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Tiny green worm that started this obsession

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I came across a photo recently which was my first (and only) wild caught snake back in 2006, I believe. It is a smooth green snake and it was tiny as hell!

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Ever since my encounter with this snake, I had been interested in snakes and had wanted one. In 2008, after tons of research, I purchased my first corn snake and ever since I have been completely obsessed!

I just felt like sharing with the community :) Feel free to post your own stories! Pics are always greatly welcome ;)

Thanks for looking!
 
EDIT: Sorry, I mentioned that this snake had been my only wild caught snake... After posting I realized I made a mistake. I have caught 2 wild caught snakes, the first being this snake and the second being a red-bellied snake :)
 
One of my favourite snakes!

My fascination started with wild snakes as well. I can always remember particularly liking snakes and other "creepy crawly" animals, and the first time I saw a garter snake at the age of five my heart just stopped. I dove to catch it, but it was much too fast for my five year-old reflexes! Into the woods it disappeared. Something about how elusive they are makes them that much more fascinating. It's such a reward to find them in nature.
 
What a pretty little animal. I don't think we have green snakes, here. Certainly I've never seen one, and I grew up a country girl.

So, did you keep it? If so, did it survive long? Or did you release it?
 
We have keeled green snakes down here, larger in general. Where there is one, there are often many, one just has to look...for the moving vines. I caught many back in the 1970's and 80's. I've had several lay long skinny eggs that I hatched.

I always wanted to see a smooth green snake. And a red-bellied snake.
 
I released the smooth green snake after I had taken pictures. At the time I was young and did not know a thing about caring for snakes or reptiles lol! I had such a hard time putting the little guy back down... It was too cute!
 
That's a neat little green worm! Just how I'd think of a baby like that. Bright mono-green is such a cool color in snakes. *sigh if I only had resources for all these cool snakes ppl bring up... <-want dream list keeps growing lol
 
My very first snake pet was a rough green snake named Aesop. He was the cutest! I really liked him.

I got him in college because growing up my mom (who, I might add, now has 15 snakes of her own!) hated snakes and refused to let me get one. She always told me as soon as I moved out, I could get one, so I did!
 
We grew up with snakes near us and spent a lot of time at a river area full of snakes when I was very young, but the first snake I actually touched was a big indigo at a grade school assembly. I have no idea how big it was, at the time it was huuuge to me. After that I watched the snakes around our river cabin a lot more and got to "know" them much better. I was safe, we had two agkistrodon in PA but we knew them, we were taught that. I still have never handled a copperhead or a cottonmouth.

That was a nice little snakey to start your fascination! They have such a beautiful color. Around here they look just like the small green vines and new green twigs in the trees and bushes, they're very hard to find because they're so small. Crappy pic, but you get the idea:

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I do wild snakes almost every weekend, but I rarely find these. They DO hang out where I work, and occasionally need to be moved away from work areas.
One from last year:

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And this was one of the snakes I saw on my birthday this year:

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I can't let these little ones hang out near the shop. They can't cover enough ground quickly enough to get away from a forklift or a truck, and they're so small that the guys don't see them.
So this one hung out for a bit until I gave him a new area:

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Great pics Alan! I almost didn't see the snake in the first pic, and the last pic is really cute lol! I really want to go back to where I found that snake 4 years ago and try some field herping. I think it'd be really fun! Especially if I got lucky enough to find something :p
 
Go! The only way to find them is to get out there!
Look around your area. I don't have snakes in my neighborhood, but they're not far away.
Most weekends I at least get to go to our local wildlife refuge. I really like that place. It's not the best herping because I'm not free to roam and you're not supposed to touch the critters, but even there I almost always find some snakes.
Other places around here are better, harder to get through and a little messy, but more fun herping-wise than at the refuge.
Take your quiet feet, your open eyes, and around here in the summer, DEET.
 
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