miguel camacho!
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well, one of the guys i work with was dying to do some herping yesterday...we got off work at 6:30, and having about a 2 hour trip to the research site, i figured we had just enough time to make it there by sunset. on the way down, there was a little rain right before we got to our spot, but it let up just as we got there. when we got there, it was still nice and warm and muggy, i knew the warmth would help as long as the rain held out. first thing we ran into was a juvie garter. a while later, we came upon on crowned snake (very hard to tell from pine straw when speeding down the road at 45-50 mph, but i got it!). after that, there was a scarlet snake, an addition to my buddy's lifelist. but he was getting antsy, cuz he wanted some hots. i told him just wait till about 10 pm, and we should start seeing some pigs. sure enough, right before 10, our first pigmy showed up. then about 10 minutes later, another...the second was a beauty, with a lot of red in its color (not a carolina red though). fortunately, it was an awesome snake, but it was a recapture. good enough for some data at least, but ive likely seen that one before. we kept going, and then finally we struck gold! a big female anery pigmy...my second personal anery pig ever, aside from the one i accidentally ran over earlier this year. 
but it was perfect, he had never gotten anything other than duskies before, and now he had an anery pig to add to his list. she was also perfect for the research my friend plans on conducting to try to find some of the underlying genetics of anerythrism in pigmies. tally ho! it was getting late, so we hit up the cottonmouth site and pulled two out there, one i almost stepped on while trying to grab a huge one. we went back, took all the data, then released everyone except the anery pigmy which will be held onto till my friend gets back from china doing his herp research there. after we released everyone, we went back to the house to drop off the bags. then, there in the carport was another scarlet. i had always wondered if we'd ever find a snake in there, and sure enough we found one. finally, on the way back, we caught a copperhead. fiesty lil fella, my sidekick got a real rush finding 6 individual hots. i had told him as we were leaving that once i hit 9 snakes on the night, then im almost guaranteed to find one more, DOR or AOR, on the way home. sure enough it held true.
unfortunately, because it was a last-minute trip, i didnt get to bring my camera. but i had to bring the last scarlet home, as well as the anery pigmy to hold on for this research. then theres the northern water neonate a guy brought into work, which im going to release near my parent's house at the creek. it was a great night, and ill be sure to snap some pics of the 3 i brought home with me soon to share here.
but it was perfect, he had never gotten anything other than duskies before, and now he had an anery pig to add to his list. she was also perfect for the research my friend plans on conducting to try to find some of the underlying genetics of anerythrism in pigmies. tally ho! it was getting late, so we hit up the cottonmouth site and pulled two out there, one i almost stepped on while trying to grab a huge one. we went back, took all the data, then released everyone except the anery pigmy which will be held onto till my friend gets back from china doing his herp research there. after we released everyone, we went back to the house to drop off the bags. then, there in the carport was another scarlet. i had always wondered if we'd ever find a snake in there, and sure enough we found one. finally, on the way back, we caught a copperhead. fiesty lil fella, my sidekick got a real rush finding 6 individual hots. i had told him as we were leaving that once i hit 9 snakes on the night, then im almost guaranteed to find one more, DOR or AOR, on the way home. sure enough it held true. unfortunately, because it was a last-minute trip, i didnt get to bring my camera. but i had to bring the last scarlet home, as well as the anery pigmy to hold on for this research. then theres the northern water neonate a guy brought into work, which im going to release near my parent's house at the creek. it was a great night, and ill be sure to snap some pics of the 3 i brought home with me soon to share here.
