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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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
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!
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.
Chris
Hi. I am in north Florida, I have come across what I believed to be two baby Black racers. The looked very much like your Eastern Milk Snake. The 2 I captured and released had white bellies with black lines running perpendicular to its length these lines were long and short not in any particular pattern. Can you tell me the difference.
Robert
Hey there thats a nice milk snake i catch them all the time, matter fact i have a baby red eastern milksnake, but it dont have a y on it, it has a white heart on its head so i named it white heart, its beautiful, can u write me back i wanna learn more then i already know, demingsweetl@aol.com
Hey how much are these?
Hello i guess my younger brother was cleaning the side of my house (for a town sale) and he stopped a snake. the first thing he did was jump and ran over to tell me. he said dont tell dad (our dad is scared of them). so of course i help him put this stange snake into a bucket. i say stange because we didnt know what it was. thats not very smart but i knew it wasnt a copper head because i have seen millions.So i look for snakes in pa and the little snake looks just like the one in the picture but its a baby. so thank you vey much
~Ashton
p.s. i am i girl!
i saw one to day are they venumes