Keep up the great work! After watching your videos, my garden’s ecosystem seems like a big flop or disappointment. I only got grubs, worms, and Tapinoma sessile in my garden. 😢
@@BlackRiptide yeah, if you couldn't tell I typically tend to prefer looking for wildlife outside of the suburbs. The diversity at my own house is probably worse than what you have in your garden, lol
When the air temp drops after dark the road radiates lots of heat. The rattle snakes come to the road closer to sunrise. They spend time soaking sun before sunset and hunt all night using the road for warmth before sunrise. We used to see them at the school buss stops in the morning.
Eastern Diamondbacks are almost fully diurnal, but since the daytime temps get so high in the summer, they limit their activity to mornings and evenings, sometimes hanging out a little past sundown to soak up pavement heat. We probably would have had our best chances to find one in early mornings, but we were much more focused on pythons this trip, which are out very late at night during the summer. Needless to say, we didn't really want to get up super early to find rattlesnakes after staying out until 2 or 3am the previous night.
In Fl. after dark the snakes on the road are not crossing. They are heating on the pavement. On the road was where they intended to be. lol. It's a cold blooded thang.
Eh, right and wrong. The cottonmouths do like to absorb some of the extra heat the pavement holds, but a while after the sun goes down, the pavement cools down to the same temp as the rest of the land - it just takes a little longer to do so, so you get snakes basking on the pavement right after sundown, especially vipers. Colubrids and the pythons exhibit this behavior less. Almost every snake we encountered this trip was actively crossing, not basking, since we were out very late into the night.
those Tockey gecko barks are just too funny. Great video too
I love how you called the cornsnake “personable” 😂
Keep up the great work! After watching your videos, my garden’s ecosystem seems like a big flop or disappointment. I only got grubs, worms, and Tapinoma sessile in my garden. 😢
@@BlackRiptide yeah, if you couldn't tell I typically tend to prefer looking for wildlife outside of the suburbs. The diversity at my own house is probably worse than what you have in your garden, lol
Yooooo
these ants are too long and noodly
XD 😂
@@myrmepropagandist I'm allowed to enjoy other wildlife ok
When the air temp drops after dark the road radiates lots of heat. The rattle snakes come to the road closer to sunrise. They spend time soaking sun before sunset and hunt all night using the road for warmth before sunrise. We used to see them at the school buss stops in the morning.
Eastern Diamondbacks are almost fully diurnal, but since the daytime temps get so high in the summer, they limit their activity to mornings and evenings, sometimes hanging out a little past sundown to soak up pavement heat. We probably would have had our best chances to find one in early mornings, but we were much more focused on pythons this trip, which are out very late at night during the summer. Needless to say, we didn't really want to get up super early to find rattlesnakes after staying out until 2 or 3am the previous night.
such a good vid
mhm
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Bro is not the Yoinkman
You should totally say yoink the next time you do something like that
In Fl. after dark the snakes on the road are not crossing. They are heating on the pavement. On the road was where they intended to be. lol. It's a cold blooded thang.
Eh, right and wrong. The cottonmouths do like to absorb some of the extra heat the pavement holds, but a while after the sun goes down, the pavement cools down to the same temp as the rest of the land - it just takes a little longer to do so, so you get snakes basking on the pavement right after sundown, especially vipers. Colubrids and the pythons exhibit this behavior less. Almost every snake we encountered this trip was actively crossing, not basking, since we were out very late into the night.