California Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula californiae)

Created: March 11th, 2010 - 12:58 AM
Last Modified: October 3rd, 2012 - 08:13 PM Entered by: Brian Hinds-AKA Fundad
Record 39675

Country: United States		State: California	County: Fresno County	Time: 2006-04-16 02:30:00
Qty: 1	Age: Adult	Sex: Male	Method: Artificial cover flipping	Habitat: Grasland Marsh near farmland
Body Temperature: -----		Air Temperature: 67.00F	Ground Temperature: -----	Humidity: -----
Sky Conditions: Cloudy		Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous	Elevation: 180.00ft	Barometric Pressure: -----

Notes

Found out crawling, Picture as found.

Found with my Dad...

We watched this large king crawl around for about 20 minutes before he went down a Vole hole..

The king searched around both Railroad ties, than went back to the edge of the grass and looked around the edge of the grass before retreating underground. We tried to maintain our distance, but when he went in the grass we lost him for a minute, than we may have spooked him trying to find him, when he retreated back underground..

Very Cool to just sit back and observe him

Update 2011 Habitat has been plowed, unknown reason, outside of the fact that people in this area seem to be plow happy people. :(

Vouchers

Comments

Posted by Ross Padilla on Apr 24, 2010 at 01:25 PM

Great observation. Thats a very neat way to see one in the wild.