Soooo this past week was a busy week. I had the opportunity to go do alligator releases, electroshocking, and hunt for Louisiana pine snakes. Alligator releases is basically tagging alligators at alligator farms that need to be released back into the wild. We only had to do about 250, but they can do over 700. Electroshocking was neat, but very, very hot. We caught a variety of fish including baby alligator gar, eels, blue gills, largemouth bass, buffalo fish, etc. It was definitely really cool though.
Looking through snake traps for pine snakes was really awesome too, since I really live snakes, but it was also a extremely long day, a 15 hour day to be exact. I had to drive to Lake Charles, then we had to make a 3 hour drive to Bienville, which makes for a long day in the car. Handling snakes was cool. We found many, many snakes, but most importantly we found 2 pine snakes. One was an older girl, who had already been tagged. The other was a young juvenile, which had never been tagged before. Other snakes we caught included coach whips, cottonmouths, a copperhead, swarovki corn snakes, and a rat snake, Other animals caught included a bunny, mouse, lizard and two birds.
Here is a picture of a Louisiana pine snake:
and more pics:
copperhead and coachwhip
Even though I work long, hot days most of the time, I am really glad I have gotten experience in a variety of areas.
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