number of colubrids so far this year, it's the venomous that seem absent. Maybe I'm just having a bad luck streak, lol. Or it could have been the timber rattler we found while at a big herp get together back in April. That may have ruined it completely for me all year...lol.
-Chance
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by Sal on July 6, 2004
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I have been finding a lot of snakes this year. Mostly rat snakes and water snakes. Yearling sized gray rats seem to be extremely common. One particular area I herp I've found several adult speckled kingsnakes too.
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