» Uncategorized http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:41:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Stop the Python Ban! http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2012/01/04/stop-the-python-ban/ http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2012/01/04/stop-the-python-ban/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:41:25 +0000 admin http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/?p=181 Continue reading →]]> Do your part to voice your opposition to the Python ban. Please take the time to defend your rights! There is no scientific basis for the legislation. Large constricting snakes have caused fewer human injuries than other companion animals such as dogs. Their true potential for habitat invasion is restricted to extreme southern Florida where they have already established themselves. This law will do nothing more than destroy the hobbies and businesses of thousands of people nationwide.

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]]> http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2012/01/04/stop-the-python-ban/feed/ 0 We have a new website, reptile-photos.com. http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/06/21/we-have-a-new-website-reptile-photos-com/ http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/06/21/we-have-a-new-website-reptile-photos-com/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:24:03 +0000 JDM http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/?p=171 Continue reading →]]> We have recently built, and are still building, a new photography and artwork website for reptile art, called reptile-photos.com. The idea is to share our reptile photography and artwork with the public. You are free to browse and enjoy the images, share them via the links with friends, and even purchase prints for yourself or for others. We hope you enjoy!

Reptile-photos.com

]]> http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/06/21/we-have-a-new-website-reptile-photos-com/feed/ 0 Snake in the grass and a surprise http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/03/26/snake-in-the-grass-and-a-surprise/ http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/03/26/snake-in-the-grass-and-a-surprise/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:55:21 +0000 admin http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/?p=164 Continue reading →]]> I went out on a local hike today with my best bud. I am still trying to find reptiles emerging from winter dormancy. Reptiles can often be found basking, foraging, and mating this time of year here in the Phoenix area. I also hoped to photograph a Great Horned Owl that we saw the last time we hiked this trail. As we approached the rock pile where we had found the Owl last week, we saw her again! I carefully approached to try and take a photograph. I only have a 100mm lens so unfortunately I have to get closer to the bird than I would like in order to get a good picture. Unfortunately, I “spooked” the owl while I was still a good distance away and it flew into a distant tree. We decided to carefully approach the nest to see if the owl was incubating eggs. To my surprise, this is what I saw:

Great Horned Owl Nest

After we took our photos, we left them be. We decended into a nearby was and hiked it for a while. The wash had steep rocky walls on either side. We walked along the rocky and at times sandy wash without finding any further wildlife other than a few whiptail lizards. I was running short on time and had to hurry back to my truck to head home. I cut through some rocky areas as a “short cut” that may also yeild the discovery of a basking snake or possibly a desert tortoise. I looked at the time and had to speed up my pace since time had already run out. While rapidly walking, I noticed at my feet a small Desert Patchnose Snake sunning itself in the late afternoon sun:

Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis

Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis

The snake lay motionless. Occasionally it would flicker its tongue. Since the snake seemed cooperative, I got on the ground and crawled closer to get a better photo of its head and its “patch nose”:

Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis

Salvadora hexalepis hexalepis

After photographing this spectacular animal, I quickly rushed back to my vehicle and sped home, arriving back home almost exactly on time (depending on whom you ask!).

]]> http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/03/26/snake-in-the-grass-and-a-surprise/feed/ 1 Mohave Rattlesnake video http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/01/20/mohave-rattlesnake-video/ http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/01/20/mohave-rattlesnake-video/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:00:23 +0000 JDM http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/?p=141 Continue reading →]]> Here is another short video clip of a Mohave Rattlesnake that we found this past spring of 2010. I am really looking forward to this year! I may spend a little time this spring looking for Rosy Boas and some time looking for montane rattlesnakes in southern Arizona this summer. We should also be hatching out lots of baby cornsnakes, california kingsnakes, and if I am lucky some gray banded kingsnakes and bairds ratsnakes.

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]]> http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2011/01/17/sidewinder-youtube-video/feed/ 0 Kill S373 http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2009/12/31/kill-s373/ http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2009/12/31/kill-s373/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:26:33 +0000 JDM http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/?p=85 Continue reading →]]> The efforts to ban 9 species of constrictors is now well underway. The Senate Bill number is 373. This bill is unacceptable and founded upon faulty information pushed forward by Animal Rights Activist organizations. This legislation must be stopped. Please do your part immediately to stop this bill. Please visit http://www.kill-s373.com now and write your senators. It is very simple to do if you go to http://www.kill-s373.com you will get all of the information that you need in order to do this. The deadline on this is January 20th so please do this today!

www.kill-s373.com

]]> http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2009/12/31/kill-s373/feed/ 0 Animal Rights groups and Reptile keepers http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2009/02/18/animal-rights-groups-and-reptile-keepers/ http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2009/02/18/animal-rights-groups-and-reptile-keepers/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:10:58 +0000 JDM http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2009/02/18/animal-rights-groups-and-reptile-keepers/ Continue reading →]]> Wow. It has been a long time since my last post. I had no idea it was this long. In any case, I found a very good article that illustrates what animal rights groups are trying to do to the Reptile industry. They would like to have it shut down completely. They are well funded and my guess is that they are behind a large amount of the legislation that is being proposed and passed in various states across the country.

Animal Rights Information

]]> http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2009/02/18/animal-rights-groups-and-reptile-keepers/feed/ 0 Steve Irwin – Rest in Peace http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2006/09/04/steve-irwin-rest-in-peace/ http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2006/09/04/steve-irwin-rest-in-peace/#comments Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:40:10 +0000 ADPace http://blog.desertcanyonreptiles.com/2006/09/04/steve-irwin-rest-in-peace/ Continue reading →]]> The Crocodile Hunter was killed by a Sting-Ray this morning.  Irwin was a great entertainer and a great teacher.  He took the camera into the animals habitat and gave his viewers a perspective of the animals not often shown.  To appreciate something, you need to understand it.  Steve Irwin encouraged people to appreciate animals by helping them understand them  My sincerest condolences to his family.  May he rest in peace.

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