Adult Eastern Milk Snake
Kari and I went on a day trip two days ago to meet up with some herpers in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The weather was absolutely horrible for reptiles and amphibians - cold and rainy - but we gave it a go anyways. Despite the weather, the day turned out to be great. Species found included Long-tailed Salamander, Black Racer, Northern Ringneck Snake, Northern Slimy Salamander, Northern Redback Salamander, Northern Two-lined Salamander, Spring Peeper, and this beauty, an adult Eastern Milk Snake. Strikingly patterned and relatively rare, these guys are surely among my favorite snakes.
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Paul B. on 29 May 2008 at 8:40 pm #
Hey Chris!
Nice photo, love the rock and you have a cool perspective going there. Would you mind explaining how you find the snakes? I’d love to find some, but don’t know how…
Happy shooting!
Paul
Chris Kayler on 29 May 2008 at 9:38 pm #
Hi Paul,
Thanks. Besides finding snakes out basking or on the crawl, you can try “flipping”. If you flip over rocks, many times snakes may be under them. Snakes are definitely the hardest type of Reptile/Amphibian as a whole to find, however. Perseverance is definitely needed!
Jeremy Roy on 16 Aug 2008 at 12:25 pm #
Hi Chris: I was never a big fan of snakes in general, until recently. My wife and have discovered that we have an extremly large family of Eastern Milk Snakes living in and around our house, here in Scarborough Maine. Still not having much intrest, I have done lots of research on this specices only because we figured that if going to have such close roomates, we would like to no more about them. I will say that they very neat markings and intersting habits. I have many of pictures, if you are interested.