Center for Snake Conservation - Survey Site - Trip Reports
August 6th ( 6:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. )
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Cool weather had me second guessing heading out to the Boulder site or not. Glad we decided to go, lots of help form dedicated volunteers and city of Boulder Open Space employees produced 1 Racer and 3 Rattlesnakes. We re-deployed a recovered shed transmitter. Taping the transmitters to the snakes is working well.
Participants: CSC Volunteers Cameron Young, Kevin Urbanek, Ryan Urbanek, Cole Wild, Maia, and Jake Millford
Boulder Employees: Jake, Christian, Zach, Ryan
Totals: 1 Adult Male Racer, 3 Adult Male Prairie Rattlesnakes
Participants: CSC Volunteers Cameron Young, Kevin Urbanek, Ryan Urbanek, Cole Wild, Maia, and Jake Millford
Boulder Employees: Jake, Christian, Zach, Ryan
Totals: 1 Adult Male Racer, 3 Adult Male Prairie Rattlesnakes
July 31st ( 8:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
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Snuck out to Boulder for a quiet night of herping weather was nice but cool.
Participants: Cameron Young, Kevin Urbanek
Totals: 1 Adult Female Bullsnake, 2 Adult Male Prairie Rattlesnakes
Participants: Cameron Young, Kevin Urbanek
Totals: 1 Adult Female Bullsnake, 2 Adult Male Prairie Rattlesnakes
July 30th ( 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. )
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Colorado has had a cool down which makes finding snakes difficult. Myself and 3 City of Boulder techs went out to find rattlesnakes and deploy transmitters. Ironing out bugs prior to fall, the goal is to have 10 transmitters in the field when the snakes go underground for hibernation. Data on hibernaculum locations will be valuable for determining new trail locations. Our non invasive technique lasts until the snake sheds then we retrieve the transmitter and redeploy. Mission was successful.
Participants: Zach, Jake, Mikah, Kevin Urbanek
Totals: 1 Adult Female Prairie Rattlesnake, 1 Adult Male Prairie Rattlesnake, 1 Woodhouse Toad
Participants: Zach, Jake, Mikah, Kevin Urbanek
Totals: 1 Adult Female Prairie Rattlesnake, 1 Adult Male Prairie Rattlesnake, 1 Woodhouse Toad
July 24th ( 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. )
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Ryan and I were on our way to Lyons and stopped off at the survey site for a quick visit, looming storms shortened our trip. Ryan located an adult male Prairie Rattlesnake on the crawl.
July 17th ( 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. )
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Night of the Racers. Ryan and I arrived a little early and had time to look around the parking lot, found 2 adult Racers 1 male and 1 gravid female. She was the largest racer we have found in Colorado. Went to the survey site and despite our best effort, could only find 1 adult racer.
Participants: Cameron Young, Ryan Urbanek, Kevin Urbanek
Totals: 3 Adult Racers (Only one counts for the survey)
Participants: Cameron Young, Ryan Urbanek, Kevin Urbanek
Totals: 3 Adult Racers (Only one counts for the survey)
June 26th ( 7:30 p.m. - 11:30 p.m. )
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After lots of looking we finally found our first and second Milksnakes of the season. Weather was perfect, snakes were hard to come by.
Participants:
Ryan Urbanek, Kevin Urbanek, Cameron Young, CJ Vialpando, Chris Winne, Lisa Winne, Heather Warchaloski. Cole Wild Boulder employees Jake and Heather
Totals: Prairie Rattlesnake = 1
Eastern Racers = 1
Milksnake = 2
Woodhouse Toad = 1
Participants:
Ryan Urbanek, Kevin Urbanek, Cameron Young, CJ Vialpando, Chris Winne, Lisa Winne, Heather Warchaloski. Cole Wild Boulder employees Jake and Heather
Totals: Prairie Rattlesnake = 1
Eastern Racers = 1
Milksnake = 2
Woodhouse Toad = 1
June 20th ( 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.)
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The city has approved deploying transmitters attached to Rattlesnakes. This data will be used to gain knowledge on Rattlesnake movements and hopefully hibernaculum. We were able to deploy 3 of 4 transmitters.
Participants:
Ryan Urbanek, Hayley Urbanek, Cameron Young, Joe Ehrenberger, Ian Jessup, the city of Boulder also assisted and provided 5 employees.
Totals: Prairie Rattlesnakes = 3
Easten Racers = 1
Tantilla = 1
Participants:
Ryan Urbanek, Hayley Urbanek, Cameron Young, Joe Ehrenberger, Ian Jessup, the city of Boulder also assisted and provided 5 employees.
Totals: Prairie Rattlesnakes = 3
Easten Racers = 1
Tantilla = 1
June 11th ( 8:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
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Participants:
Ryan Urbanek
Kevin Urbanek
Cameron Young
Amy Grammer
Totals:
Prairie Rattlesnakes = 1
Eastern Racers = 2
Ryan Urbanek
Kevin Urbanek
Cameron Young
Amy Grammer
Totals:
Prairie Rattlesnakes = 1
Eastern Racers = 2
May 1st - 31st
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Plains Blackheaded = 20
Prairie Rattlesnakes = 5
Eastern Racers = 3
Bullsnakes = 1
Milksnakes = 0
Prairie Rattlesnakes = 5
Eastern Racers = 3
Bullsnakes = 1
Milksnakes = 0
