Yes Mother's Day slowed the herping this past weekend for us but we did find a really nice copperhead on our property that we had also found last Fall. My 11 year old took pics so will try and post later. I told him his goal should be to take pics as good as Mike Cravens. Mike, I have always been impressed with your herp pics!

Mike, read your post as I was headed out the door and decided that I would flip a couple of rocks. Under about as many rocks, I saw a very large gravid syspila (28"), an attractive 18" sypila and a racer. This is the time of the gravid females incubating. When we were in Cali, it was interesting how many things we were told we wouldn't see or would, or more generally, how many things were "always the case" and how many of those things we proved wrong. We left thinking, don't these people know their own species behaviors better than this? (even though we did receive great help overall out there)-- Anyway, the point is that we probably do the same thing out of "the season" because instead of testing as constantly as we do in April/May, we write it off as "season ended" and our knowledge base drops back to general and assumptive.

Mike, I might see you at Snake Road on Sunday. Rachel and I are taking her parents who will be visiting from the east coast to Snake Road on Saturday (it will be their first real herping trip and they've never seen a venomous snake in the wild). Provided they like it, we'll probably be back again on Sunday.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew some good sites for herping in Southern Ontario, and what animals to look for at this time of year as I'm still new at this. Thank you!