La. snake flippin’

Spent a couple days running around North La. flipping tin with the Florida boys. 42 snakes/12 species including my lifer La. milk and Eastern coachwhip. We had a grey rat triple-flip and 4 double-copperhead flips. Louisiana milk snakes are technically no longer their own subspecies - they’re just considered Western milks now…though most locals will always call them La. milks. This one was in an area where Western milks and Red milks overlap and was an intergrade - pretty much looking like a typical La. milk except for a red head instead of a black head. Yesterday the guys hit another spot without me (I was driving to Dallas) and got 3 more La. milks!

1 La. milk/red milk intergrade
1 Eastern coachwhip
1 Canebrake rattlesnake
1 Speckled kingsnake
15 Eastern copperheads
6 Grey rat snakes
4 Northern cottonmouths
2 Eastern garter snakes
6 Western ribbon snakes
3 DeKay’s brown snakes
1 Black-masked racer
1 Plain-bellied water snake















The coachwhip played dead the whole time - even drooling…