Fantastic Summer Snake Hunting in Florida! Stunning Mud Snake, Coral Snake, and more!
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- An excellent end to the trip, one of the best nights of herping I've had in North Florida!
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2023 Species List: 125
Salamanders:
Spotted Salamander (Ep. 1)
Marbled Salamander (Ep. 1)
Southern Red-backed Salamander (Ep. 1)
Webster’s Salamander (Ep. 2)
Spotted Dusky Salamander (Ep. 2)
Southern Two-lined Salamander (Ep. 2)
Northern Red Salamander (Ep. 2)
Four-toed Salamander (Ep. 2)
Northern Slimy Salamander (Ep. 2)
Carolina Spring Salamander (Ep. 3)
Talladega Seal Salamander (Ep. 3)
Three-lined Salamander (Ep. 4)
Southern Red Salamander (Ep. 5)
Chattooga Dusky Salamander (Ep. 7)
Seal Salamander (Ep. 8)
Blue Ridge Two-lined Salamander (Ep. 8)
Southern Zigzag Salamander (Ep. 8)
Apalachicola Dusky Salamander (Ep. 9)
Hillis’s Dwarf Salamander (Ep. 9)
Southeastern Slimy Salamander (Ep. 12)
Eastern Newt (Ep. 15)
Central Newt (Ep. 16)
Ocmulgee Slimy Salamander (Ep. 16)
Southeastern Dwarf Salamander (Ep. 21)
South Carolina Slimy Salamander
Streamside Salamander (Ep. 34)
Cave Salamander (Ep. 34)
Western Slimy Salamander (Ep. 37)
Frogs:
American Toad (Ep. 2)
Bullfrog (Ep. 2)
Southern Leopard Frog (Ep. 2)
Upland Chorus Frog (Ep. 2)
Pickerel Frog (Ep. 3)
Wood Frog (Ep. 3)
Cope’s Gray Treefrog (Ep. 3)
Green Treefrog (Ep. 3)
Green Frog (Ep. 3)
Squirrel Treefrog (Ep. 6)
Greenhouse Frog (Ep. 7)
Spring Peeper (Ep. 10)
Northern Cricket Frog (Ep. 10)
Southern Toad (Ep. 11)
Bronze Frog (Ep. 11)
Pinewoods Treefrog (Ep. 12)
Eastern Spadefoot Toad (Ep. 12)
Little Grass Frog (Ep. 16)
Southern Chorus Frog (Ep. 16)
Ornate Chorus Frog (Ep. 16)
Collinses’ Mountain Chorus Frog (Ep. 19)
Blanchard’s Cricket Frog (Ep. 35)
Lizards:
Green Anole (Ep. 1)
Eastern Fence Lizard (Ep. 2)
Ground Skink (Ep. 3)
Peninsula Mole Skink (Ep. 7)
Six-lined Racerunner (Ep. 15)
Broad-headed Skink (Ep. 19)
Common Five-lined Skink (Ep. 20)
Eastern Glass Lizard (Ep. 21)
Southeastern Five-lined Skink (Ep. 29)
Eastern Collared Lizard (Ep. 37)
Northern Mole Skink (Ep. 47)
Snakes:
Corn Snake (Ep. 1)
Brown Snake (Ep. 2)
Eastern Smooth Earth Snake (Ep. 3)
Southern Ringneck (Ep. 3)
Cottonmouth (Ep. 5)
Timber Rattlesnake (Ep.5)
Eastern Ratsnake (Ep. 5)
Gray Ratsnake (Ep. 6)
Florida Cottonmouth (Ep. 6)
Peninsula Ribbon Snake (Ep. 7)
Banded Water Snake (Ep. 7)
Copperhead (Ep. 9)
Brown Watersnake (Ep. 10)
Midland Watersnake (Ep. 10)
Eastern Garter Snake (Ep. 11)
Queen Snake (Ep. 11)
Southeastern Crowned Snake (Ep. 11)
Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake (Ep. 12)
Eastern Kingsnake (Ep. 13)
Northern Black Racer (Ep. 15)
Eastern Indigo Snake (Ep. 16)
Southern Black Racer (Ep. 18)
Midwestern Worm Snake (Ep. 19)
Northern Red-bellied Snake (Ep. 19)
Scarlet Kingsnake (Ep. 26)
Northern Scarlet Snake (Ep. 26)
Eastern Worm Snake (Ep. 29)
Eastern Milksnake (Ep. 30)
Northern Ringneck (Ep. 31)
Black Kingsnake (Ep. 34)
Mississippi Ringneck (Ep. 35)
Red Milksnake (Ep. 35)
Western Smooth Earth Snake (Ep. 36)
Osage Copperhead (Ep. 36)
Speckled Kingsnake (Ep. 36)
Western Worm Snake (Ep. 36)
Eastern Yellow-bellied Racer (Ep. 36)
Prairie Ringneck Snake (Ep. 36)
Western Ribbon Snake (Ep. 36)
Rough Earth Snake (Ep. 37)
Yellow-bellied Watersnake (Ep. 38)
Eastern Hognose Snake (Ep. 41)
Southern Hognose Snake (Ep. 41)
Eastern Coachwhip (Ep. 41)
Broad-banded Watersnake (Ep. 42)
Diamondback Watersnake (Ep. 42)
Black-masked Racer (Ep. 42)
Western Ratsnake (Ep. 42)
Mississippi Green Watersnake (Ep. 42)
Graham’s Crayfish Snake (Ep. 42)
Eastern Coral Snake (Ep. 43)
Brownchin Racer (Ep. 48)
Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake (Ep. 48)
Eastern Mud Snake (Ep. 48)
Turtles:
Florida Cooter (Ep. 6)
Eastern River Cooter (Ep. 10)
Yellow-bellied Slider (Ep. 10)
Red-eared Slider (Ep. 10)
Common Snapping Turtle (Ep. 15)
Gopher Tortoise (Ep. 17)
Loggerhead Musk Turtle (Ep. 24)
Eastern Mud Turtle (Ep. 27)
Eastern Musk Turtle (Ep. 29)
Eastern Spiny Softshell Turtle (Ep. 36)
Three-Toed Box Turtle (Ep. 37)
Gulf Coast Box Turtle (Ep. 47)
Crocodilians:
American Alligator (Ep. 6)
Hearing that “Reenk! Reenk! Reenk! Reenk!” Background noise in night cruising videos is the best 🐸
You know it's a good night when you say "this is the best find so far"... and you've already said it 3 times! 🙂 Cheers!
My son was watching this and I'm glad we have good nature shows again. Keep it up
so cool I love snakes so so cool man
Insane number of species in this video! Thanks Noah for another exciting video of field herping. Catch you in the next one bro-ther.
Noah, As always your passion, knowledge and respect for all things herp makes each video informative and entertaining.
Best part's that gorgeous stout nerodia! 😂😊❤
All hail the Midnight Coral!
I love your videos! 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
Mud was awsome, but definitely 100% for sure the biggest Scarlet I've ever seen documented!! Very cool find!! I also really liked that large yellow band on that Coral's head!! Oh, & can't forget about the Pygmy's, always like to see those!!
Incredible assortment of reptiles. I would be very happy to have a night like that- especially toping it off with a coral.
What an amazing night! I'm envious!
Pitcher plant bog was super cool and colorful!
Cool mellow trip
Cool stuff!
In Kissimmee ,,,,, wish me luck tonight
Great Video Man
very nice Noah, we herped the "bombing range" at Markham Park as a youth. the mudsnakes along the banks were innumerable
Absolute beast of a Scarlet, awesome finds!
I love how the snakes are sunbathing and you keep interrupting them. thank you for keeping them safe!!
Geez, you run into some really sassy snakes! 🤣🤣🤣
Awesome Flavas
Gorgeous patterns and colours they give me inspiration for art.
2:17 bro has got some gnarly scars to impress his mates 😎
17:30 bro broke the scarlet snake record
Dusky pygmy is beautiful. well done
That mud had the gnarliest looking hot rot flame colors on its face, beautiful snake!
I've kept a couple scarlet snakes I found here in central Florida for a few months each..I fed them small brown anoles which they happily ate...
Brown chin didn't go without saving face. Lovely little grove of pitcher plants just off 101 a little north of Florence Oregon.
That water snake was girthy as hell
Hermosas 🥰👍🏽🐍🐍🐍
"If you don't think that's cool, then I can't help you". LMAO - amen!
My old stomping grounds! Or close by; Panama City FL native here, now way out in the Sonoran Desert. It was good to see the pine barrens and the beautiful jack-in-the-pulpit bog and all that white sand and the Gulf... If you're ever over by Pensacola you might want to check out the wilder areas near the University of West FL, I used to tromp around the intercoastal waterways there (and canoe them, too, and occasionally get stuck when the tide turned and I'd worn myself out) and I saw a metric buttload of snakes out that way. I'm glad nothing tried to kill you, and thanks for the pics of home! (Also, yes, that monumentally huge scarlet snake was a joy to see. Maybe it's decided to move up to bird eggs? I know they don't do a lot of climbing, but...?)
Noah, have you ever seen a rainbow snake?
Quite a few! There are several older videos featuring them.
Carnivorous plants are my other great love, and it's a goal to visit the red-tube flava sites in FL at some point...down in the grass somewhere you probably wouold have found rosea and maybe psittacina in wet spots, leucophylla might be around the area too. It'd be a dream come true to visit those and then find a mud snake later in the evening.
Yup I've become a novice/amateur botanist and mycologist. Love watch "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't." Anything with the mycologist Allen Rockefeller
Wow, wow, wow…..that’s it!
"A mud turla" 😂😂 I love it
Awesome thumbnail, that Mud Snake is a stunner.
For botany and laughs I recommend Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't - unless you can't stand swearing. LOL
2:08 “A mud turla” 💀💀💀
Looks like my backyard. Glad y'all good luck finding some sneks.
Ohio has cool northern pitcher plants , i never knew what they were until i started taying appention
Boom ! Thanks again 👍
I've had mud snakes eat tadpoles, frogs and water dogs as well
Those are beautiful pitcher plants!
YOO I LOVE YOU VIDS YOU INSPIRED ME IM SO EARLY
You were correct. That was Saracenia flava.
Really interesting about that Pygmy. The rattle looked more like a caudal lure? Perhaps a worm lure for lizards or rodents something like that? Perhaps they can do a rudimentary skin color change for light/heat absorption? Which is why they are different colors at night?
Hi Noah Very nice Herping Quest. You found a ot of different species, that were very pretty.❤🐍Cindy
This past Wednesday I had a red and black banned 8 Inch snake living in Phoenix in the desert mountains my first sight, a Arizona coral snake. I wish I could take a pic phone died. Really cool. Great vid snake man.
When you say "man thats absurd how big this snake is" could you tell us what the average size is so we know why its a unique size. Not complaining 🙏 just asking as i love this channel and have watched you for years! Much love Noah
I do need to be better about that, haha. But the Scarlet Snake seen earlier in the night is a normal sized adult!
Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnakes are among the prettiest in my opinion. Second only to the red Carolina pygmys which are in a class by themselves
Great video as usual bro.
Man, some really cool snakes!
What an awesome video Noah! The number of snakes and the variety was AMAZING! Like you said…..it was a big “W” for sure, and I am so happy that you got to experience that! Sorry about the bug 🤢. 😄💙🐬🐊🐍🫶🏼
FINALLY A 20 MINUTE VIDEO 😭
So a glass lizard has no legs? I wish you guys would find more lizards. I live in Massachusettes and we have no lizards up here. When I go to a state that does have lizards I usually spend a while catching them. California has some of the coolest lizards.
Yeah. They'll look to most people like a sort of snake. But they'll be fairly round and the head blends into the body, like some snakes. The pattern on it will often look like a few stripes running the length of the lizard, darker than the rest which can be a shade of yellow, tan or even sort of gold looking. My cats like to catch them in my garden. The ones I see mostly are the eastern slender glass lizards- a pretty gold/tan color with a couple of dark stripes running the length of the body and a pinkish tan underside.
@@mommy2libras cool. Thank you
A while ago, i sent you a pic of a snake on a pool fence in FL. It was pretty long, less black...more red and white. It makes sense why it has been hanging around now. They have ducks that lay eggs around the pond and i thought they were planning on doing chickens and quail. Mmm.... King Snake Buffet 🐍 All you can eat 😂
💚 #Terra
Awesome video, Noah!
One of your best in my judgment.
The mud . . . the titanic Scarlet . . . the midnight coral!!! WOW!
You alluded to two major $64k questions I’ve wondered for decades:
#1: What do mud snakes eat (besides sirens and amphiumas)?
#2: What do scarlet snakes eat (besides reptile eggs)?
My proposed theories:
#1: A reliable source from the Texas A&M University Herp Club back in the 1980’s told me that a mud snake in east Texas ate green tree frogs in a minnow bucket while in captivity!
That was a surprise to me in that I wouldn’t think muds and tree frogs would come into contact with one another much in the wild.
But it does suggest that they could regularly prey on bronze, green and leopard frogs.
I would also think that eels and salamanders factor in their diet. Probably minnows as well.
#2: I have no knowledge base re: scarlet snakes. I have only collected two in my five decades of herping: one DOR in NC and one live specimen in the west FL gulf coast region around Sarasota.
My educated guess and strong hunch is that they also eat small lizards (chiefly skinks) and small, fossorial snakes (e.g. Carphophis, Virginia, Tantilla, Diadophis and possibly Storeria.
Would you agree or disagree with my hunches?
I think you could be right about both of those hunches Chet! I know captive mud snakes have also been known to take tadpoles, which are abundant in most freshwater ecosystems here. And Scarlet Snakes could probably make easy meals out of sleeping lizards, they’re found climbing fairly regularly in south Florida.
Excellent, Noah. Thx for your feedback. Both of your examples seem very plausible indeed. . . i. e. tadpoles and sleeping lizards.
Good diversity of species overall. Nice large water snakes, mudsnake and coral. For some reason, I thought that mud snakes don’t grow very large, probably because they may have a specialized diet. Most specialist snakes tend to be small. I suspect that they are eating eels or some other types of fish on occasion, when they cannot find their favorite salamanders. I have associated scarlet snakes with flipping in cryptic environments and not with roads. The second one seems chunky but unfortunately it didn’t spend as much energy on pigment.
gracias por su video saludos desde costa rica
Winning!!!
Right Francia probably eats frogs, toads' other salamanders and perhaps a fish or two. Because as you said they can get huge and that probably only happens because they eat other things.
Love the vids man keep it up, I wanna see some Oklahoma content✌🏽
I am not into botany but those Pitcher plants?? Were freaking awesome
And yet again, an amazing Herp
I love this stuff I'm in north Georgia and I would love to come out herping with you sometime
I’ve caught around 20 mud snakes in South Carolina and three of them had bright white instead of red where the red is usually. Have you seen any of the white ones?
saving reptiles .. THANKS Noah ! .. 👍
A mud turlaaaa 😂
I could so easily sleep out there with all that chirping going on.
Hoping you could answer a long standing question. Have cottonmouth’s ever been found in the western NC counties that boarder the North Ga. counties? Specifically Clay and Cherokee County NC? Alot of locals say there are but I think they’re seeing Nerodia.
They’re certainly seeing Nerodia. People living outside Cottonmouth range in GA say the same thing, but of course they never have pictures.
Mud snakes are just about my favorite snakes to find.
Curious though. Do you have any pet snakes? I have a boa but my daughter wants something unique and idk what to get her. I don't want like a ball python or a hognose or something everyone has but something she can handle
It's tragic what's happened to the Florida peninsula snake-wise (i realize this was the north of the state, which is more like Georgia's basement.) Perhaps there is no better indicator of this anymore than surfing "herping Florida" and seeing how few snake hunters consider it a destination anymore. The kingsnake situation is especially tragic. The peninsula was hands-down the most interesting region for eastern kings morphologically, such a range in the peninsula intergrades, big snakes and wonderfully variable, and now in many places where they were abundant not long ago they are totally gone. Entire fascinating genepools. Try finding a vid of folks targeting kingsnakes in the peninsula. A handful of folks are finding some nice brooksi way south, but that's it on anything close to a reliable level. But compared to a generation or two ago, very few snakes are found and especially no kings, which used to be one of the premier species of the peninsula. Even the experts who herp areas where there are a few left are hard pressed to come up with one or two in an entire season.
Early squad!
You need to do some Beach Harping
I'm going herping in south FL soon, and I was wondering if you have any recommendations for parks or areas in the Everglades that I should check!
I think Mud Snakes grow around 6 feet and little above
I found my lifer pygmy in vanburan Missouri
I can easily tell the difference between glass lizards and ur average common snake. They both hav different looks in general
Leps are lighter at night. Same with atrox. Always hated it when they’d darken the next day for pics.
That big brown watersnake"s head had sort of a python shape to it, I thought.
Crime pays , but botany doesn't !
Question, how can you tell the difference between a dark cotton mouth and a brown water snake?
Flip🙃
The Night of the Pigmys. 😅😅😅
Are the Mud Snakes in the same genus as the Indigo Snakes? The facial features of that mudder looked like an Indigo IMO
No; muds belong to Farancia and indigos belong to Drymarchon.
Racer: i defeated a human today, it was a glorious battle!
When are you going to go searching for indigos again?
I’m new to the channel. I’m curious is this just a hobby or does he have a background in reptiles? He’s in Florida how is he able to the harmless/venomous one apart. I thought most water snakes were venomous. Thanks
Was the mud turtle shell carved on? Had an X
I noticed that too, not sure if it was carved or just a coincidental injury or shell rot.
Why were only the harmless snakes notated?
Do you ever fossil hunt while out herping? I imagine you encounter fossiliferous formations regularly.
Pygmy is a Favorite
What is up with all those cop cars in the parking lot 😂
I was wondering that myself haha, must have had something going on in town.
Step dad wants to go on the same trip. Where was this at?
Anyone have any ideas about where this might have been?
Just find some florida public land. Try the everglades.
I'm in danger!!!
U good?
Do the pygmy snakes have a rattle
Do they have birth
Bro ,,,,, toooooo soooooon
Titanic ? How Dare You
Haaaaaaaaaaacoughcoughcoughweeeeeeeeeez
Biggest mud snake you’ve seen???
I’ve seen a couple around 5ft but they get larger, the record is almost 7ft.