Finding Snakes in January! First Snakes of 2021, Kingsnake, Rattlesnake, and More!

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3 жыл бұрын

An amazing first snake outing of 2021, followed by an update on the vernal pools! I tried posting this yesterday but for some reason Adobe Premier Pro decided to export 15 minutes of a 21 minute video and I didn't notice until it had been live for an hour, and I wasn't home to fix it. So lets try this again!
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@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын

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@itzcyclops306 3 жыл бұрын

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@joshuahull9982 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@praneeththomas 3 жыл бұрын

Snakes really are intriguing. Your videos are awesome. Can you please add to the traits, how you would recognize what kind of snake it is, like “Harmless” “long red/black striped”?

@nicksantoro868 3 жыл бұрын

Do you need to get a tetanus shot if you get bitten by a non venomous snake?

@joshuahull9982 3 жыл бұрын

@@nicksantoro868 I never did and I've been bitten by too many non venomous snakes to remember. My worst 2 bites were by a 6 foot Burmese python right in the face when I was 16 and then again by a 9 foot Australian carpet python on my forearm back when I was about 30. Both times it 100% my fault because the snakes warned me to leave them alone but I didn't listen. I rubbed alcohol in the bites to prevent infection. That burned like hell. A friend of mine bred snakes and I keep snakes myself but I don't breed them. If you keep or breed snakes you have a high probability of getting bitten sooner or later.

@Qigate 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for suffering the cold ... I very much enjoy these pool walks; especially as they have your commentary. I learn more and more each episode... and I never miss one now.

@Dynotop1a 3 жыл бұрын

It’s nice to see a seemingly clean and trash pollution free collection of pools! Sometimes it feels like you just can’t escape other people’s shitty messes that they leave for you to pick up before wildlife chokes on it.

@kimbrown5496 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, PLEASE keep doing the vernal pool videos! They are super interesting.

@coloraturaElise 3 жыл бұрын

Super-cool that you are so familiar with all the phases of these amphibians and insects, too! I have really been enjoying seeing these clear, shallow vernal pools....this is new to me! I also just read on Wikipedia that there's an artist who gives captive caddis flies gold flakes to build their casing out of, and then he harvests them for art!

@smetlogik 3 жыл бұрын

When you're finding kings in a tree next to the path, you know it's going to be a good day.

@chetchurchill9524 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating is the appropriate word to use while working the vernal pools in Jan.!

@fayre19 3 жыл бұрын

I like seeing the pools, it'll be cool to see everything develope over the next few weeks.

@gordondalrymple7644 4 ай бұрын

Awesome to see the frog, salamander egg masses

@chasejohnson9356 3 жыл бұрын

Baby rat snakes are so beautiful!!! I love the grey and black!!!

@Snake81900 3 жыл бұрын

I don't watch a lot of herping videos during the herping season, but this time of year is when your videos really hit for me. Seeing the kings and canebrakes you find (like that beauty at the 5 min mark) gets me pumped during an otherwise dull time of year. Keep up the vernal content, too!

@ericapruitt6499 3 жыл бұрын

I love your educational videos!! Keep up the good work. I have learned alot from watching.

@taylortyler9995 3 жыл бұрын

Dude you legit got my son more interested in snakes! Thank you so much!

@08HR350z 3 жыл бұрын

Snakes are great got my 1st one at 14, that was 8 years ago still have some ball pythons great reptiles forsure.

@jenn1234 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Noah! I love pool walks that you do and the narration. Sorry you got cold and I hope you don’t get sick, but I love all that stuff in the pools! We get excited about the same stuff as far as that goes. I also hope to hold a snake someday. Since watching KZfaq videos and learning about snakes I am not as afraid and I even safely moved a snake with a net from the car port to the garden this past summer so it wouldn’t get stepped on or killed. I do not know what kind it was, but it was small. Thanks! 😄❤️🐬

@bm510 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah man I would wear flip flops too searching for venomous snakes. Bravo

@shawnpasley4870 3 жыл бұрын

You said December 2nd 2021

@lukeflaugher5334 3 жыл бұрын

I caught that lol

@shawnpasley4870 3 жыл бұрын

@@lukeflaugher5334 lol

@timwhiting6721 3 ай бұрын

Gimme some of that , swamp, swamp, swamp , swamp music

@Bulldog2108 3 жыл бұрын

Loved it! Love the vernal pool actions. I remember loving it last year too! I find it crazy to see so much life, such a diversity of amphibian species in one place! I live in the UK in Wales and when I was younger say around 10 (21 years ago!) Frogs, toads and newts where common. Now I almost never see frogs and only see toads if I am actively out looking for stuff, and I usually see newts alongside the toads. Sad

@Bulldog2108 3 жыл бұрын

ALo I would love to see some turtle action in the spring. Especially spotted turtle action!!

@tallyjbud 3 жыл бұрын

I would have stepped on any one of those, while looking... N.FL in the woods here with pond 200yds away, stream from pond framing my property and I've only seen 2 oak snakes and a racer in the past 4yrs... I know them moccassins must be everywhere!

@veasnayann2034 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the cute snake.

@normamiller1676 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. The vernal pools are fascinating.

@johnkelly50 3 жыл бұрын

Great footage.

@barbarakays3986 3 жыл бұрын

I am always fascinated by your videos. For a young person you really know a lot about reptiles. I enjoy seeing the night videos. Keep them coming!

@sethkinnear7209 3 жыл бұрын

I live in Australia and it is the middle of summer and I go out looking for snakes, I’m pretty envious of you because you happen to find snakes everywhere! And I don’t!!!!! I love your content mate keep it up

@richarddr7690 3 жыл бұрын

Your knowledge of the local herpetofauna is astonishing. Really enjoy the videos, except for the envy of lack of cool herps here in the Netherlands

@lisawatson1186 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! Love these kinds of vids. Love all your work! I'm going to north Georgia feb 11 through 15th to herp with my 8 year old daughter. It would make my day and hers to meet you and herp together. Also, any tips on avoiding stepping on copperheads or cottonmouths? Lol, we plan to look and walk cautiously of course. Anyways, keep this up you are very good!

@Algernon_1337 3 жыл бұрын

Id be happy for more pond videos

@stevenhall8964 3 жыл бұрын

That wasn't just a random tree fall, it was pushed over by a Skunk Ape!

@Rryan8065 3 жыл бұрын

Sh yes, Florida Bigfoot. One night my dad was saying how Bigfoot doesn’t exist bc they are no bones of them. He got pissed and changed the channel to swamp people: serpent invasion. And they were going through the Everglades and he goes “if they run into a skunk ape they are f*cked” after t mins ago saying Bigfoot is fake😂😂😂

@jeffalbillar7625 3 жыл бұрын

He had said that it was eerily quiet as well. I hope this guy has protection.

@em_asmr 3 жыл бұрын

Hi! I am a beginner herper and wondered if you had any tips for catching stuff?

@DNadler1022 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for fixing the video.... love seeing the pools with eggs and new life. Please follow the progress of the salamander eggs. Have you ever been able to find king snake egg clutches or other snake eggs clutches to monitor?

@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the patience! Unfortunately not! I’ve had a few snakes that I’ve watched for a while and noticed they were gravid but never been able to find a nest.

@haroldhahn7044 3 жыл бұрын

Go to a Tractor Supply store and buy a cheap pair of American made, rubber boots, for $20.00, and use them when ever you go herping! The ticks hate their smell! They are better protection than sandles, against thorns and fangs! and you can walk in mud and water, a foot deep, without getting your feet wet! The best thing about them is that they are so cheap that you can always buy another pair as soon as you spring a leak, but only throw out the one that leaks, because unless you always get the leak on the same side, you will end up with a bonus pair, over time.

@Eclecticksagetv 3 жыл бұрын

Yes keep doing these videos i love all your videos they are very dope

@daniellepurtle6563 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos

@sportclay1 3 жыл бұрын

Uncomfortably cold...high here today was 11F.....

@markgurgevich3851 3 жыл бұрын

Great video keep up the good work

@stefanostokatlidis4861 3 жыл бұрын

I love North American box turtles. Also, where do leopard frogs go when the temporary pools dry out?

@Rryan8065 3 жыл бұрын

I could never be a herper like that😅 seeing snakes so often would kill the joy of seeing snakes like black racers and other common snakes

@raymondkaufmann9408 3 жыл бұрын

Happy new year 2021 liked this video alot u got more technical with content which was cool loved that eastern king !!

@magicalmusician8886 3 жыл бұрын

Nice episode

@MrSpock002 3 жыл бұрын

Well done young man. Live in FL Panhandle and am retiring soon. Prepping and training to become naturalist. Am reading, and watching vids and you have taught me much!! Thanks

@PACracks 3 жыл бұрын

Let’s go herping in Savannah ! 🤘🏻😁🤘🏻

@broomstick6164 3 жыл бұрын

Yo I’m gonna be in Savannah mid to late February, I’m tryna find my lifer cotton do you have any advice?

@shmundaboy 3 жыл бұрын

California King snakes are the most beautiful out of all the king snakes.

@jessikaaustin2638 3 жыл бұрын

Wow amazing! How are you able to tell the difference between the cotton mouths and the water snakes without seeing their heads?

@suzanneratliff5523 3 жыл бұрын

There Awesome

@bobstone9560 3 жыл бұрын

Do a video on tiger salamanders 👌👌 thanks

@garysorenson2433 Жыл бұрын

the new Amphibian channel

@spencerbagnaschi4393 3 жыл бұрын

Love the vids

@shawnlarochelle4255 3 жыл бұрын

I LOVE the night walk. Thank you

@LespaulStrat 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video thank you for sharing your knowledge the pools were really cool , the water is so clear , great footage thank you!!

@334outdoors8 3 жыл бұрын

Super cool video I would like to see some beaver pond exploring bc during the early part of the year here in Alabama I spend a fair bit of time in them duck hunting and would like to see what’s in them that I’m not seeing bc I’m looking at the sky

@334outdoors8 3 жыл бұрын

Also I think it would be cool if you mentioned if you where on public or private land in your videos

@daviddavis4394 3 жыл бұрын

What was the temperature that day? I assumed it was pretty chilly and surprised to see active snakes.

@missjo5ie 3 жыл бұрын

Why are banded watersnakes always filled with so much anger 😭 The coiled ratsnake on top of the stump looked straight at the camera like he recognized you!

@travisyoutube456 3 жыл бұрын

Do you herp any vernal pools that contain fairy shrimp? If so I’d like you too film it and maybe do a segment on fairy shrimp. They’re really cool little crustaceans.

@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын

They’re in these pools but I rarely see them for some reason, I’ll try to grab a video of some next time I see them!

@calewarner06 3 жыл бұрын

Love your videos, you are so great educating much appreciated ❤

@baitbustersfishingoutdoors4709 3 жыл бұрын

The worst part of being early is I can’t read the comments while I watch

@nboutdoors3571 3 жыл бұрын

True

@YelsewNesnej 3 жыл бұрын

Doing great! Loving the vids.

@kristineguetschow9134 3 жыл бұрын

Lots of newts. No oldts?

@dillonsneed4803 3 жыл бұрын

You need to hit michigan for the spring. Mad hognoses around the traverse city area.

@VicSWebb 3 жыл бұрын

Keep up the pool work. Thank you.

@annafarmer9334 3 жыл бұрын

I love your videos, makes this old lady want to get out into the woods!! Newts and Salamanders are cool, I like the winter pond content!

@BobFergusonsFascinature 3 жыл бұрын

I’m up here trying to make decent content out of salamanders and birds lol. Headed to Florida soon not only for content, but to save my sanity first.

@Rryan8065 3 жыл бұрын

Hope to see ya!

@aurora_dawn123 3 жыл бұрын

It's so cool seeing all the eggs, and those tadpoles and occasional adult amphibians, I can't wait till they all hatch and to see all the larvae.

@JamesM-pu8sl 3 жыл бұрын

That water snake looked a little too much like a cottonmouth.

@jasonlynch2919 3 жыл бұрын

Man it's so nice watching your vids. Here in ontario it's just white with ice and snow for the next 3 months, so jealous.

@dylanpitz3554 3 жыл бұрын

Is it rare to find a spotted salamander in white planes New York?

@lynndora5046 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t get sick

@frogspert1357 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@Nirky 3 жыл бұрын

Deja Vu

@robbieobobbie1954 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder how many times Noah said "2021"

@davidjohnston1971 3 жыл бұрын

Watching this is like deja vu all over again. This was published last night and is new again tonight.

@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын

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@angiebaggett9223 3 жыл бұрын

YOU ARE NOW ON MEWE AND WIMKIN!! 😍 GOD BLESS YOU!! TELL ALL YOUR FAMILY I SAID HELLO!! 💜

@BAYherping 3 жыл бұрын

ok Noah Fields

@raylowery9466 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Eastern King........nice find...............lol.......right there in front of your face...........

@josephuselton9518 3 жыл бұрын

Do you ever come across king cobras

@eugeniadowdey7208 3 жыл бұрын

I was out herping in my local park and creek and found a clutch of eggs stuck to a rock wat were they, I thought they were salamander eggs

@rockeerockey6941 3 жыл бұрын

Do you guys pick up many ticks in your travels? Great content guys, I enjoy them all

@nataliesreptiles 3 жыл бұрын

If ya make it up to Michigan this summer, let me know.

@lynndora5046 3 жыл бұрын

It’s been snowing all day here 35 or 37 degrees cold cold 🥶

@MyDrillaDrilla 3 жыл бұрын

Drinking game - everytime 2021 is said take a shot

@LespaulStrat 3 жыл бұрын

Lol, right!

@MyDrillaDrilla 3 жыл бұрын

@@LespaulStrat you’d be extremely drunk after the first 3 mins of the video

@turtlemilk2703 3 жыл бұрын

6:43 you said DECEMBER 2nd 2021. It’s January homie. Regardless still beautiful finds. Love your channel.

@jamesscanio4210 3 жыл бұрын

I got very concerned yesterday when I saw you uploaded and went back later to watch it, only to find it had disappeared haha

@macedoniamorales9587 3 жыл бұрын

Hola mm no hablo inglés jajaja pero me gustan los videos

@davidsorensen7438 3 жыл бұрын

What is the coldest you have seen cottonmouths out in ?

@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын

I found one out swimming around at night at 39° hunting frogs one time in South Georgia.

@davidsorensen7438 3 жыл бұрын

@@NKFherping that’s crazy - keep up the videos- love them

@virgildailey1970 3 жыл бұрын

@@NKFherping: My son has a picture of a cottonmouth crawling around on ice in a frozen stream from last winter. Definitely a cottonmouth. Picture is hd clear. Got a good close up. Think they ran across it while deer hunting.

@theyarddogs4100 3 жыл бұрын

OK didn't we just see this video??? Carl

@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын

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@Scharfster 3 жыл бұрын

Deja Vu?

@Dovietail 3 жыл бұрын

What a great day!

@lynndora5046 3 жыл бұрын

We called them fish bait and used them to fish with the worm in the wood

@mingerone 3 жыл бұрын

I'm more into turtles but love these videos whatever you find or not on your adventures. Personally, can't wait for Spring :)

@GwarFluffyGoreGuts 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for getting cold feet for us viewers.

@Sick_Boy_Rick74 3 жыл бұрын

Didn’t I already watch this vid? I swear I saw it yesterday and YT is saying this just came out 42 minutes ago...

@msteele674 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@NKFherping 3 жыл бұрын

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@galeiawilliams7341 3 жыл бұрын

U can monitor alot of species over the next few weeks. Or the rest of youre life, i will b right with u. The salamander eggs was really 😎

@jamesthomas6318 3 жыл бұрын

Cool

@dalzephyrw8212 3 жыл бұрын

I've been watching for awhile but, have you ever hit anywhere in NC? If so, where ?

@trainmaniac5524 3 жыл бұрын

2:16 train horn

@drewmaruna2326 3 жыл бұрын

Drinking game: everytime he says In Situ - DRINK!

@jasonirelan4487 3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't it suck to go looking for snakes and having the first one be a look but don't touch one?

@Traybair 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting... The viridescens shown at timestamp 17:00 has more variation in the yaw of it's swimming pattern than we typically see in this species. I would be quite interested in observing this behavior in person. You can contact me at anytime. Thanks

@paherpingoutdoors4528 3 жыл бұрын

Ey do u own any snakes

@chefjimmie1 2 жыл бұрын

You’re going to have to get used to saying “2021”??? How’s about it’s now 02/22/2022?

@cathyn3391 3 жыл бұрын

I always laugh when you write (Harmless) to describe the non-venomous snakes you find. The first parenthesis looks like a C, so it looks as though you've written "Charmless". Harsh!

@carschmn 3 жыл бұрын

They also don’t agree at being harmless.

@cathyn3391 3 жыл бұрын

@@carschmn For sure that would be the bigger insult to them.

@Rryan8065 3 жыл бұрын

I do that too!