Recent content by Uptonogood

Zimbabwe, caught tilapia. Botswana, caught small tiger fish. Guides sucked on both episodes.

When I worked for the USFWS in Georgia, I assisted a law enforcement officer in a plain clothes setup for illegal clapper rail hunting. The only guy we busted was a county commissioner who pleaded for us not to publicly publish his arrest for hunting/shooting rails while under power. Yeah, right.

A different view in the spring with lawn and Lab. I miss both of them.

Front yard in Seattle, twelve years ago. The buyers said they truly loved the yard. It only took them a month to rip it all out. Left and right yard views…

Very sorry to hear of your struggles. I went through similar pattern 40 years ago, decided my genetics coupled with my father’s death at age 54 from alcohol helped me decide to quit. I heard it the other day, “Alcoholism is a self diagnosis issue.” I also found that my recovery led to discovery...

Most excellent! Congratulations!

I’ve always been a Labrador fan. Grits has gone a number of years now. She loved floating the South Fork of the Snake River and rivers in Montana. The guides loved having her, too.

From the NW or in general? .

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That rhyme is frowned upon by experts due to some color variations. I still use it. The coral snake has a small mouth and it’s hard to get bitten by one. They are also very secretive, I’ve never seen a live one and only one dead one in a jar and I’ve spent 30+ years and many hundred hours out in...

A couple of days after moving back to the Southeast, my wife brought this to me for identification. Pretty little snake, isn’t it?

A broad headed skink sunning in the garden. Pretty critters eh?

A highly venomous South African puff adder in Northern Cape a few years back. They don’t typically kill any snakes but the puffy snake whose skin is in the photo below, was found in their laundry room. I said to the kids’ mother “That must have been scary, wasn’t it?”. The kids mother, a Ph.D...

Our new downstairs neighbor getting some cool shade before our 100+ days came to an end. He ain’t very big, 6ft or so. Didn’t see any hatchlings this year, they must have removed momma and made a suitcase or a pair of boots out of her.

Eastern Montana a few years ago. I always felt real small out there.