Being layed up from my knee surgery gave me the idea to post some of my "best of" photos from my New Jersey copper project from April and May '09. Enjoy!
First snake at the den in late April was a Timber!
First view of a Copperhead!
Our drift fence did not stop large male rattlesnakes.
First copper in a trap
Weighing the small male...was too small for a transmitter
Female under a bush
Looked like she could be gravid
cruising racer looking for young of years...
...Like this...run little copper!
24 inch male copperhead
Just missed the cut for a transmitter...so frustrating!
YOY in a trap.
22 inch female
20 inch female
Dark patterned and angry 16 inch male
29 inch gravid fermale...largest and last snake of the project. All in all 16 coppers were found at the den over a 6 week period. Cant wait to visit again this year.
