That Dekay's, I would have mistaken it as a garter snake. I appreciate you doing this channel because it has truly made me less afraid of meeting a snake in my yard. I think I could even identify them now. You've also made me realize that looking down isn't the only place snakes can be. That freaks me out a little but I think less so now. So thank you.
So I live in Maine, A very cold state, so I can’t go helping year round, it really sucks, I caught the first snake of the year A week or two ago, and just the day after, there was a blizzard. And a few days after that, it rained a TON and caused many power outages. I freaking wish I lived in a state that was at least a lil warmer 😥
Really good segment. That Rat snake was awesome . So many great finds . I could never stand the smell of a Garter snakes musk , nearly puke every time.
Aussie here enjoying a look at what you guys have over there. Your snakes seem to be a little more conspicuous than ours. Aussie snakes, it would seem, tend to be a bit more cryptic...down here in the South anyway. Would love to see you find one of the spectacular hognose morphs that I've only seen images of. Keep up the great content.
Pat thedog at you got u some giant skinks :) (the blue tongue) and awesome spiders (like the peacock jumping spider) and other amazing and unique animals there :) best we got is the spiny orbweaver in terms of spiders and regular skinks and best we got in terms of snakes is the weastern hognose or corals and their mimics
Cheers! Certainly have some awesome sized skinks here. Turned up a couple of Eastern bluetongues in my backyard this summer. I'm about twenty minutes from the city centre of Adelaide. If you get a chance, check out the Ctenophorus genus dragons, or the Oedura genus geckoes. Awesome critters.
@@douglasstemke2444 Our nation's 2nd largest state of Texas and actually my fav is where (Noah?? I believe that's NKF's first name...makes sense) did so recently in Alpine area as well as Big Bend!! I admit though that Australia became sort of a snake Mecca for me after your Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin did his '10 Most Dangerous Snakes' episode on TV!! Jim C.
That rat snake looked like it was bred with a diamondback. Insanely gorgeous. Cold in the mornings? 30 degrees is T-shirt weather for me. I moved back to ATL before the Olympics. When I was moved in I drove back up north to get my tool box and my plow. Neighbor made fun of me bringing a plow to ATL. Few weeks later it snowed and I made thousands plowing 2 days. Even met people who never ever touched snow.
Love your videos. I'm a novice herper in AZ. Had friends out from PA to go herping in Prescott, N. Phoenix and Yarnell. Found a few and looking fwd to the next trip. Like you, we don't harm them and usually don't touch them. Just capture some images. Keep posting. Thanks
You seem so cool! I bet you have lots of friends. When you get to a million subs you will have to do a contest giveaway for a herping session with you lol. It’s like a “diamondback ratsnake”. 😂
Nice find!!! I have been lucky enough to find quite a few snakes and had my camera in hand to post to my RUclips. Now that's lucky!!! Great. Video and thanks for sharing this. LocStar Naturalist
You’ve got some keen eyesight to be able to spot that kingsnake in those leaves, well done. However you did miss that branch snake in the first stack of tin, third sheet down......
I am so jealous of all these box turtles! I still haven't found one in the the wild yet =( I have been lucky to find some amazing wood turtles though! (eastern CT)
I found one, though it was not wild it was captive, someone released his as he was too comfortable with humans, he had a large injury to his shell, I took him in well my dog brought the turtle to me and we kept him, he thrived until he sadly passed, he was such an amazing NV turtle with soooo much personality, he knew his name and he would walk on a leash and pose for pictures XD
I can't believe I've never seen all those small snakes you guys find,, ring necks and I've already forgotten tne name of the shinny brown one. Been outdoors in Kentucky all my life and of course have seen a few snakes but nothing like you guys find. I've never really looked but still... I did identify this rat snake correctly after watching a few vids.
The DeKay's Brown snake is a good looking little guy. Do they stay on the small side? Don't think I've ever seen a Smooth Earth Snake. I have to wonder how many thousands and thousands of snakes I've walked by without knowing they were there. I do know I see turtles, and turtles, and turtles, like crazy down here in Florida. See Mud turtles all over the place while fishing. Snappers and Red Ear, I also saw a Pygmy Rattler down here... Only once but it was really cool little guy. it was on a concrete drive way when I saw it.
My mother and aunt were fishing in Eastern Alabama back in the early 60’s. They were walking along the bank of a dam created lake and met a game warden heading the opposite direction. Almost immediately after passing him, they heard two gun shots. Two coral snakes were apparently following them and the game warden shot them. It seems somebody had been bitten by one a few days earlier.
Alexis Comella Yeah, I’m in MA. Every day in May is supposed to be 60 degrees+ I want to see NKF herping feeling the same struggle we feel :/ And NE herping is challenging, and sometimes fun
I mentioned you in a video. Because after watching your channel I started my critter list too. Underwater critters, not reptiles like yours, but still.
I once caught a hybrid gray rat corn snake most beautiful snake I've ever seen the next day here in Florida I caught is 3 foot monitor lizard rainbow from Australia and he lived under my house for 5 years
That is a beauty of a Rat Snake. Not sure I would have been able to identify that one. Wonder if the eye problems you find are due to shedding issues or what?
Hey Noah! As always, love the videos. I had a question for you. I've been uploading all my herping data to herpmapper but 90% of the records for my county are from me. Is there a better place to record findings or do people still use herpmapper?
People definitely use Herpmapper but it’s mostly herp people. And unless you live in a popular county, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out you’re the only person uploading from there. iNaturalist gets more uploads from non-herp people.
@@NKFherping thank you! I suppose I'll continue to use herpmapper then simply because I like the format and on my phone it's easy to look back on my records. Keep up the amazing content and God bless!
They've even closed Appalachian Trail heads when we need nature most. Just finished watching a MedCram video about immunity & being in the woods. We now have biological proof that it's good for us! Nice looking snakes, love from Dawson County.
At 15:45 minutes, is it possible that first "watersnake" was actually a gray rat?. When you zoomed in, that was my first thought. Growing up in NW FL, that was our most common snake. As a kid I handled them quite often. Btw, I just watched your Coral Snake video; OMG! I'm so jealous. I've never seen on in the wild. Keep up the great work and Hopefully more people will learn it's not necessary to kill snakes. My Dad kills snakes and I always wished he would'nt. In the past,we had a fish pond and he didnt want the snakes eating his frogs.. LOL.
They’re not too bad this time of year. I get a few here and there, but that’s part of the reason I wear sandals and shorts, I feel them when they start crawling so I hardly ever get bit.
You can take Sulphur pills, after a few days, they want bother getting on you. But, you will smell like rotten eggs when you sweat.... I know someone that took Sulphur when he was collecting plant species for his Master's Degree, no ticks .....
Are you placing all these pieces of tin in these locations, or is there just an epidemic of tin littering in Georgia? I lived briefly in Northeast Georgia. How is the herping in Jackson County?
if those are fire ants and there bothering you, i would find a safe way to remove or eliminate them since they arnt native and are actually invasive:) there are environmentally friendly ways of removing ants so you dont have to worry about hurting other animals
How do u know which snake is which and live ur videos btw there very informational and they have inspired tmr to set out my own tin and keep a check on like every two weeks
Just scribed I've been watching you for awhile I sure like it I'm a snake guy and turtle guy if I ever won $1000000 I'd have a hole apartment full of turtles and snakes LOL
Where in Macon are you herping? Love to go somewhere close to there bc it's not far from me at all. Plus I wanna teach my daughter about snakes and how to respect and treat them.
i was wondering Do You Keep Any reptiles as Pets ? And when you see a snake with say stuckshed etc are you ever tempted to take them home fix them up and then re release them ?
Hello NFK. I have been watching your channel recently. Very interesting. We live in upstate South Carolina. Recently a 4 foot Kingsnake has taken up residence in our backyard I am fine with it , but, it is driving my better half crazy. I fear that I am going to have to catch him and take him elsewhere. They way you are hand catching this critters is really something. I want to catch him, put him in a pillow case and take him elsewhere. I am somewhat nervous about possibly being bitten . Any advice?
That Dekay's, I would have mistaken it as a garter snake. I appreciate you doing this channel because it has truly made me less afraid of meeting a snake in my yard. I think I could even identify them now. You've also made me realize that looking down isn't the only place snakes can be. That freaks me out a little but I think less so now. So thank you.
Yeah: serpents hang out in apple trees and try to tempt you.
@@gyrgrls try? I think that one worked. 😉
Nice! That rat snake is freakn awesome! The potential w, him is off the chain!
Awesome video!!! That rat snake that was inside that dead tree was one of the best looking rat snakes I've ever seen. Cool looking pattern on him.
Damn that rat snake was insane!
I will never look at ratsnakes the same way again. Things are starting to cook here in AZ.
Looks like you are part of the team. Got sum great spots in AZ. Reach out
Go AZ! Things are looking great here
I'm in AZ and a herper as well. Let me know if you'd like to group up sometime
I'm also located in AZ and would love to have a herping meet up trip. Especially since there is nothing else to do.
AZA Herping my friend is herping there right now!
That rat snake in the tree was incredible! Gorgeous markings and colors!!!
I wish I could come with you I’m from central ga Warner Robins and I saw you and I was wanting to go with you but I didn’t want to bother you
So I live in Maine, A very cold state, so I can’t go helping year round, it really sucks, I caught the first snake of the year A week or two ago, and just the day after, there was a blizzard. And a few days after that, it rained a TON and caused many power outages. I freaking wish I lived in a state that was at least a lil warmer 😥
Yeah well, here in Georgia we dont get snow much ever so theres that
@@itzcyclops306 what kind of reptiles do you guys ha e in your area that are invasive or that you're able to catch?
Not Louisiana we may have the best temperatures for herping but you do not what to come here
@@fldbouthat why not go to Louisiana? I really like their hot sauce. But what kind of reptiles do you see around?
@@sakofinnbear5654 you know just the normal 3rd most coronavirus patients and since we're f'ing dumb we still go out to our stores
Loved the second rat snake great color.
I live in Western North Carolina and I have been watching your channel so I can better identify snakes in my area. So, thank you!
That’s A Very Awesome Morph Rat-snake , So Fantastic !!! It’s Very Unique !!! Well Done Again !!! Keep These Awesome Videos Coming !!!
beautiful, I found a patternless copperhead many years ago. I wish I had a camera on me it was an amazing thing to see.
If you would have brought it into captivity you could’ve sold it for enough money to buy a car
@@wafflenuggets5736 And maybe even pay off the fine! ):
Really good segment. That Rat snake was awesome . So many great finds . I could never stand the smell of a Garter snakes musk , nearly puke every time.
Aussie here enjoying a look at what you guys have over there. Your snakes seem to be a little more conspicuous than ours. Aussie snakes, it would seem, tend to be a bit more cryptic...down here in the South anyway. Would love to see you find one of the spectacular hognose morphs that I've only seen images of. Keep up the great content.
Pat thedog at you got u some giant skinks :) (the blue tongue) and awesome spiders (like the peacock jumping spider) and other amazing and unique animals there :) best we got is the spiny orbweaver in terms of spiders and regular skinks and best we got in terms of snakes is the weastern hognose or corals and their mimics
Cheers! Certainly have some awesome sized skinks here. Turned up a couple of Eastern bluetongues in my backyard this summer. I'm about twenty minutes from the city centre of Adelaide. If you get a chance, check out the Ctenophorus genus dragons, or the Oedura genus geckoes. Awesome critters.
I think Scrub Pythons are some of the coolest snakes any where and they make fantastic pets!! Jim C.
I actually had pretty good luck with snakes in southern Australia (Tasmania and S. Western Australia). Where are you located?
@@douglasstemke2444 Our nation's 2nd largest state of Texas and actually my fav is where (Noah?? I believe that's NKF's first name...makes sense) did so recently in Alpine area as well as Big Bend!! I admit though that Australia became sort of a snake Mecca for me after your Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin did his '10 Most Dangerous Snakes' episode on TV!! Jim C.
Snakes are so calm around guys like this. If I got within 25 feet of them they'd go crazy and bite me.
Like I have said before, this guy probably has Steve Irwin rolling over in his grave.
That rat snake looked like it was bred with a diamondback.
Insanely gorgeous.
Cold in the mornings? 30 degrees is T-shirt weather for me.
I moved back to ATL before the Olympics. When I was moved in I drove back up north to get my tool box and my plow.
Neighbor made fun of me bringing a plow to ATL.
Few weeks later it snowed and I made thousands plowing 2 days.
Even met people who never ever touched snow.
Its always a good day when you see a box turtle. I used to see so many as a kid in northeast Alabama and now I've only see a handful in a few years
Finally, ratsnakes! We've been waiting for you!
Herping is now like my new favorite sport because of subscribing to u
Wow that is a nice clean pattern on that first rat snake....and then you found that other SWEEET looking one....total score👍🏻.
Rat snakes are definitely my favorite
Here mid April in ontario,still dreaming about flipping stone and logs.havent even heard spring peepers yet. Oh yeah it's still snowing. Sigh.
Love your videos. I'm a novice herper in AZ. Had friends out from PA to go herping in Prescott, N. Phoenix and Yarnell. Found a few and looking fwd to the next trip. Like you, we don't harm them and usually don't touch them. Just capture some images. Keep posting. Thanks
I am completely terrified of snakes...
And here I am watching a video that has millions of snakes in it and turtles XP
You seem so cool! I bet you have lots of friends. When you get to a million subs you will have to do a contest giveaway for a herping session with you lol. It’s like a “diamondback ratsnake”. 😂
Another great video! I love your channel and I can’t wait till your next video. 👍🏻😄
Nice find!!! I have been lucky enough to find quite a few snakes and had my camera in hand to post to my RUclips. Now that's lucky!!! Great. Video and thanks for sharing this. LocStar Naturalist
“…I’m gonna herp around the house a little bit…”
LOL, I wish we could all say that! 😂 Anyway, I really love your videos and your awesome channel 👍😀
You’ve got some keen eyesight to be able to spot that kingsnake in those leaves, well done. However you did miss that branch snake in the first stack of tin, third sheet down......
I am so jealous of all these box turtles! I still haven't found one in the the wild yet =( I have been lucky to find some amazing wood turtles though! (eastern CT)
I found one, though it was not wild it was captive, someone released his as he was too comfortable with humans, he had a large injury to his shell, I took him in well my dog brought the turtle to me and we kept him, he thrived until he sadly passed, he was such an amazing NV turtle with soooo much personality, he knew his name and he would walk on a leash and pose for pictures XD
Love your videos brother. Very envious! Slim pickings up here in Michigan!
I've never seen a rat like that either, that was really cool
I can't believe I've never seen all those small snakes you guys find,, ring necks and I've already forgotten tne name of the shinny brown one. Been outdoors in Kentucky all my life and of course have seen a few snakes but nothing like you guys find. I've never really looked but still... I did identify this rat snake correctly after watching a few vids.
The DeKay's Brown snake is a good looking little guy. Do they stay on the small side? Don't think I've ever seen a Smooth Earth Snake. I have to wonder how many thousands and thousands of snakes I've walked by without knowing they were there. I do know I see turtles, and turtles, and turtles, like crazy down here in Florida. See Mud turtles all over the place while fishing. Snappers and Red Ear, I also saw a Pygmy Rattler down here... Only once but it was really cool little guy. it was on a concrete drive way when I saw it.
I live in Maine two and I’ve bean herping for about 3 years , and thees past 3 weeks I’ve bean finding lots of snakes at my house like ring snakes
That odd, but nice, Grey rat sorta reminds me of a Mandarin Ratsnake without the yellow...
Beautiful king!, hopefully get one this summer.
My mother and aunt were fishing in Eastern Alabama back in the early 60’s. They were walking along the bank of a dam created lake and met a game warden heading the opposite direction. Almost immediately after passing him, they heard two gun shots. Two coral snakes were apparently following them and the game warden shot them. It seems somebody had been bitten by one a few days earlier.
Things i learnt from this video: finding that king snake was awesome
That's one that is going in the live well for me
Wow. He was stunning. Ratsnake hybrid maybe? Those saddles are crazy.
looks like a corn/rat cross. gorgeous!
That was cool him coming over your shoulder
It’s sooo incredible to find sooo many box turtles 🐢, you don’t find them around here like you use to be able to !!!
Awesome! That Rat snake is cool! You gotta come herp here in New England once this pandemic is over!
Yea I live in Rhode Island and it is cold but the time this is over he should really come hear in New England
Alexis Comella
Yeah, I’m in MA. Every day in May is supposed to be 60 degrees+
I want to see NKF herping feeling the same struggle we feel :/
And NE herping is challenging, and sometimes fun
That one rat snake could be a new species
@Cloud9 Savage that's not legal to do in his state. Hence why he never keeps anything he catches.
Carlin Gray why would he? Let the thing live in the wild
16:18 "SCUSE ME"
I really enjoy watching your videos. Thanks for making them
Wow
I LOVE TURTLES!!! Who else?
Apparently 5 people 😂😂😂
@@rileykouf7453 6 😎
Me
Riley Kouf 12🤷🏽♂️😂
Haha I'm not alone in making a turtle video for my channel 😂
I mentioned you in a video. Because after watching your channel I started my critter list too. Underwater critters, not reptiles like yours, but still.
Good stuff, man! I’ve yet to find my first king of the year here in Arizona
Theres a lot of striped copperheads near where I live
Hey nfk! I needed an experts help... What do u think is the best state for herping and flipping?
Nice to hear the parulas singing.
I once caught a hybrid gray rat corn snake most beautiful snake I've ever seen the next day here in Florida I caught is 3 foot monitor lizard rainbow from Australia and he lived under my house for 5 years
Good work mate 👍👍
That RS is fucking gorgeous, the size and slither of that beauty
Lots of species today, cool video
That is a beauty of a Rat Snake. Not sure I would have been able to identify that one. Wonder if the eye problems you find are due to shedding issues or what?
Hey Noah! As always, love the videos. I had a question for you. I've been uploading all my herping data to herpmapper but 90% of the records for my county are from me. Is there a better place to record findings or do people still use herpmapper?
People definitely use Herpmapper but it’s mostly herp people. And unless you live in a popular county, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out you’re the only person uploading from there. iNaturalist gets more uploads from non-herp people.
@@NKFherping thank you! I suppose I'll continue to use herpmapper then simply because I like the format and on my phone it's easy to look back on my records. Keep up the amazing content and God bless!
Think about how many king snakes you’ve overlooked
Nice video as usual! ✌
I love this channel now more than ever. Because it has nothing to do with you know whut!!!
They've even closed Appalachian Trail heads when we need nature most. Just finished watching a MedCram video about immunity & being in the woods. We now have biological proof that it's good for us! Nice looking snakes, love from Dawson County.
It's actually the safest place to be.
At 15:45 minutes, is it possible that first "watersnake" was actually a gray rat?. When you zoomed in, that was my first thought. Growing up in NW FL, that was our most common snake. As a kid I handled them quite often. Btw, I just watched your Coral Snake video; OMG! I'm so jealous. I've never seen on in the wild. Keep up the great work and Hopefully more people will learn it's not necessary to kill snakes. My Dad kills snakes and I always wished he would'nt. In the past,we had a fish pond and he didnt want the snakes eating his frogs.. LOL.
Those snakes are so cool
If u ever get chance u should show a baby decay snake and baby copper head side by side so people can see difference
Hey there. Just thought id tell ya , eastern box turtles grow about an half an inch a year. And take a life time to grow full grown.
Always nice to find a 6ft ratsnake under the sweetgum trees.
You have become the kinder suprise egg unboxer of the herping community...
Just watched this again and noticed that rats snakes patterns. It's literally a diamond back rat snake 😆
Love what yer doing kiddo, I've got sum good spots in AZ and across our great country. How do I get intouch??
Michael Maggini go AZ!
Sidewinder Rd. You can't go wrong with that name
Bro just out of curiosity as an Eagle Scout, how do you not get smothered with ticks when you trudge through the woods like that?
Got my first head tick in N. Georgia, you just watch for them, they're inevitable here.
They’re not too bad this time of year. I get a few here and there, but that’s part of the reason I wear sandals and shorts, I feel them when they start crawling so I hardly ever get bit.
You can take Sulphur pills, after a few days, they want bother getting on you. But, you will smell like rotten eggs when you sweat.... I know someone that took Sulphur when he was collecting plant species for his Master's Degree, no ticks .....
Beautiful rat snake 😍
Are you placing all these pieces of tin in these locations, or is there just an epidemic of tin littering in Georgia? I lived briefly in Northeast Georgia. How is the herping in Jackson County?
can show the collection of snakes in your house
if those are fire ants and there bothering you, i would find a safe way to remove or eliminate them since they arnt native and are actually invasive:) there are environmentally friendly ways of removing ants so you dont have to worry about hurting other animals
Molten aluminum poured into an ant hole makes an awesome sculpture when dug up after it's allowed to cool.
Thats the biggest ring neck I've ever seen. The other day I caught one in the garden the ring and belly where like a highlighter pink
How do u know which snake is which and live ur videos btw there very informational and they have inspired tmr to set out my own tin and keep a check on like every two weeks
Trees look sick.
Nice one dude
Count the "rings" on his skutes like the rings on a tree.
While looking for snakes around this time of year look for morels, it may be too late in Georgia though
Beautiful rat snake.
That first snake u found looked like a worm ..... it’s the smallest snake I’ve ever seen
Have u ever seen a worm snake
Just scribed I've been watching you for awhile I sure like it I'm a snake guy and turtle guy if I ever won $1000000 I'd have a hole apartment full of turtles and snakes LOL
That rat with the bad was beautiful, wonder how well he/she will make it with one eye?
why are those rat snakes so chill
1 question, do you find a lot of ticks on you after your travels? Where I’m at I’ve been finding a lot
Where in Macon are you herping? Love to go somewhere close to there bc it's not far from me at all. Plus I wanna teach my daughter about snakes and how to respect and treat them.
i was wondering Do You Keep Any reptiles as Pets ? And when you see a snake with say stuckshed etc are you ever tempted to take them home fix them up and then re release them ?
Very interesting
I miss living down there. I need to take a tripe soon.
Have you ever watched a king feeding on a venomous snake
I wonder if it might be a hybrid, alleghaniensis X guttata back cross to alleghaniensis? The wide solid black borders are so suggestive of Okeetee.
Cool snakes bro love your vids
Love your vids
Hello NFK. I have been watching your channel recently. Very interesting. We live in upstate South Carolina. Recently a 4 foot Kingsnake has taken up residence in our backyard I am fine with it , but, it is driving my better half crazy. I fear that I am going to have to catch him and take him elsewhere. They way you are hand catching this critters is really something. I want to catch him, put him in a pillow case and take him elsewhere. I am somewhat nervous about possibly being bitten . Any advice?
One of the ways you can catch a big snake is to grab right behind the head it won’t hurt them and you can’t get bit
Don't baby copperheads have green tails? I could have sworn that was a thing? If so how are people confusing dekay brown snakes as them??