Arizona Tried to Kill Us....Monsoon Herping in New Mexico and Arizona!
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- The last installment of our AZ and NM trip! This was an amazing trip that had a kinda rough ending, but nevertheless we had a great time and saw some amazing wildlife!
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That bug digging in the ground is a Jerusalem Cricket. It's more commonly known as the potato bug. It's my favorite bug
same
You might not have scored big on snakes, but seeing the antics of your traveling mates def made up for it. Hope carson made a full recovery 😂
Holy shit bro, that creek you were looking at was gorgeous! The landscape with the field of flowers and the few lone trees hanging over the creek is literally something straight out of a fairy tale. It just amazes me that places like that actually exist
That banded rattler: "Oh god these dudes all hopped up on Red Bull." 😅
At one point it literally looked like a scenic wallpaper lol so pretty. Also I like your herping because it's not just 4 animals. There's many even if the same species, it makes it way more fun to watch for us who can't travel and herp to much, great job!
As a born and raised Arizonan I’m shocked you found poison ivy over everything else 😅😬
I hate to say it but my favorite part was when you were filming In the hotel room..........the look on Carson’s face was so sad but funny when he was reacting to what Grahm (sp?) was saying! I had to laugh. I also laughed when you were behind that tractor type vehicle and you were like “this is just great” 😆. Great video guys......I know it wasn’t all what you wanted to be, but you guys seemed to make the best of it. Stay safe! You guys need to do more collabs like this but go some places you have never been! 😄❤️🐬
I think those small black things stuck to the rocks in the stream are black fly larva. They look very, very similar to this.
I came to say the same thing, they look similar to the ones we have back east
Oh, that horned toad lizard was beautiful! Thank you for showing us a close-up.
I caught a Sonoran Mtn king, a few years back in Madera Canyon, while birding, one of the best days ever! Thanks for your amazing work!
Finally got to watch. Enjoy it while you're young and able guy's. Awesome stuff🤙
I've spent so many days searching for the brown vine and green rat snake in that very habitat, with no luck yet, but at least the scenery makes up for it! If you go back, there's a neat spot to find Chiricahua leopard frogs, and barking frogs! Thanks for reminding me of how lucky I am to live near such an amazingly beautiful (and yes, deadly) place :)
Desert flash floods in the monsoon months are never a joke. Glad you made it through.
Most of the washes on traveled roads, paved and not paved, have signs telling you not to cross when flooded. In SE AZ during a storm it's a good idea not to attempt crossing. I will turn around or simply wait until the water goes down if the wash is flooded behind me. A few weeks ago we went looking for cereberus and found the road washed out. Later we heard SAR had been called in to rescue someone earlier on that road. It's not worth it. I'm glad no one was hurt or worse.
@@bradmitchell3765 You are so right Brad. I have seen and nearly been caught in two flash floods here in dry California. They are something to behold but nothing you ever want to get in to On a third event we were up to the doors of a big 4 wheel drive truck passing over an insignificant creek no one even knew about. Lived to tell but learned turning back is always the best option.
We were just in Gila Mtns, New Mexico, full on crazy monsoons all around, must have just missed you guys, herp on
Awesome grasshoppers - in addition to that beautiful Banded Rock. It would have been nice to see the Sidewinder move more.
Great video! That banded rock was awesome and that side wonder was incredible! They are such cool species!
Great video. I hope Carson got his eye checked and better. I really love ed the crowned lizard. He was so cute.
Ouch! Carson's eye looked rough! Hope he's feeling better.
I live in AZ that’s classic monsoon season for you. One hour it’s fine then the next hours it’s flooding and bout hour or two after it’s gone
Some nice finds from one of the great US habitats for herps - Dactylotum bicolor, also known as the rainbow grasshopper, painted grasshopper, or the barber pole grasshopper at the end there, the southern subspecies D. b. variegatum - gorgeous.
Every time I get a notification for these videos I get so excited
Same
Dear boy, while you were in NM did you find our monsoon weather a problem?
You should have visited NM a decade ago for memorable monsoon experiences. Back then there were more predictably potent, significant afternoon monsoon rains -- now it's just hit 'n miss.
In about '05 or '06, here at my house in northern NM one afternoon in August (think it was Aug.), a monsoon event (from an almost black, lowering cell) produced 1.25 inches of rain in 22 minutes. Ah, the good old days...
Thanks for your engaging videos. Never miss a post.
This isn't surprising, but herping is so regional. I didn't even know the sidewinder ranged into SE AZ, never seen one there so they must be rare. But road cruising the Mojave, which I have done extensively, the sidewinder is by far the most common snake. After a couple of nights you won't even want to stop for them.
I remeber the 1st few times me and friend went herping around 11-12yr old. I thought i knew things so i told my friend, they are cold blooded so we have to go when its real hot to find them, mind you this is august, albuquerque, nm. So when i say hot, im not kidding, of course we didnt see one f' ing snake until day 3 when a mega monsoon trapped us under a rock overhang near the stream we were wanna be herping at and as soon as the storm was over and we came out, snakes galore !! Caught ( and released) about 50 wandering garter snakes, 4 bullsnakes and saw 2 rattlers, i think black tailed ? Base of sandia mtn range, think it most likely was black tailed
We’re gonna need an update on Carson’s eye!
The Alligator lizards have a similar pattern to our Blue tongues here in Australia.
I love watching your video's!! Keep it up! So educational! I live in Ky. and always watching out for snakes when I am out. 🐍🐢🐍🐢
Arizona has something called the stupid motorist law....it is usually cited when someone attempts to drive through a monsoon wash and gets stuck, washed away or totally engulfed in water....as I'm sure u guys figured out, those washes can be very dangerous. Glad u made it out keep up the vids.
Had there not been so many other cars doing the same thing we probably would’ve realized how bad it was and turned around! We just mistakenly assumed the locales knew what they were doing.
Maybe not a lot of critters, but well worth watching for Graham's epic rant 😆
10:05
The close up, Two rocks to the right of that lizard is an awesome Banded Agate.
So sorry to see any animal injured. Terribly sad…………
Sad eye wipe Carson and Story Time Graham checking in with you
The toe biters fly!
That black gnarly one was mature, he has a hard shell covering his wings, which work well!
That smaller one was a molt away I guess.
I was in SE AZ during early August last year too, mostly looking for tiger beetles during the heat of the day, but hoping to find lots of other stuff, leps, herps, odes, etc., and it was equally morale-shattering. I've never seen so few butterflies there. One snake in 11 days. Fewer than half the beetles species I was hoping to see. Two years of brutal drought followed by too much rain. It's always still a magical place though. I did bump into a mtn. lion up Scotia Canyon one night, and thankfully I have a decent search image for poison ivy. Good mushrooms too.
I think it rained at least part of every day I was there.
It's a shame you didn't have much luck herping in Southern Arizona. I live in Bisbee, and see reptiles and amphibians practically on a daily basis without trying. I hope you have a chance to come back soon, I'm sure your luck will be better the next time. Great video nonetheless.
finding your channel was a gold
I was out hiking at south mountain, AZ yesterday and seen way more snake activity then usual. You might wanna check there before monsoon season is over.
I feel for Carson! I had to pull the stinger of a bee out of my eyelid last year. My face was still much better off though.
Great video!! I would've bet a whole pay check that a sidewinder was still on your lifer list!! Sucks that Arizona wasn't great cuz it really looked like some crazy beautiful habitat!! Congrats on the lifers!!
Loved the eyes on that little green tree frog
That Sonoran frog was beautiful
You over in my neck of the woods. Have you need out hiking in the huachuca's? Monsoon season is super dangerous. Turn around don't drown. Yeah the roads here are bad there is no drainage here.
Carson wearing the subtronics hoodie at the end. Hell yeah.
The bug in 1:20 is called a Jerusalem cricket, for anyone who's wondering
Awesome vid suffering together priceless
@4:56 I keep hearing the words overplaying in my head, "long beautiful hhhaaaiiirrrrrr!" Lmfao I wonder if their hair bounces when they run? Hahaha
Whenever I go herping I never find any animals but you find like a million animals lol.
I think you have to come at the right type to encounter some reptiles
wow! sky Herping right there @8:20
hahahaha...the dude with the fucked up eye. Super cool looking habitat out there.
Lol Your the extreme philly fishing of herping. Your always looking for your next lifer. Great video as always.
Dude poor Carson! Come back during monsoon season and I can show you a few spots!
Arizona is definitely wild
Awesomeness
Oh you guys are entertaining
wow i have been looking for your channel for a couple years now! i just had this video recommended to me and i knew it was you when i heard your voice. guess i never subbed in the past for whatever reason
You guys are awesome! Keep up the good work!
Jerusalem cricket, trying to dig his escape.
Dang it Carson hope your eyes ok mam looks painful. Great video as always thanks guys.
Just hiked the middle fork trail in the gila national forest in southern new Mexico.. you would have a day. At the river I must have saw 10 different snakes... Amazing hike as well
I’m the girliest of girls but LOVE watching this channel 😂
I live in AZ and herping has been very strange recently, some still are finding cool stuff but I've been going to the ricons,ritas and huachucas and haven't been able to turn anything up but blacktails
I'm telling everyone AZ is overrated.
@@smetlogik not to sure about all that lol, AZ has more species JUST IN PHOENIX than anyother state in the US, and then another 7 species outside of Phoenix, the herping here (that is..if you know what tour doing) typically is phenomenal. But 3 years without rain until about 3,4 weeks ago will obviously have an effect on any reptiles anywhere
@@AZHerps I dunno, I sure wouldn't want people coming here to AZ, just to be disappointed. I mean, Noah is seriously one of the best herpers out there and AZ was pretty mean to him.
@@smetlogik I'm sure he would agree that's just how herping goes, not going to always have great luck, every herper every location has come up short at one point
@@AZHerps I guess you're right, I've just seen a lot of folks come to AZ and go away with empty pockets and a sore eye.
Thats a beautiful part of Arizona. I expected SE Arizona to be more desert like. That terrain looks a little like Northern Arizona
Best herping of my life was recently in se Arizona.
It's funny to me how the tails on the alligator lizards get better and better
Fundraiser for Carson's new glass eye 🙏
Nice Rock!! Just saw one of those in SE AZ ourselves along with the Madrean Alligators and a ton of other rattlers, but we didn't get the Sonoran Mud turtle. Nice find, but you gotta watch those monsoons!!
Great footage of that alligator lizard, looks similar to the water skinks we get at home.
Lmfao was that your friend or the frog making that noise at 4:15 ?! 😂
At 1:21 is a Jerusalem Cricket which are not seen in Jerusalem and are not crickets. They are also known as Potato Bugs.
Very Nice…..
Wish you were near San Diego! Just stopped here intermittently before I go to Costa Rica tomorrow, cant wait to herp there!
Were you guys in the Gila Wilderness or Sacramento Mountains? Great herping!
Living in S Arizona this monsoon season has been the best I personally have seen. The desert is green. I had know idea all the dormant seeds waiting for water. See all that green in the video? It isn't usually like that.
I wish I was young and a guy with a bunch of friends like these.
(I used to have to go herping alone because guys never wanted to drag a girl along back in the 70’s).
Please hit Washington county Utah!
Looks like your on Ruby/Arivaca road out side of Tucson.
Surprise u haven't found a sidewinder up to this point... figured u had found everything at this point
i live in arizona, welcome to my life
Carson’s eye - dam it looked bad at the end
Sorry my state tried to kill y'all... I moved here (here being the Sonoran Desert) from NW Florida nearly 20 years ago, and it tries to kill me on a regular basis, but I'm still alive so I must be doing something right. Was that Madera Canyon you were in early in the video? Swear it looked like it. If you ever come back for a visit, watch out for the Bark Scorpions, they're not fun to get stung by! Happy Herping! (Also, that banded rock rattler was a GORGEOUS snake!)
I wish you did a log at the end of these
@NKFherping what was wrong with Carson's eye? Poison Ivy?
Hi on your adventure to you come across any scopendra heros Texas red head centipedes they get about 4"-8" long what area did you go to
Holy long haired blonde boi crew!
I can't believe that you guys did not come up a little bit like it's a phoenix because I live up here and I could have showed you a lot of places to go define snakes turtles and everything but you left already so be safe out there
Hi Noah how are you. Big fan of the channel
Are you using a pole or chest mounted gopro?
Ya'll look like the lone gunmen from X-Files.
The only way I have found snakes in mines, is when I'm not looking for snakes. The fly larva stuck to the rocks were AZ black fly
Sponch is excellent but usually a second choice if there's no bubu lubu. Mexico just does those marshmallow treats better.
I’ll have to try to cop some Bubu Lubu. Never heard of it.
Getting poison ivy near your eyes is horrible. One of my buddies has permanent vision damage from scarring on his actual eyeball from poison ivy getting into his eye. His eye swelled shut just like this, for over a week, then permanently saw spots in certain areas, and the reaction produced scars on his eyeball.
I could take you to a place in AZ, all WDs and Mojave greens
Wish I knew U guy's were here I would have went with U
So enjoy watching you! But a shotgun to my head wouldn’t make me do it! Thanks for the education ♥️
Poor Carson.
Poor Carson
Waaahhhhh.
I've had an eye swollen shut with poison ivy before, its not pleasant.
You guys are lucky you didn’t run into traffickers! Not a place to be. And your all lucky to have made it thru that water.
Jerusalem Cricket aka Potato Bug at 1:19. They're creepy looking.
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