Archive for June, 2007

Finally. June 30 2007

11:00 - 3:00
Temps 69-75 F
Partly Cloudy/Clear.
Humidity 41%

1 Eastern Box Turtle
TMTC Unided frogs
1 Garter (in a tree)
2 Nerodia
2 N. Ringneck snakes

Started out the day in a new area of an old area I have been hiking.

It seemed like a good spot for something. Hearing a few ATV people coming up the trail I got out of the way and came across my 1st Allegheny County, PA Easten Box Turtle.

Female 5″x4″

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Kyra’s Rat Snake

Kyra came across a baby black rat snake in her yard Thursday June 14th 2007.

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South PA June 2, 2007

8:30am-1:30pm
60f-85f
Sunny/slight overcast
Fayette County PA

1 American Toad
1 Green Frog
15+ Northern Dusky Salamanders
5+ Montain Dusky Salamanders
Thismorrning I took a small trip down to the lower part of PA. The Target was Smooth Greensnakes, Timbers, And Coppers
(NON were seen).

The 1st Spot I stopped was a place I researched for a few weeks for Smooth Greensnakes. The Habitat looked very promising. But For 2 hrs. of searching I came up empty handed.

Habitat Shot:

Next stop was a place that I have checked for Timbers and Copperheads with no luck in the past.. And yet again I didn’t see much promise in finding anything so I packed back out and took a drive around the area.

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