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

[@NKFherping]

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[@itzcyclops306]

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[@joshuahull9982]

Awesome video!

[@praneeththomas]

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]

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

[@joshuahull9982]

@@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]

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]

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]

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

[@smetlogik]

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

[@fayre19]

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

[@taylortyler999]

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

[@08HR350z]

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

[@barbarakays3986]

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!

[@Snake81900]

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!

[@MrSpock002]

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

[@coloraturaElise]

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!

[@jenn1234]

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 KZbin 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! 😄❤️🐬

[@normamiller1676]

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

[@aurora_dawn123]

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.

[@chetchurchill9524]

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

[@sethkinnear7209]

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

[@Bulldog2108]

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]

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

[@annafarmer9334]

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!

[@chasejohnson9356]

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

[@ericapruitt6499]

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

[@LespaulStrat]

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

[@PACracks]

Let’s go herping in Savannah ! 🤘🏻😁🤘🏻

[@raymondkaufmann9408]

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

[@shawnlarochelle4255]

I LOVE the night walk. Thank you

[@richarddr7690]

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]

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!

[@jasonlynch2919]

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.

[@Rryan8065]

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

[@angiebaggett9223]

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

[@YelsewNesnej]

Doing great! Loving the vids.

[@DNadler1022]

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]

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.

[@tallyjbud]

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!

[@calewarner06]

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

[@em_asmr]

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

[@bm510]

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

[@dillonsneed4803]

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

[@davidjohnston1971]

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

[@NKFherping]

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[@stevenhall8964]

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

[@Rryan8065]

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]

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

[@mingerone]

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

[@gordondalrymple7644]

Awesome to see the frog, salamander egg masses

[@rockeerockey6941]

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

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

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

[@jessikaaustin2638]

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

[@markgurgevich3851]

Great video keep up the good work

[@334outdoors8]

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]

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

[@johnkelly50]

Great footage.

[@jamesscanio4210]

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

[@daviddavis4394]

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

[@missjo5ie]

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!

[@raylowery9466]

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

[@travisyoutube456]

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]

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!

[@daniellepurtle6563]

Love your videos

[@nataliesreptiles]

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

[@eugeniadowdey7208]

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

[@veasnayann2034]

Thank you for the cute snake.

[@magicalmusician8886]

Nice episode

[@Dovietail]

What a great day!

[@sportclay1]

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

[@davidsorensen7438]

What is the coldest you have seen cottonmouths out in ?

[@NKFherping]

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

[@davidsorensen7438]

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

[@virgildailey1970]

@@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.

[@lynndora5046]

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

[@Algernon_1337]

Id be happy for more pond videos

[@shawnpasley4870]

You said December 2nd 2021

[@lukeflaugher5334]

I caught that lol

[@shawnpasley4870]

@@lukeflaugher5334 lol

[@dylanpitz3554]

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

[@frogspert1357]

Awesome

[@galeiawilliams7341]

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 😎

[@baitbustersfishingoutdoors4709]

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

[@nboutdoors3571]

True

[@dalzephyrw8212]

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

[@josephuselton9518]

Do you ever come across king cobras

[@kristineguetschow9134]

Lots of newts. No oldts?

[@garysorenson2433]

the new Amphibian channel

[@bobstone9560]

Do a video on tiger salamanders 👌👌 thanks

[@Traybair]

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

[@spencerbagnaschi4393]

Love the vids

[@haroldhahn7044]

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.

[@jasonirelan4487]

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

[@BobFergusonsFascinature]

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]

Hope to see ya!

[@shmundaboy]

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

[@timwhiting6721]

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

[@turtlemilk2703]

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

[@GwarFluffyGoreGuts]

Thanks for getting cold feet for us viewers.

[@paherpingoutdoors4528]

Ey do u own any snakes

[@trainmaniac5524]

2:16 train horn

[@suzanneratliff5523]

There Awesome

[@robbieobobbie1954]

I wonder how many times Noah said "2021"

[@jasonwebb1882]

Tried to watch yesterday and said it was a private video. I guess you had to pull it down. IDK??? Anyway keep up the great videos.

[@NKFherping]

Read the description, appreciate the support!

[@lynndora5046]

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

[@jessicarabbit381]

seeing all those snakes (esp the cotton mouths) and all those toes out in sandals gave me stomach cramps 😲😩😩

[@bvbojn]

Drinking game - everytime 2021 is said take a shot

[@LespaulStrat]

Lol, right!

[@bvbojn]

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

[@karlelliott9254]

Come on Noah, dress for the environment and stay comfortable. The Old Winter Night Hunter.

[@Sick_Boy_Rick74]

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]

Same

[@NKFherping]

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[@michaelalvarez7830]

You have to road cruise in main park road in the Everglades and shine for chameleons that would be my favorite vid ever, I’m actually going again March 8th

[@jamesthomas6318]

Cool

[@JamesM-pu8sl]

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

[@drewmaruna2326]

Drinking game: everytime he says In Situ - DRINK!

[@sevakbagdasaryan7529]

8:42

[@Nirky]

Deja Vu

[@sevakbagdasaryan7529]

16:40

[@theyarddogs4100]

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

[@NKFherping]

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[@lexibutkovich175]

Wait wasn’t this uploaded yesterday?

[@FireoftheGreeks]

The ending was cut off yesterday.

[@NKFherping]

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[@BAYherping]

ok Noah Fields