1 Topic by Sawdey (edited by Sawdey 2011-04-28 01:28 pm)

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Topic: Praire Kings

Well I just bought a home on 5 acres off pleasantview Rd Russellville. I was happy to find a Large female king and a smaller male. I also found a Ring Neck snake and a dekay snake as well as a few different salamanders and skinks a couple lizards. There has been a black racer, friendly lil guy. He chose my shop as his home apparently we always seem to run into each other. I lucked out and got a place with some junk laying around out back. Various lengths of wood and tin. I can just herp in my yard lol. Well take care all I am just all excited about the herps on my property. Prairie King is one of my favs. I only kept the smaller male for now. I usually just take pics these days. big_smile

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Re: Praire Kings

Nice PK!  I've seen ones like that, almost patternless with some striping...pretty cool. Sounds like we need to plan a field trip to  your back yard!

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Re: Praire Kings

Me, vann and glenn found one like that at mt magazine a couple years ago, i think i had to fight it out of a hole.

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Re: Praire Kings

wow thanks for that little lesson, Ive never seen one like it and probably would have ID'd it as some sort of ratsnake

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Re: Praire Kings

Yard herps are always fun. Congrats!

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Re: Praire Kings

looks like he slimed you there.

7 Reply by prof.dave (edited by prof.dave 2011-04-29 02:43 am)

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Re: Praire Kings

Mystic-B wrote:

wow thanks for that little lesson, Ive never seen one like it and probably would have ID'd it as some sort of ratsnake

  I didn't know what they were for many years.  A fellow boy scout caught one when I was 13, and I kept it a while in a cage w/a black rat, and I thought it was some sort of mutant rat snake!(even though it lacked the keeled scales)  I kept on mis-IDing them for years-later as black kings(even though they don't have the L. getula marks on the sides of the neck.)  In 2005, I looked in an Arkansas Snake Guide, and (even though the Prairie King in the guide was strongly marked) I figured it must be the ones I'd been seeing!

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Re: Praire Kings

Nice find! I live next door in Dardanelle. Or outside of Dardanelle anyway. I haven't came across any prairies around here for a while, hoping to see some this year. If you ever run across some good habitat around the Russellville area and wanna go herping, give me a shout!

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