Old Farm LOADED with Rattlesnakes! January Diamondbacks, Box Turtle Rescue, and More!
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2024
- A fantastic finish to January in Georgia! We're rolling in snakes already and it isn't even February yet!
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Bob singing "la la la leprosy" as he's cradling an armadillo is so spiritual and emotional... art.
hahaha... I appreciate you from the grave. :P
:)
Anyway, +shrug+
95% of the population is genetically immune to leprosy, & now it only requires one shot to cure it for life if you do get it. It's not the biblical plague of yore. ; )
So cool that you got to see the spotted laying her eggs.
I WOULD BE PULLING OUT THAT OLD CHEVY THERE
Those diamondbacks haven't missed too many meals. They're looking pretty healthy.
Heh, I was about to comment exactly the same thing. Love to see healthy snakes so early in the year.
Love to see it. I hope that farm remains a haven for diamondbacks for a long time. They are having it really rough in so much of their range.
Diamond back heaven 🎉🎉🎉Seeing that Spotted Salamander laying her eggs was soooooooo AMAZING ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have a female box turtle that has refused to bury herself. It’s dropped down into the high 40s some nights here in SoCal. Got frost a couple of times. Not sure why she hasn’t like the other four.
I go to sleep at night with the sounds of when you were out at night. Say, hey Google, good night and it plays the sounds of the forest.
I’ve set free over fifty Western toads I raised from tadpoles in my backyard some three years ago. Not a one to be found even though I have good cover, a pond and use no chemicals. Call those little shrimps things Scuds.
Good video. Nice to see wildlife.
The EDB's alone would have made this episode special but the stuff you captured at the vernal pool was awesome.
Always love seeing a king... not to mention a rare (and appreciated) Bob Ferguson sighting! Cheers!
Super-cool!!
As you say, just chilling, sitting and watching what 99.999% of the rest of the world knows nothing about, and even fewer will ever see - bliss. It is a big part of what makes life worth living.
The patterns on these snakes are beautiful
Outstanding. Thanks for standing in water in January bringing us this while I place another log on the fire.
Go back and tear down that enclosure so more turtles don't get stuck, please
Awesome video! "Rock a bye Leprosy!" 😅😅
I don't think that diamondback's name was Shirley...
If I’ve said it once I’ll say it again ; I always love watching your Eastern DB videos!
Omgosh...if you watch close to the end of the edit for the egg laying salamander, you can see an egg slide into the mass on the stick!!!! You're very correct, I'd have stayed there and watched her /protected her all night.
I hope your friend Bob doesn’t get Leprosy after holding the armadillos and then getting bit by snake.🙏🏼
Same!
bob with the slide tackle...
That one was on purpose. You should have seen me eat shit in the blackberry and swamp chasing the second one.
@@BobFergusonsFascinature lol
I never in a million yrs would’ve spotted that Diamond Back. Best I stay out of the woods!
They totally just blend in! 😮
Beautiful king snake!! I'm a King Snake guy!!
Such awesome finds!
Needed my snake fix
Beautiful Eastern Diamondback ❤ baby edb is cute
Love the spotted salamanders
Laugh at me if you like, but as an avid viewer I have always wondered this: what is the source of all of these piles of tin (steel roofing or aluminum siding panels) that seem to be ubiquitous in the areas in which you look for snakes? Are they the remains of dilapidated buildings? Do you put them out with owners’ permission to provide shelter and access to the snakes? Just curious. BTW, those diamondbacks were just beautiful!
That baby diamondback buzzing was super cute!
Walking though that shit wow
Love your videos..so informative and interesting.
I was gunna comment on how beautiful that first rat snake was, but the more I watched the more I realized all the snakes you found were beautiful!
Box turtles love super cold water and will submerge to blow the winter snot out! They spend most of the time underground breathing in dirt and go straight to water in spring! They can go completely frozen too.
I smiled so much during this, loved the duo in action here.
When you said King snakes aren't very bitey I almost died I can't remember how many times I have been bit by a king snake
I love the keeled scales on diamondbacks. They have such a cool texturing.
You know I love a amphibian episode! Beautiful snakes today, very chonky.... but that salamander at the end was incredible. Love a night with the frog music playing!
. . . . .I've watched the rest of the video now. The armadillo also brings back memories. The only armadillo and wood storks I've ever seen were on that same base in Kings Bay.
I'm so glad you went in the vernal pool(s). I have been watching about 18 clumps of frog eggs in a runoff of a pond. Now I know that they are Southern Leopard Frog eggs! Recently, we hadn't gotten a lot of rain so a lot of that water had evaporated. I got a bucket and added more water to the clumps I could see. (--Which were more translucent than the other clumps.) I enjoy the herping as an Ecology Major.
If i were a tinker and a herper, it would be like christmas and ma birthday, all rolled into one. 😂
The 1st thing I thought of when I heard "BABY, BABY Diamondback" in your intro was about the I've ever seen a venomous snake in the wild - and it was in your state of Georgia!! I was a submariner in the Navy, and when I my 1st sub was refitting in Kings Bay I was heading off the sub for the evening to spend some liberty time in Jacksonville. As soon as I reached topside coming out the torpedo room hatch there in the water right next to the sub was a baby Eastern Diamondback. I mean, I assume it was a baby as it was only about 16" long. Thanks for the chance to reminisce! Keep putting these out Noah. You're the first herper on RUclips that I started watching, and still my favorite.
As I have said again, there is no true winter there. You basically found most of the main large snakes that someone wants to find there in the warm season. Nice ratsnakes, kingsnake and diamondbacks. The timbers are probably hibernating more as a more northern species. Also, pretty amazing and Lucky that you found the salamander laying eggs. Turtles are pretty resilient. Something should be done about those death traps. The aquatic arthropods are probably amphipods.
I would get the he'll out of there asking for it😂
That neonate adamanteus is adorable!
Bbbbbbbbbaaaabbbyyy diamondback. Way too cute. ❤. So was the armadillo….now that you can pick up. Please don’t pick up the cute DB. That one you may not live to regret. 😂
So good to see that there are still some diamondbacks. Here in NE FL, they have become few and far between with all the development.
12:35 birder photographing is painfully accurate 😂😂
LOVED the little wetland video - please do more of those
This video was sooooooo AWESOME! The diamondbacks and the beautiful king snake were incredible, but the salamander depositing eggs was amazing! I would have had a hard time pulling myself away from that for sure! You have had an amazing start to 2024!!! Have a great weekend……I have another one of your videos to watch! 😄💙🐬🐊🐍🫶🏼
*Rock a bye leprosy*
😂😂😂😂
That was an absolutely epic find! I took a screenshot of that King Snake because of how absolutely gorgeous it was! I keep venomous species and the 2nd diamondback had beautiful coloration!! Keep it up Noah!! Wish I could come with you to get photos. In North Carolina if you're ever interested in a tag along....
First King of the year was a stunner!!
This was great! I have the winter blues so bad! Lol
i had to fast forward with those chirping frogs, that sound, makes me want to put on some old Mississippi blues and crack open a cheap beer lol, and it's a bit too early for that, only thing would ne better is distant thunder and heat lightning flashes
This was an awesome episode!!
Very cool!
He loves armadillos like I do! When I'm in the area that's got them I go nuts to try to catch them in and hold them. I have stuffed animal armadillos and a Taxidermy armadillo
Sweet DB day! lol.
We live near a small municipal airport in Sacramento County in California. We’ve heard the Pacific Tree Frogs in the evening for the last couple of weeks. It was 70 last week with rain in and off, and all the mosquitoes think it’s Spring. Hopefully the frogs will feast on the mosquitoes before they feast on us!
Great video, the diamond backs were amazing
Did y’all flip that barrel over so no more turtles get stuck? Sucks that other one just died- least you saved one
Unfortunately it’s too heavy with all the water, but we will be coming back to that site periodically so I’ll check on it each visit and make sure no one else is stuck.
That live one looked like it had sloughing of its shell or something going on. Definitely suffered some kind of water/abrasive damage. Hopefully, they survive! Poor little guys. 😢
I would cut a section of it out so they can get in and out of it in case they are climbing into it for the water to soak or drink. Box turtles are awesome..
@@NKFherping awesome
@@NKFherping At least try and destroy one of the sides where they cant get trapped
fantastic episode
Great video!
Great video Noah
Always good stuff 👍 thanks again
Love watching your video's, thanx
Omfg! All of those edbs and that king all looked so fat and healthy. What a day that must have been. That was one of the prettiest eastern kings I've ever seen. Thanks for all the dope content. Catch you on the flip-side.
Richard from Arkansas
Very awesome episode ‼️
You should carry a scythe! 🤣 Great day.
“That’s not my hole and don’t call me Shirley!”
Great one Noah
2:41 nature calling you
Right at the very end of the salamander laying eggs, you DID catch an egg coming out!
Snake
"most kingsnakes aren't uh really bitey" every speckled kingsnake in the south will bite you
😂 armadillo capture jersey herpers in the mix yesss
Fun fact: Rattlesnakes are one of the few species of snake (including garters) that give live birth
Great Vedio
Y'all Crazy! Asking to get bit!
I'm terrified of snakes.
BigFannee appeared snakeish today when questioned
waiting for you to say youre planning a trip to Malaysia. cheap accommodation and great food and scare yourself silly wandering around at night where everything is coming to see you
Rattlers have a tendency to breed at certain places. The problem is that they always return to that particular place.
A couple bought a ranch in California. On a certain day they discoverd there yard covered in hundreds and hundreds of all sorts of rattlesnakes. Such stories exist.
You have to see SE Ohio.
I live in eastern NC and was wondering what the best place to find newts and salamanders.
Sitting in the water maybe about to shed
Are any snakes trying to slither to the next tin you go to, in order to get photographed twice?
Catching snakes in January sounds fantastic! The implications for what the conditions must be like there May through ??? not so much though. 😬
May can be really nice on the right days, but there are definitely some early season scorchers mixed in too!
I could live in the south as a troglodite, in a cave or underground. Come out only at night.@@NKFherping
How do yall get access to so many awesome tin flipping lands? Is it public or private land?
Snake boots?
Im surprised no copperheads. Are they out this early?
How do you guys avoid getting eaten up with ticks and chiggers? And you are walking throuogh a ton of poison ivy.... Love the videos, just subscribed!
Hey, how can I get a hold of you? Are you available to get snakes out of my shed in north florida??
Aren't the spotted salamanders (spring lizards) generally somewhat poisonous? Not venomous but poisonous?
"Tin-Flipping" ? Why is there so much tin to flip down there?
(I'm in S-Central NY, & that's not a common thing.)
Is it because there's no worry about tin buildings collapsing in heavy snow?
Ever get struck at when flipping tin? It seems an opportune time for the rattlers or other snakes to strike.
Second 😢
noice
Why did you get so close to him 😅
Kn snak for me
Can a snake eat a leopard frog
They like to eat the wild berries
Btw, Bob looks like Michael Franzese. Any relation?
Please wash your hands after handling an armadillo. I've heard that they can carry Hansen's disease (leprosy)!
They can, and I'm dead.
Seriously though, its pretty idiotic, but also very hard to catch regardless. But I do admit, it's not the smartest thing I've ever done.
The only way to get leprosy is by eating undercooked armadillo, still pretty unlikely
FYI, Armadillos are known to carry leprosy, Best not to handle them