How to Find Snakes

My latest two videos are to encourage people to go out and look for wildlife on their own.  I think it's really important that people get off the couch and get into all natural places.  In recent history I feel like a ton of people are just getting really disconnected from nature.  We were once living in nature and everyday we experienced it.  It seems we've now outsmarted nature and have made things easy.  I almost went on a rabbit trail there but I'm bringing it back to the main topic.  There is some interest in finding snakes and it's not an easy thing to do so I wanted to give people a few ideas on what to look for and notice in nature when they're looking for wildlife.  I also wanted to give the lazy people (sometimes me) an option as this is generally a more productive method and it's easy, road cruising.  Yeah basically when you notice good conditions you just drive down back roads in the middle of nowhere.  It can actually be really relaxing and somewhat therapeutic.  These two episodes were shot over the summer so there was a decent amount of road cruising done and I wanted to show a variety of species.  Anyway, I hope it gave y'all some things to think about and I hope y'all find some really awesome wildlife!

Southeast Road Trip!

This was an awesome trip!  If you want to read more about it you can go back to the original post about the trip here.  I really like going to new areas and exploring.  This was the first time I had been to Tennessee on my own and I definitely need spend more time up in the hills.  It's so beautiful up there!  I hope y'all enjoy the video :)

Gopher Tortoises!

As a kid I grew up alongside gopher tortoises and they were just always cool to see.  I knew nothing about their protection so I would always pick them up and check if they were male or female by looking under them, checking for the indention that would signify its masculinity.  Even as a kid I got to watch two males fighting over territory and I ran in and separated them.  I was always taught that you shouldn't fight so my childish mind thought the tortoises shouldn't fight either.  When filming this episode some of the footage actually came from the land that I grew up on and possibly some of the same individuals that I played with as a kid.

Lizard Island

This was a cool episode and it was actually the first episode I ever filmed... like a year ago.  When I heard about AnimalBytesTV I emailed Brian Barczyk and told him what kind of show I was interested in doing and he told me to go film something for him.  So, I went out to "Lizard Island" and just started filming lizards.  I stayed out there for hours and just filmed every little thing.  Then I threw it together and sent it to him.  He liked me and my content but there were a few issues so he told me he was interested in having me but I needed to resolve these issues first.  That's when I invested in new camera equipment and really hit the filming hard.  I actually ended up completely re-doing this episode because it just wasn't as good as I wanted.  So this was the episode that got me in with AnimalBytesTV!