Author Archive: Mike Pingleton

Cape Aquatic Garter Snake

Mike Pingleton November 1, 2015 0 Life Listicles Baja Sur, Cape Aquatic Garter Snake, Thamnophis, Thamnophis valida celaeno

I arrived a day later than the rest of the 2013 expedition to Baja Sur, in order to save myself $250 on the plane ticket. Consequently, I missed out on the first day’s catch, including a large calling congress of Spotted Toads (Bufo punctatus), and several Cape Aquatic Garter Snakes…
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Hello world!

Mike Pingleton October 4, 2015 0 General field herping, herp

I started field herping in the early 1970s. I’ve been blogging about herps since 1996. Of course, blogging hadn’t been invented yet, but nobody told us, the handful of proto-bloggers who felt the compulsion to write about our adventures with amphibians and reptiles. I used to write lengthy missives about…
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