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Eastern Garter Snake basking on Osmunda Ferns.
photo by James Fischer |
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(l to r) Madeline Bove, Twan Leenders, and Becca Solnit peeling
through the Snake Cover-Board Pile at Apple Hill Lower Field.
photo by James Fischer |
Twan Leenders, CT Audubon Society Conservation Biologist, joined us yesterday to see our Snake Cover-board Monitoring program. It was great having Twan because he offered us all kinds of advice about how can improve and modify the program. It also gave us an opportunity to show him unique parts of the property that we conserve. We encountered 3 species: 8 Eastern Garter Snakes, 3 Northern Redbelly Snake, and 1 Eastern Milk Snake. We check all of the 12 cover-board piles on the property between 12:30 p.m. through 15:10 p.m. EST. Madeline Bove, Ryan Gannon, and Becca Solnit were also present, which begins to explain why this session was so efficient, because we had so many hands and eyes present that searching for the snakes.
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