The Buckeye Herps Blog

Everglades and Pythons

2012-02-02T00:44:00.000-05:00

Pythons have been all over the news of late. A recent paper reported the decline of certain mammals in Everglades National Park since the introduction of pythons a number of years ago. The title states that mammal population declines coincide with python population proliferation. The paper takes available data, and reports it with some conclusions. It is flawed, but it is a starting point to

Winter Herp(ing) 2011

2012-01-30T22:35:00.001-05:00

I can't title this "Winter Herps" unfortunately. If you are looking for pics of herps or epic adventures in the snow, you should look elsewhere. I can try and help show what desperate measures some midwestern herpers will go through during the doldrums of winter. There isn't much to do around here this time of the year. As mentioned previously, winter provides good opportunities to catch up

Winter Herps December 2011

2012-01-22T19:59:00.002-05:00

Already seems like ages ago now... I was able to get home to northeast Ohio for a short 48 hour trip prior to the holidays. It was unseasonably warm, in fact quite balmy in the 40s. It rained pretty much the whole trip, but my brother Brian and I decided to try and hit the field anyway. We headed north on 12/21/11 to focus on mountain dusky salamanders and maybe a red salamander if we were

Go Wolverines!

2012-01-02T14:27:00.000-05:00

Despite the name of the blog and the website, I am a Michigan Wolverine fan through and through. Unfortunately, my wife, family and medschool roommates are all OSU buckeyes. I wish I was better at picking friends... THE big game was in Ann Arbor this year, so a bunch of us loaded up the cars and set out for a day of tail gating fun. It was blustery and cold, but good times were had by all.

Lost and Found

2011-12-20T14:28:00.000-05:00

I was digging through some folder files and found images that never got edited or posted from the spring. I had spent a morning wandering around one of the local metroparks, hoping for a sunning massasauga rattlesnake. None were out today, but I enjoyed some of the other flora and fauna that were available for my camera lens. There was a large group of hikers following these poor