Yep, Kansas again DUW!!!

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Spent about 2 hours out this afternoon and fought the extreme wind (40-50mph). I checked a spot I hadn't been to since last spring. I didn't find many S. polymorpha there last year, but this year...WHOAH!!! They were flippin' everywhere. I saw well over 50 today from little 1 inchers to big 6 inchers as in one of the following pics....

First finds, of course, S. polymorpha adult:


Next was a double poly rock: can you spot them both?


Next was an interesting experience. I've seen a lot of copperheads this year, but not four in the same crevice...along with two small timber rattlers (the horridus fled when put the camera up to the crack):

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This little baby racer followed:


Then some more polymorpha:


another:


Another double polymorpha rock: See 'em?


The coolest find of the day was this TINY neonate red milksnake:



Found this gravid GP skink under a rock:


Toad:


These are EVERYWHERE now, Centruroides vittatus adult female:


Largest Scolopendra polymorpha, about 6":


See the racer, Coluber constrictor:






And to finish off, this picture shows why people from Kansas don't get excited about ringnecks too much:



anyway, hope you enjoyed...until next time...

 

so about the ringnecks. this picture was taken after i had flipped the rock and set it back down and got my camera ready to go. about half of the snakes had fled between the first and this flipping. i probably flipped about 15-20 rocks that had this many or more ringnecks under it. i didn't flip a SINGLE rock without a ringneck and one piece of carpet i flipped had about 200 or so ringnecks under it. i see about 1000 or more every day i go herping around here...