Intro: I live in Michigan, in the United States, I am a fan of African snakes. I am waiting for a reptile-centric safari to become available before I spend the money to come to Africa. I spend my weekends searching Michigan's swamps and fields for snakes, turtles and lizards.
I currently have two immediate goals that I am trying to accomplish this year: 1. Locate living wild Eastern Massausauga Rattlesnake Sistrurus catenatus catenatus(All I have found are dead ones with their rattle uncerimoniously chopped off), and 2. to locate wild Eastern Box Turtles Terrapene Carolina carolina.
Attached are my main finds for this year thus far.
The Threatened Blandings Turtle, found it crossing a road in Clare County. Emydoidea blandingii
The Eastern Garter Snake (on my shoe) found in Wayne County (Detroit) Thamnophis sirtalis
The Northern Brown Snake (in my hand) found in Wayne County (Detroit) Storeria dekayi dekayi
Will place photo in another post, 3 is my limit.
If anyone has any questions, or needs photos of any Michigan Herps, please let me know.