Late April Herping in Western Maryland! Wood Turtles, Black Racers, Ratsnakes, and More!
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Fantastic two days of herping in western Maryland! I come across a few gorgeous Wood Turtles and a variety of snakes!
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Kudos on not disturbing the big guy. Love seeing animals display normal behaviors with lil to no disturbance and those wood turtles.. so jealous. Love the content !
Thank you! And yeah Wood Turtles are awesome, glad we have a healthy population of them in my area!
Awesome video! Great finds! Loved the rats and racer. Baby painted turtles are always nice to find. Keep up the great work on your channel!
Thank you! Much appreciated!
The drinking 🐀snake...awesome! The garter🐍s are some of my favorites. I flip a good but of ribbon snakes. Very nice racer, my friend.
Thank you! Wish we had ribbons in my area, such a cool species!
Fantastic video! Those wood turtles at the beginning were super cool. You're finding a lot of cool herps this year!
Thank you! Been pretty lucky this year so far!
Great video. The Rat Snake eating was a really cool find. That was the calmest Racer I’ve seen.
Thank you!
Those wood turtles are so cool looking, agree with you on the shell, too. Lots going on there compared to other turtles. Cool observation on the eastern rat drinking. It's a thing here in AZ to carry a bottle cap or small lid to give snakes drinks. Especially during a bad monsoon year, which happened in 2020. Rat and a racer, that's pretty stinking cool. Things are hoppin' out there.
Yeah, I've seen quite a few videos of people giving water to snakes out west. Never tried it before out my way, but water is pretty abundant out here so I doubt they'd need some help. Things are definitely picking up out here but we are now in another cold stretch which will slow things down again.
@@wiredwilderness4431 I think it's the huge lack of water here that makes it easier to offer water, you're correct. I've been amazed how many snakes have taken the offer. We're seeing things, 5-6 rocks the other day, az mtn king, kings, threads, etc.. just not really rockin' yet. AZ is weird that way, need some 90+ temps for a good stretch I guess.
You are going through alot for those videos. Huge Respect 🙏 thanks
I appreciate that
brilliant drinking footage. love that kind of thing
Was an awesome experience!
Wood turtles are so cool, they are on my list to find.
Yeah, they are awesome! I hope you get to see one!
Dude that Rat Snake drinking out of the tire was so sick!
Yeah, it was pretty awesome!
Wood turtles are definitely a species I need to find one day. Great encounter on the drinking rat snake.
Hope you get the chance to see one! Very cool species of turtle!
We searched sooooooo hard for wood turtles last year only found a shell of a dead one smh hopefully our lifer will happen this year! Awesome video!
Thank you! Spring and late Fall are the best times to look for Woods. I happen upon them uncommonly during the summer but that's just luck.
This is awesome man! I do the same thing up here in maine. We don't have quite the variety you do though unfortunately :( Good finds 👍
Thank you! Yeah definitely less stuff up your way. Always wanted to visit Maine, might make a trip up there next year!
@@wiredwilderness4431 yeah it has its bright spots. Just not a huge variety in terms of snakes. There is a little-known place here that has a ton of northern water snakes by a dam. Fun to poke around there. Snappers and other things too. I set hoop net traps to catch turtles. I just enjoy capturing and photographing them and releasing. That can be fun when you haul up 4-5 huge snapping turtles at once😁. Happy herping!
Loved the orange color turtle
They are so pretty!
@@wiredwilderness4431 never saw one in my country iraq
@@aveenshareef Not surprised, I don't think there are many species of turtles in your part of the world.
@@wiredwilderness4431 yes, ppl in my country still believe that if you touch a frog you will have a wart!😑 I was the crazy one cause I was taking them out of the street in order to not to get under cars😑 sometimes old saying are funny
Dope video bro
Thank you!
Would you mind saying what county you’re helping in? I’m in Washington County and new to the area but would love to get out there. If you said in the video I didn’t catch it. Sorry! Great video! Thank you.
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So almost all my videos are just west of you in Garrett and Allegany counties! And thank you!
Is there any owls in your area 👀 🤔
Yep! I've seen 7 species of owls in the county I live in!
@@wiredwilderness4431 I hope I'm not asking for alot, but can you kindly include them in your videos if that's possible
@@aveenshareef I absolutely can if i get that chance to get one on film! They are pretty secretive so they aren't the easiest thing to film.
@@wiredwilderness4431 thank you so much🙏