The Best Herps You Ever Found

reptinut · Aug 19, 2009

I was just curious, what are some of the best herps you've ever found while herping? Mine include:
North American Wood Turtle
Timber Rattlesnake
San Fransisco Garter Snake (yes, that's no type-o)

geckofreak24 · Aug 23, 2009

green iguana
blue tailed skink ( in michigan)
eastern spiny soft shell turtle
eastern massasagua rattle snake

98XJSport · Aug 29, 2009

Baby snapper the size of a golfball

This year Ive found a Blue Spotted Salamander and a Red Spotted Newt. Dont see either often up this way.

Srt14292 · Aug 29, 2009

My find while field herping was an Adder, very proud of finding it was a beaut!

Srt14292 · Aug 29, 2009

oo and a false widow.

Enigmatic_Reptiles · Aug 31, 2009

Well i didn't go out much this year, however my son caught four baby banded geckos in my front yard. other than that just a pacific diamond back rattler. I like to feed them then release them. Its amazing to watch them hunt.

Palor · Aug 31, 2009

My favorite catch in recent years was a Many Lined Skink up in Payson Az.

mainelygeckos · Sep 1, 2009

Well other then Garter snakes and Snapping turtles we don't find many herps around here but this year my son and his friend found a red spotted newt in the eft stage. It was very pretty and a first time seeing one for me.

ElapidSVT · Sep 1, 2009

best of the best:
Indigo snake
beaded lizard

best local
california mt king
rubber boa

snowgyre · Sep 1, 2009

My best of the best:
Indigo Snake
TUATARA! (Sphenodon punctata) WILD! On Tiritiri Matangi Island in New Zealand.

Best local:
Spotted Turtle (in coastal plain of NC)
Coal Skink (in upstate NY)
Copperhead (new county record in GA)
Northern Red Salamander (new zipcode record in upstate NY)

Palor · Sep 1, 2009

snowgyre said:
My best of the best:
TUATARA! (Sphenodon punctata) WILD! On Tiritiri Matangi Island in New Zealand.

The Tuatara trumps anything anyone else has caught, no way around it. Those are about the most wonderful herp on Earth.

BGalloway · Sep 1, 2009

My best (and only) involve the campus pond and some snapping turtles. First was watching a big old snapper get chased out from his hiding spot by a little snapper half his size. And the other was watching my favorite snapper (he's huge and has a little dent in the front left of his shell) try to mate with some female.

There was also this really cute baby turtle but I forget the species, it was less than 3 inches with red spots around the shell, found when they over-drained the pond after a big storm.

ILoveGeckos14 · Sep 17, 2009

I found these frogs recently....though im not sure what they are..

also a baby Florida soft shell

leoman777 · Sep 17, 2009

the best i have found:
diamondback rattlesnake
ring neck snake
another snake found in the woods that i have NEVER seen anywhere
bullfrgos
and a chiricahua leopard frog
gila monster
chuckwalla
desert iguana
collared lizards
zebra tailed lizards
regal horned lizard
side blotched lizards
mountain skink
striped whiptails
and LOTS more!!!! lol

chasem1991 · Oct 16, 2009

diamondback rattlesnake
chuckwalla
desert iguana
collared lizards
zebra tailed lizards
regal horned lizard
side blotched lizards
mountain skink
Blue Tailed skinks
banded geckos
alligator lizards,
pond turtles
cour d' alene salamaders
leopard frogs
western toads

RUBBER boas!!! <3 love em

garter snakes
bull snakes
king snake

and more...

Gregg M · Nov 9, 2009

My top 10 locals are....

10. Pine snakes
9. Eastern Milk snakes
8. Snapping turtles
7. Wood turtles in the dead of winter
6. Eastern box turtles
5. Black racers
4. Garters. Easterns and Checkered. (Although common, they are one of my favorite snakes...)
3. Copper heads
2.Timbers
And my all time best herp I have found is...
1. Eastern hognose snakes... They are so rare in my area...

Tony C · Nov 9, 2009

ILoveGeckos14 said:
I found these frogs recently....though im not sure what they are..

That's a Cuban tree frog, Osteopilus septentrionalis.

baseball2k26 · Nov 9, 2009

Bullfrog i caught when i was 6 i just chased it into a pond and dove on it.

GECKO DUDE · Nov 9, 2009

lets see

30 pound snapper... went in the creek after it lol
baby bull snake
soft shell turtle lots of toads
5 lined skink
lots of garters
fox snake
attempted to catch a cotton mouth

but my best was the 30 pound snapper

Tony C · Nov 9, 2009

Here in Oregon I have found Pacific tree frogs, Bullfrogs, an Oregon Red-legged frog, Oregon newts, various salamanders, skinks, garter snakes, bull snakes, pacific rattlesnakes, and Western Pond turtles. I caught a fire-bellied toad when I lived in Monterey, CA, most likely an escaped pet. When I was stationed in Virginia I used to see snapping turtles in a drainage ditch on the base, and saw Yellow-bellied sea snakes during my deployment to the Persian Gulf. When I lived in Florida I found Cuban tree frogs, Alligators, Knight, Green, and Brown Anoles, Iguanas, garter snakes, Black Racers, and red eared sliders.

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