Insane Texas Snake Hunting! Indigos, Giant Toad, and Milksnakes Under Tin!

[@NKFherping]

Kyle’s POV: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXjRfZtnZp6aq9Usi=x7BESnW6DXIrvKep

[@bigpapaplantman5126]

Not only are these guys helping the environment through documenting encounters, they are also increasing the knowledge of what biologists thought the maximum geographical range was of these animals. Good job with the conservation guys

[@zambimaru]

Good to know Indigos are doing well there.

[@TheIndigoEclipse]

I love Indigos. Such big chonky snakes that are fairly friendly. They have such big beautiful iridescent black scales. I wish they weren't endangered in GA. I'd love to see one in person.

[@lgull1]

prettiest ones are the Florida Indigo's. pure Black. very cool. they are huge snakes maybe the same in Georgia

[@PhilipLongee-vw8jf]

Herping (just the act of gathering and handling) would be illegal with Eastern Indigos. They could be fined $25k for it. Texas Indy’s ok.

[@thetop3284]

@@PhilipLongee-vw8jfyup

[@kd8199]

Caught one as a kid. It was the biggest wild snake I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. It’s was docile and didn’t mind being handled. Never tried to bite even once.

[@kd8199]

@@lgull1- caught one in Indiantown FL. It was so black it was iridescent.

[@scottuzarowski3629]

What a killer trip!! Double Milk flip & stacking Indigo's like they were Racers!! I gotta say Milks are awesome, but something about a big gentle Indigo just really takes the cake!!

[@Spacey7]

Those Indigo Snakes have massive scales, very beautiful snakes 🐍💞🐍

[@Richard_and_Heather]

Man, Kyle leap frogged that cactus like nobody's business. Noah and Kyle herping teamed up is a recipe for INSANE success. This is one of my favorite videos I've seen in a minute. Yall are straight bosses of the herp world. That indigo looked like it busted a huge amount of jizz on your shirt 😂. Thank you for all you do and the amazing footage you bring to us subscribers. Catch you on the flip-side Noah. Richard from Arkansas

[@chetchurchill9524]

Ditto, Richard. Noah is def the G.O.A.T. KZbin Herper in all the world! With Kyle and company at his side in south Texas . . . Who else could have seen/caught 7 Indigos in one trip!! Insanely Unbelievable! Utterly Incredible!!! After searching hours for indigos in south Texas I was only able to capture one . . . near Falcon Dam back in the late ‘70’s. Came close in hot pursuit of individuals outside Falfurrias , Mission and Rio Grande City.

[@Richard_and_Heather]

@@chetchurchill9524 They definitely put in time scouting location and with all that artificial cover Kyle lays down its just a recipe for success. I'm always impressed/jealous (lol) to watch all the the amazing snakes they find. I hope you are having a great day. Catch you on the flip-side. Richard from Arkansas

[@chetchurchill9524]

98 Texas Indigos for Clint! Whaaaatt!! Congrats guys on the Coniophanes!

[@willd639]

Wow. Those milks are gorgeous!

[@jenn1234]

Wow Noah! What an awesome trip you had! I am thrilled that it went this well. I am so glad you got to see some beautiful milk snakes and all of the other many snakes were an amazing bonus. Those indigo’s were so chunky and easy going. The jump by Kyle over the cactus was epic, to say the least. What a way to bring in 2024 for us! Stay safe and healthy and I look forward to whatever comes next!!! 😄💙🐬🐊🐍🫶🏼

[@chetchurchill9524]

The double flip of patch noses was awesome. Still (over 4 decades) . . . one of my very favorite snake species!

[@chetchurchill9524]

One of the best single day videos I have ever seen by KZbin herpers!!

[@fredachildress3728]

I just found your channel, and thank you for showing snakes located in my home state of Texas. I'm originally from Tyler but I now live in Dallas. I had no idea that we have such gorgeous snakes, fantastic!!😊😊❤❤

[@Coltbreath]

So Glad the Indigo was the most common snake!

[@chetchurchill9524]

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

[@heatherlandskron]

great video!! hi guys! have a good day and week. I hope all is well.

[@cnnroutside]

Beautiful Indigos!

[@caughtafaygo]

7 indigos i gotta watch this!! Love drymarchon!! 🤘❤️❤️🐍

[@donprater2754]

Best video yet supper nice!

[@smetlogik]

Sheesh. Is there anything you guys didn't find? It was raining Indigos and milks. And that FOOD? I'm booking a Pop Milk trip.

[@redsftw10]

I love these videos!

[@chetchurchill9524]

Amen.

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Annulata=Gods favorite Milk. Great Job Guys. That is one fertile area. Healthy and multiple specimens of multi species 👍🏻

[@herpetologywithjon]

This one is absolutely insane

[@chetchurchill9524]

Ditto!

[@shannonlong6640]

You should do a herping trip to Mexico or Central America, Noah. 🇲🇽🐍🦎🐸

[@JustinMichels]

EPIC

[@casualobserver77]

I live in FL where keeping an Eastern Indigo snake is nearly impossible to do legally. So i bought a hatchling Texas indigo back in 2005. I sold her in 2010 and I've missed that animal ever since. Such amazing critters! Great video Noah

[@ronnstone7023]

Nice video. I live in the Houston area and was pleased to see all the snakes you guys turned up along the coast and in south Texas.

[@brianfeeley6140]

What a trip and video... a little bit of everything including getting pooped and peed on! Those big indigo's and their big handsome heads remind me of black cobras! Oh, and the double-milk flip was epic! Cheers!

[@chetchurchill9524]

Amen Bri!

[@chetchurchill9524]

Congratulations on the double flip annulata, Noah!! Clint and Kyle are the bomb for sure when it comes to Texas milks. I believe you are the bomb with respect to milks in Dixie and Will in the northeast.

[@ABCHerping82]

Great video! Love your content NFK:)

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

Nice Texas indigos, Lampropeltis, ratsnakes and others. The numbers of animals were also phenomenal. I didn’t expect indigo snakes to be so calm. Something equivalent in the Old World would give you a very hard time. Generally North American snakes seem calm.

[@tkreitler]

This not only had some fantastic herps, it was also very entertaining to watch. I look forward to the next one. PS- 7 indigos in a single day is ridiculous.

[@chetchurchill9524]

Ridiculous indeed!!! Ridiculously insane, incredible and indubitably unbelievable!!

[@bdherpetologyproductions1084]

That Indigo gave you that money shot

[@JessiJHall]

Blue Indigos are my favorite of all snake's ❤

[@mr.perfect1er]

Man, I'd love a pair of those Indigos!

[@chetchurchill9524]

I appreciate you’re staying so current on the scientific names, Noah. As I’ve shared with you several times over the last several years, I hope you are collaborating with professional herpetologists (particularly those specializing in geographic variation, taxonomy and and ecology/natural history. It would be a pity and a crime if the professionals weren’t learning the wealth of knowledge you and your allies are doing for herpetology. Kudos to Will for having started his formal research into Terrapene c. Carolina and Chris Leone with the snakes and turtles of south Jersey and the Pine Barrens.

[@nepaleseman1010]

For me the Indigo is the ultimate snake that you can find in the USA, way above any other snake part from the Eastern Indigo. Its really reassuring to see that the Texas Indigo is quite common, at least I the area where you guys are flipping.

[@marcosavila1204]

Awesome Snakes all off them are awesome finds

[@tomtorres7093]

I was super excited to see that you were down here in the thornscrub!! Yall were nearby!! Woulda been awesome to bump into yall here in my neck of the woods!!

[@jailbreakoverlander]

Ah this was August not now. o id probably waste time looking now in that area.

[@OrionsMako]

Noah can sure spot em out on the crawl.

[@mattmatthew2440]

Its nice to see indigos,when i was a kid i saw a indigo snake that was about ten feet or more in lenght, very fat too like it was eating rabbits.Ive never seen one again that big ever since all the development here in florida.

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

Beautiful snakes , something how some really don’t bite. Enjoyed watching 👍👌

[@ThePollaton]

Wow

[@jailbreakoverlander]

What part of TX are you hunting? at this time of year?

[@chetchurchill9524]

Extreme south TX in the lower Rio Grande valley.

[@sharonrigs7999]

I love Indigos!

[@jayjohnson9668]

I am heading down to the Okefenokee area this week end with my daughter to do some herping. Last time we were down found 4 indigos and plenty of other cool stuff. Cant wait!😎

[@absolutjackal]

The indigos are such thicc snakes; maybe it’s how blocky the head looks but they seem even bigger than that huge diamondback you found. The only ones I like more that you find are eastern coachwips; something about the coloration and pattern is so cool. And how long they are.

[@KimGossett-h3r]

We had a picket fence at my grandparents house. Every morning rabbits & birds were out then they all ran & here come the blue indigo winding thru the pickets ea morning going west. In the afternoon sane thing going back east.

[@zzzzbumm4608]

Stopped everything I was doing when I saw the number 7 and indigo

[@chetchurchill9524]

Amen! Ditto!!

[@filippozauc]

Those indigos look a lot like king cobra, that's amazing!

[@randallstephens78]

All the indigo snakes I’ve ever seen were black with red nose maybe so this is a treat for me too thanks guys appreciate it !

[@clovistblowpop3060]

This may have been the most amazing tin flipping I've ever seen. I have never seen so many indigo's in my life. Keep this place top secret, guard it with your life. Also, the mild snakes.... Are you kidding me! Great video as always. My friend & I used to help when we were younger & now that I can't find anywhere to go, this really is exciting to an old fella. Found a baby eastern king recently in my neighborhood, I was so excited! That being said, thank you for doing this. I'm living vicariously through your videos 😂

[@LuvBluSkyz]

Great video. I am in the Houston area and never see many of those snakes. Would like to see a video on the invasive non-native herps. Maybe you can fit one in sometime even though you are a serious herpetologist.

[@chetchurchill9524]

Wow; no wonder Clint is your point man at the lead. How he managed to detect Indigos 3 & 4 before they slithered away us beyond me. Kudos guys. That high grass is prime indigo habitat. 7 indigos and 0 atrox!! Bizarrely Amazing!!!

[@chetchurchill9524]

3 & 5

[@ke11ey1]

All of you geeking out over the double flip milks. Everyone immediately whipped out your phones to get documentation-proof😂

[@bgrritchiet]

Happy New Year. You had a fantastic day catching Indigo’s, Milks, along with the other snake species you found. The first Indigo with all the red on its belly looked like a Mexican Red-tailed Indigo. The owner of Black Pearl Reptiles in California breeds the Mexican Red-tailed Indigo and he wants $ 2000 for yearlings he is selling.😱Awesome video.👍

[@Crotalus_cerastes]

Excluding the couple DORs, annulata is the last milk I need.

[@geneyarnall3736]

Awesome Snakes! Explains we hy you aren’t seeing and rattlesnakes

[@JEREMIELEE]

👍👍

[@cbrooksusmc]

@13:02 we learn that snakes can also squirt and with that answers the age old question, it’s pee :(

[@barryrahn5957]

I kept hoping you'd find some Diamondbacks. I know Texas is rich with D backs

[@jimwhite7607]

Where in south Texas close to Corpus Christi ?

[@chetchurchill9524]

No; south - southwest

[@garnerthecube]

I have consumed a large marshmallow.

[@NKFherping]

hell yeah

[@garnerthecube]

@@NKFherping it was good

[@ke11ey1]

That giant toad really looks like a big engorged tick

[@Spacey7]

Hi. That was an awesome video. Can you tell me how you can tell if a snake is ovulating please? I only know the breeding time of year with mine. I rescue reptiles here in the uk. 🐍💞🐍

[@houstonherper]

You should do a video herping in south east texas around houston

[@Snoopyfan2023]

NKF herping I love your videos What is your favorite find of all time

[@thehoop74]

Indigos are so beautiful!!!!!! I didn't think you could touch them unless you were in that society for research. They kinda look like an UN mad not hooded cobra.

[@daveco1270]

Those indigo snakes get big. Very cool. Some of them remind me of cobras (minus the hood) for some reason. Maybe it's the size and the thick neck leading to the head.

[@4202cvinc]

Worst part of herp south Texas, were the ticks. We dusted our pants and legs with Sulphur and STILL had to stand in front of a mirror and check for ticks.

[@mikedickerson521]

1st time viewing your channel! I live in Jax, FL we have king snakes that look like the milk snake you caught. Are they the same just different names? Thanks Again great video!

[@masterbuilderproductions]

Did anyone else see that little scorpion crawling on the tin at 1:28?

[@jimicrack29]

wish worked with you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@KimGossett-h3r]

All those indigos is why you didn't run in to a huge rattler in that tall grass I assume.

[@jataun1978RoTex]

Do y’all ever do trips? My daughter loves it but I’m not 100% snake ready

[@reptilianwild]

Is a thornscrub rat different from a great plains rat? Is it a new name or something?

[@NKFherping]

It’s a formerly recognized subspecies of Great Plains Rat

[@reptilianwild]

@@NKFherping Interesting

[@owenjackson2390]

I've always wondered what the large black beetles are under the tin with the sankes. They don't look like cockroaches. So what are they?

[@davidsorensen7438]

Love that video Noah - question on the indigos don’t they have a really blue looking one in Texas too? Are they different?

[@chetchurchill9524]

Not really Dave; those are largely in FL.

[@jayhayes5924]

Is there anything we can do to help introduce these back to Alabama? I think we still have them in south Alabama but not in the central part? Are they rare because of the lack of tortoise's? I think they live in tortoise holes, but seems like they could find other places to live. I'd just love to have them around here again.

[@joshuahull9982]

I have a female cane toad that size but I bought mine at a pet shop.

[@KimGossett-h3r]

Chilipitins!!

[@charlesschulz8416]

Where iam close to river we have common eastern brown snakes and tiger snakes both venomous.If you head up north of southaustralia into desert country you might be lucky run into the inland tiapan they are a shy snake with a deadly bite

[@PaintedTurtle001]

Sweet video! Are Texas indigos protected?

[@NKFherping]

They were historically, but their population is stable and they’re afforded no specific protection anymore.

[@chetchurchill9524]

Wow, Noah. I know I’ve been out of herpetology for a number of years. But I never would have seen the day that Texas Indigos are not protected!! Very Good News!

[@gordondalrymple7644]

If there’s rodents under the tin ,you know theres no snakes

[@timwhiting6721]

Lophophora , huh ? What bufo the sonoran desert toad ?

[@njm-hz8rq]

Too bad you don't have a rehab place there for injured or disabled critters. The snake that was skinny and cross eyed I feel so sad for it. 😟

[@billchambers5348]

Man hope to see a Texas indigo some day! 7 would make my year!

[@chetchurchill9524]

Right there with you, Bill! Hunted several counties in south TX over the decades and only able to capture one first hand (in Zapata County).

[@billchambers5348]

@@chetchurchill9524 I will be down Raymondville this coming June for a few days, maybe I will luck into one. Couple years ago driving down the Everglades park road there was an eastern indigo laying in the road sunning. I think I might have use up my snake luck for many years after that sighting, lol

[@Ekzotika-g8w]

Idc how common Texas indigos may be they’re 10x cooler than milk snakes.

[@Sushi2735]

I wonder if they are interested in you at all, or just looking for a face to chomp??? Some actually seem to look at what / who you are!!

[@KimGossett-h3r]

Red & Black Friend of Jack!

[@vincentwilkes9611]

"News printing"?

[@dartmart9263]

“Just be careful not to step on them” Then he immediately goes on to jump right on top of the corrugated metal and, potentially, on some herps. Great job! At least he didn’t scream like a little girl then. He saved that pleasure for later, when they got their double find. Oh goodie.

[@mattgrimmett6067]

NSFW 13:02

[@LittleLambsCrochet]

Why are you all so loud and rough? It looks like the snakes are terrified. Be kind.

[@NKFherping]

Snakes don’t have ears, you’re anthropomorphizing. If you really want to complain about something, go complain about the people who slaughter them and build factories on top of their habitat. Maybe start by looking into the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup!

[@coraltown1]

Sometimes I'm not quite clear on why every animal needs to be grabbed and handled .. on this and most other channels.

[@peterw6490]

I enjoy your videos greatly however not this one. You guys are loud and aggressive with the snakes disturbing their peace screaming at them. Not a good look. Also when you find two snakes together leave them the hell alone.

[@mcsuckalives2302]

Dang, you got money shotted big time! The price you pay right?