Ok now came spring and I actually became a real herper. I made constant finds of new species for me and searched in many new areas. Too many things to say, so I will just post the photos. The big highlights were my first rattlesnakes (7 total by the time i'm writing this) and Northern Rubber Boas!!

Western Skink (Marin County)

Pacific Gopher Snakes (Marin County)

Pacific Ringneck Snake (Marin County)

Northern Pacific Rattlesnakes! (Marin County)

Sharp-Tailed Snakes (Marin County)

California Alligator Lizard (San Francisco)

Coastal Garter Snake (San Francisco)

California King Snakes (Santa Clara County)

Northern Pacific Rattlesnake (Santa Clara County)

Coastal Garter Snake (San Mateo County)

Baby Northern Rubber Boa! (San Mateo County)

Coastal Garter Snakes (San Mateo County)

Northern Rubber Boa! (San Mateo County)

Western Yellow Bellied Racer! (San Mateo County)

Ok so starting the Spring of 2012, I have begun to learn how to really herp. I read a lot more about how to find snakes and have done lots of research. Consequently, I have started finding tons of snakes and other cool species. While I have been herping more, others things have also taken time in my schedule so I have really disregarded this blog. I seem to have no time to update it and write everything I want to right.

However I still really want to keep this thing up, so it will now become a place where I just post a bunch of pictures of the herps that I find, but there will not be much writing. So here we go. Since I have not posted in about a year, I need to start with my trip to Wassaw Island in Georgia to work on a Sea Turtle Project. Only herps were of course Sea Turtles, tons of alligators (babies!) and then just a couple lizards, frogs and a black racer that was way to fast for me to catch. I only saw the tail end of it scurrying beneath my feet.

Herping died down after that summer mainly because school started and the cold weather set in. But we did make a trip to central Florida around Christmas and saw some alligators (no photos taken). We tried some road cruising in a popular area but a cold front moved in and finding anything was unlikely. But my favorite find of that trip was actually a sign. 

I now know where i'm going once the weather gets better for snakes!

2012 stated off with some California Newts found in Marin County