Some photos for you snake lovers

[dan hufferd]

2 minutes ago, ness said:

We saw two of them that day. Of course, the area is a lot different than the Ozarks. 

I am guessing they like lots of big rocks. They are pretty good size too at least a foot long from head to tail

 

[ness]

31 minutes ago, dan hufferd said:

I am guessing they like lots of big rocks. They are pretty good size too at least a foot long from head to tail

 

This was rocky soil out in tall grass prairie. We saw them in a draw with bigger rocks and a lot of cedars around. I'd say they were close to a foot long. The color was what was so striking. 

[dan hufferd]

Great photos ! When it's hot those things are super fast too ! When I was a boy we lived near Fort Worth TX I used to catch a similar creature but of a different color, and horny toads by the dozen, which are really a lizard, and I guess are about extinct now.

Now I am really off topic...Oh well. Really neat pictures and accounts from everyone, good reading.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Still plenty of Horny Toads in SW OK. 

[Brian Jones]

On 4/29/2016 at 6:18 PM, Al Agnew said:

There was a glade on a hillside along Terre Bleue Creek in St. Francois County that had a nice population of collared lizards back when I was a teenager and waded the creek a lot.  I'd walked up into a plowed field to look for Indian relics, and the glade pretty mcuh came right down to the edge of the field.  It was rocky and grassy.  I saw one on a rock, so I walked up to get a better look and saw several more.  

There were also a few in what is now St. Joe State Park, living on the embankments that impounded the mine tailings.  No idea if there are still any there.

For some reason the old timers, including my grandpa, called them "glade bitches".

Though it has been years since I've seen one, there are apparently still a few around the house; or at least the MDC believes so.  They asked our neighbor to participate in a program aimed at improving their habitat by cutting back the brush and overgrown areas to expose more of the glades.  I'm fairly certain they did the same thing a few years back in St. Joe Park as well.