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Does anybody like Coastal Plains Milksnakes?

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Of course, I know as well as anybody that temporalis doesn't really exist ( :D ), but hey, they take nice pictures...

I was going through my old photos trying to figure out how I could digitize everything. Needless to say I can't digitize everything but I'm working on some select stuff and temporalis is one of animals I want digitized.

So if you can hang in there for a long photo session you will get to see some temporalis. Some I caught. Some are CB. Some belong to friends.

This first picture is of a young adult male I caught. He is the father of the St Mary's temporalis featured on the poster "Milk Snakes of North America" produced by Thurgess Cranston and Walter Broda.
 

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oops!

That didn't take long to screw up. That is actually a sibling to the animal on the poster.

Here is the father....
 

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next....

Here is the first temporalis I ever caught. It was about 2:30AM around the middle of May while road crusing St Mary's cnty. I about had a heart attack when I saw this thing stretch out on the road. I had looked so hard for a few years and was about ready to give up

Glad I hung in there.
 

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I want to apologize

Please forgive the quality of these photos. I'm still trying to see how best to digitize these things and I recognize they are substandard. Hopefully I'll get better in the future.

Here is the 2nd temporalis I ever caught which happened to be the first week of June road cruising. It was about 10:00PM.

I have no idea why I only kept this "top down" photo...
 

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This one wasn't mine

This snake was produced by my good friend Robby Sparks. We about pooped our pants to see this thing pip. It was definately a first and we thought it was an albino at the time. We later learned that it wasn't really an albino, but hey, who cares right?

Oh yes, this is a Calvert Cnty, Maryland ancestory animal.
 

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Now that I think about it....

That animal featured above was sold to Carl Bartlett I think. Here is a picture of the mother which was wild caught by Chuck Akochios (spelling). We just called him half-head.

She's kind of dark but look how bright one of her babies was!
 

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You don't see these too often

This next picture is of a Salisbury, Maryland animal. There aren't too many of them around and this animal was wild caught by Martin Liddie. He concentrated on Salisbury animals and had about 6 or 7.
 

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what next?

Well, you can't have a bunch of temporalis photos without having a North Carolina animal can you now? Here is a temporalis I caught in Tyrell Cnty, NC.
 

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don't forget the northerners

And who says New Jersey milksnakes aren't pretty?
 

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what we got left?

Here is the temporalis of "temporalis" herself! This is the same animal on the poster I mentioned before. Produced by me I proudly add... :)

Hope you enjoyed the pictures.
 

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Ooops again! Here is another Calvert County, Maryland animal that I collected.
 

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And finally...

Just another pretty picture of a St Mary's temporalis...
 

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Damn John!

After looking at those photos, I felt a major pang of regret that I got rid of all my Coastals years ago. Man, that was some kind of fun looking for those things. Looking for living gemstones among the trash piles......

Thanks for sharing the photos.
 
Awesome milks

John the pics are great! I was wondering if you sell any?


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Coastal Milks

John,

Those are some gorgeous milks! Thanks for sharing the photos. I recently visited Wally Broda and he has an outstanding collection of photos. My eyes were bugging out of my head! I also picked up the milk poster from Wally, so it's interesting to learn some history behind those snakes.

Thanks again for the pics.

Todd Accornero
 
Re: Wally

John,

As far as I know, Wally's doing good. Apparently, both he and his wife have been dealing with some health issues, but from what he told me they are on the mend. He's still got an incredible herp collection with some truly stunning animals, not to mention all his great photos. Wally's just a super nice guy, very generous with his time and his knowledge. He can talk milks 'til the cows come home!

Todd
 
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