FINDING TONS OF SNAKES! (the best time of the year to find them)

[@loriw2661]

I’m so happy I started watching reptile keepers on U-Tube. Up until 3-4 years ago I was wary of snakes. Now, at the age of 61, I have two Ball Pythons and regularly stop my neighbors from harming our gorgeous Black Racers and other Florida snakes. One day I’d love to have a Rhino Iguana! Thanks Dāv!! 🐍❤️🐍

[@cara9648]

Baby reptiles are my favorite animals ever. They're so adorable and precious!

[@lizziesmusicmaking]

I love baby reptiles too.

[@ForestExotics]

Garder snake musk "I live that smell" LOL 😆

[@lizardsofozz]

Gartier Müsk by Dāv "The scent of the wild"

[@kaylaroach]

Underrated comment 😂

[@lalithmathotage]

Will he at attack our dogs

[@KeystrokePOSSoftware]

LMAO at "I absolutely love garter snake musk and want to bottle it up for herpers...". Holy shit - still literally laughing out loud.

[@nonabaumgardner4433]

Any time you find a snake when herping is an awesome herp trip so your trip was MEGA AWESOME❣️❣️❣️ Seeing how big the babies of the bull snakes are makes me want to add them to our collection 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for sharing 🥰

[@deebz22]

When I was 6 in the reservation in NJ i fell in a pile of leaves and hundreds of garter snakes came out. It was like the scene in Temple of Doom.. I thought it was the best thing. Now im like Indiana Jones. My mom p*ssed her pants screamed and called the cops

[@fireinateacup89]

She called the cops...on NATURE??

[@deebz22]

@@fireinateacup89 she called the cop on me when I brought my first pair of rattlesnakes home

[@nilankumarage9589]

@@deebz22 that’s hilarious, mum lost it when I got my first coastal taipan 😂will never forget her face when I told her

[@jeremystone36]

@@deebz22 absolutely 🧢

[@Vitali_Osandor]

My favourite kind of reptile video! Thank you.

[@amazonico]

Thanks for helping that turtle cross the road mann thats awesome, I live in Amazon rainforest and am indigenous descendant, I see that you too is a true nature friend! Wish everybody were like that. Love you videos about snakes, got another subscriber 🙏🐊

[@sierrasicard4593]

That baby Blandings turtle is adorable!!! I love Blandings, we have a few small areas in northern NY that have more concentrated populations of them. Definitely a great species to do field studies on!

[@raschan6911]

Uncle Kaufman save the day yaaay.

[@6strings735]

Very interesting! Thanks for showing us West Coast folks some real prairie habitat and prairie herps.

[@lizdyson3627]

Go Dav. That blandings turtle is soooo cute. As usual you are in the right place at the right time. being your usual compassionate self.🤘

[@georgiaaltic2965]

I never really thought to look in the fall. I will have to and look. It was awesome to meet you today!

[@LanceKirkman]

Thank you Dav! What a fun adventure! Thank you for sharing with us! #RattleOn

[@shaneyoung0557]

This was an awesome video Dav! Great representation of herping in our great state of Minnesota!

[@Ochibason]

What great finds Dav! Native Minnesotan big outdoorsman and herper my whole life and never seen heard this angle on our reptiles and what they really do in the fall. Looking back going out in the field pheasant hunting yeah tons of critters in the praries and woods too while grouse hunting and herping lol. Never seen a red belly before! Baby Blandings adorable wow seen two over the years adults. Great stuff Dav! Thank you!

[@BrianGundy]

What a great day! I too love the scent of garter snake musk. Thanks for sharing Dav.

[@eeveegirl1334]

Love the attitude on the baby bull at 3:49 so much and now want a bully of my own with a similar 'tude in the near future when i have a house to expand my snake collection.

[@stevebrugman3145]

Absolutely love everyone of your Minnesota field trips keep it up thank you

[@brianorr308]

Fun fact, when the snakes return to the hibernaculum spots in the fall, they are not looking for food at all. They are sunning themselves to clear out their intestines of any food before they go down for winter. They might spend a month or so without eating before they start brumating. Some young of the year if born late may not even get a meal before they go down - showing the incredible survivability of many snakes. Sorry to contradict you Dave, but snakes with food in their intestines still when they go to brumate can go septic and die if they were not cleared out before hand and so a month before going down, there is no way they will be on the prairie trying to find food still at the end of September. Even captive garters and other northern colubrids will often go off food near the end of August to mid september. Herping in the fall is still rad though and something everyone should do to find lots of cool snakes on the move or resting in the sun.

[@WarfelsMorphs]

Great video Dāv! I always love seeing snakes and turtles in the wild. I haven’t found a wild baby turtle like 15 years I bet. Keep up the awesome work my friend!

[@Erica-PlaneSnakes]

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly they can move!

[@BradT_Herping]

It is indubitably illegal for a Herper to find a board and not flip it hahaha good call! Love the herping videos!

[@heavenleigh3344]

So glad to see this. Sadly Montana has had a huge reptile and amphibian die off.

[@Keonyte]

I'm from central MN and was out a few days ago! Found a few garters and some blue spotted salamanders! Love it!

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

Very nice herping and this large garter and the hatchling Blanding’s turtle were unique. This migration may be unique to North America. Minnesota has a lot of diversity. Compared to the same latitude in Europe, it has many more species, despite being colder.

[@carschmn]

Cool to see a blandings turtle. I’m used to seeing the turtle crossing signs in the cities but have never seen one.

[@leesreptilesandaquatics6368]

I'm in Pennsylvania and fall here is also the best time of year to go out and find snake on the trails. it's really cool to see what snakes you can find out on the paths

[@nataliesreptileroom3348]

Beautiful finds!

[@lalithmathotage]

Now one in our garden.❤

[@jeffreycarlson9797]

Dave great video! Now those look like ribbon snakes to me? Am I wrong?

[@odakotarose]

I was wondering if those bullsnakes knew what they were too 😂 the first and last ones were so chill, just like 'oh okay i guess i'm on a warm tree now. cool'

[@kristinmontague9084]

Hey Dāv, I live in MN....I do find 🐍 pretty close to the Minnesota River at times in the rocks.....is there a certain Valley you go helping at? Or just any Valley, my son and I are going helping tomorrow, Sunday.

[@ronhalpin9450]

Hi Dav, Keep up the good work this was another cool video for sure. I was just watching one of your videos where you were night cruising for snakes in Fla. I will be flying into Miami to look for lizards and snakes to photograph. Can you suggest some roads to night cruise within a few hours drive from Miami? We will be staying in Miami for a week. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,Ron

[@fireinateacup89]

That turtle has a super long tail!

[@fireinateacup89]

I just love how spicy Bullsnakes are! It seems like they mimic the strike posture of rattlesnakes and the hood of cobras. Is that correct?

[@hunterschmidt7064]

Hey dav a fellow minnesotan here. I'm wondering what Praries you have luck helping at. I never seem to have any luck. I just got into photography

[@rebeccafriend4854]

Love it! Rattle on!

[@ggoannas]

I never realized why I saw so many snakes at this time of year (I’m in France). Thanks.

[@surfpanther]

Oh my God this is such a cool video, sorry to blow up the comments but if you could see some of the Garter snakes that I catch in michigan, I get them red I get them blue I get them Orange all kinds of crazy colors. I'm in Arizona now but I go back and forth from Arizona and michigan, I could take you on some of the best turtle and snake hunts in the state of Michigan

[@tonycortina4624]

Thanks for this. I’ve been keeping snakes since 1980. From Pennsylvania to NY, Florida and now Las Vegas. I was walking in Oregon 3 weeks ago and found a 12-13 inches long Great Basin Gopher. First Gopher snake for me. She has been eating Pinkies and is doing great. Went home to Las Vegas and set up a 75 gallon tank and she is so playful and loves to come to the front and climb and be held and goes outside and crawls around. I will head back out now and look in the higher grounds here in Red Rock canyon. Or maybe Utah since it’s getting cooler. I will start raising Gopher snakes. I’ll wait a few years. But definitely staying with Great Basin or Sonoran Gophers. Like to find a more Reddish color in the next one. I will learn more about these Gopher snakes. From King Snakes in Florida Milk snakes, corn snakes and pythons in my life? I am fascinated by Bull and Gopher snakes🐍

[@dldarby82]

How is it that a wild bull snake that you found in Minnesota, is more chill and well-behaved then any hatchling bull snake I've seen Ed and Emily handle on their channel?

[@RossJ316JC]

🙂👍👍 Good stuff. Your hands were smelling real good after the garter snakes🤢 wish they didn't smell so bad they are cool snakes, I grew up by a offshoot of the rogue river with tons of them.

[@commercialelectrician133]

Great video

[@glockinshpiel]

“Gooooo GOPHERS!!” I am a Minnesotan too and I always got frustrated that all I could find is garter snakes!!! My grandpa had them everywhere on his land in Alexandria. Some of them are huge. I’m more recent years I could only find them in the spring when they come out of brumation. But garters musk is just so gnarly I can’t imagine picking them up again.

[@spencersteffen7882]

Man that garter snake musk is unbelievably rancid

[@yenerm114]

🤘🤘

[@srford50]

How many young herpers will smell the musk from their first garter snake catch and think Dave is crazy.

[@bdog4u2]

I got a monster Garter snake that lives in my backyard. I cut it out of a fishing net 2 years ago. I found him in someone's boat caught in a casting net. I brought it home and spent several hours cutting it out. Never tried biting me and even drank water from a bottle. My yard is loaded with frogs and I mean loaded so after releasing it out back it never left.

[@fireinateacup89]

What is the evolutionary purpose of the bicolored tongue in Garter Snakes?

[@guy8646]

Why do Blanding’s turtles lay their eggs so far from water?

[@calewarner06]

Please tell me your joking on garter snake musk lol

[@JrFreak300]

walk thru the weeds like that here in PA you'd go home with about 100 ticks on you

[@ohhowfuckingoriginal]

I'm sure he is wearing something to prevent those. Plenty of ticks in Minnesota

[@slitheryserpents]

💜💚🥰💚💜

[@surfpanther]

Last summer in West Michigan was absolutely insane for catching snakes, I caught more in one summer than I did the past 5 years. Literally caught hundreds of snakes, hog nose, garter snakes, water snakes, rescued some painted turtle eggs and hatched them with my chameleons, caught some rat snakes caught some corn snakes, and three of the notorious blue racers, like big blue racers LOL 6 ft Plus. Do they have Blu-rays. Do they have blue racers in minnesota? That is by far my favorite snake that is not a python or boa constrictor LOL. I can't believe you found a baby blandings turtle, I have been catching those things my entire life and I've never once seen a baby

[@davkaufmansreptileadventures]

Damn. I'm coming there next year! And yes we do!

[@surfpanther]

@@davkaufmansreptileadventures dude the blandings turtle, you lucky sucker

[@matthewpraayjr.9797]

@@davkaufmansreptileadventures oh cool I met you at tinley I live in grand haven Michigan right on the lake

[@jmdenison]

Boy the second one was pretty darn sassy. He wasn't going to take anything off of you

[@ffxfgxsfxxxg2419]

I really do want to see snakes in my area especially since my interest in owning snakes came from a wild snake in my area who after I accidentally stepped on it didn’t attack me, hissed and simply slithered away minding its own damn business. I had always assumed that snakes were terrifying monsters that were out to get me and it could have bit me since I was not wearing boots or anything to protect my feet really but it chose not to and simply got out of the way

[@tanakeilidh384]

Why wouldn't the ants swarm all over and eat the hibernating snakes in their mound?

[@Trails_trout]

that garter snake is a male

[@turtlesxdrugsxtang]

I was in Bimidji for a week and then Duluth for a week 08/21-09/21, what an absolute beautiful state. I’m a rattler til the end! The educational value of your content is priceless your personality is second to none. I just want to say thank you!

[@sauce1232]

Fargo S1 cities!!!

[@whofarted9376]

Minnesota has some nice bullsnakes.