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Originally Posted by Bruce Litton
My son used to be a snake fanatic and found 10 of the 16 NJ species and photographed them over five or six years. But he never found the smooth green snake, not in NJ, though the two of us did in Illinois. (He once found a whole den of copperheads up on a ridge north of I-80--16 copperheads he counted, catching the largest with his tongs to set on gravel so they assumed strike positions for good photos.)
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My dad took my brother and I out as kids just to look for snakes. One of the best places was along old rr tracks where there was discarded rr ties. Found a million snakes this way with the most common being - duh - Garter snakes. Also found Hognose, Milk, Black Rat, Black Racer, Ring-necked and Brown Snakes. Found Pine Snake @ Colliers Mills WMA. That is a beautiful snake. Seen quite a few Copperheads along the rocks/boulders that were put in place along some of the old rr tracks in particular the Lackawanna Cutoff.
