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    Yard Garters

    August 27, 2025 / 6 Comments

    A few weeks after we moved into our home in June of 2000, there was a tremendous rainstorm that flooded the streets and left standing water everywhere. Walking out the…

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  • Field Herping

    Once more, unto the breach…

    August 27, 2025 / 5 Comments

    …”dear friends, once more…” I haven’t posted here since the second week of January in 2022, which was also the week I received my first Covid vaccination. You would think…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    The Fell Swoop Loop, Part 2

    January 11, 2022 / 2 Comments

    It’s a bit of a drive but we made from the ocean to the desert in time to get in some road-cruising after dark. There’s one quiet road that I…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    The Fell Swoop Loop, Part 1

    January 9, 2022 / 2 Comments

    It started in Las Vegas, as many stories do, and really, there were several significant loops made during this journey. I went through the PITA hoops to secure a rental…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping: Paraguay Part 2

    December 28, 2021 / 2 Comments

    One morning we stopped in at a local animal shelter near Filadelfia and it proved to be quite an interesting experience. Jake and Dermot made a new friend – a…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping: Paraguay Part 1

    December 28, 2021 / 3 Comments

    NOTE: “Hot Stove Herping’ is a phrase I coined years ago, for use in end-of-year posts on the old Field Herp Forum. I stole it from baseball; members of the…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping 2021: Salabama

    December 24, 2021 / 2 Comments

    Note: ‘Hot Stove Herping’ is a phrase I coined years ago, for use in end-of-year posts on the old Field Herp Forum. I stole it from baseball; members of the…

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  • Hot Stove Herping

    Hot Stove Herping: Flipping the South

    December 23, 2021 / 10 Comments

    NOTE: “Hot Stove Herping’ is a phrase I coined years ago, for use in end-of-year posts on the old Field Herp Forum. I stole it from baseball; members of the…

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  • Field Herping

    Snake Road After Dark

    December 13, 2021 / 4 Comments

    Spring, summer or fall, it doesn’t matter – when the sun sets on the far side of the Mississippi, amphibians and reptiles are out and about in the La Rue-Pine…

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  • Field Herping

    Boardwalking

    December 6, 2021 / 2 Comments

    There are many ways to discover amphibians and reptiles – you can road-cruise for them, flip rocks and logs and trash, or even just walk them up. But if you…

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