Smooth Earth Snake (Virginia valeriae)

http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/snakes/virval.htm

I found my first Smooth Earth Snake (Virginia valeriae.) That's first as in ever. Which is pretty damn exciting. And I have my own pictures too, but I left them in the lab at school. (Blast!) I'll post them whenever I get a chance.

I found the snake while actually road herping (eagle eye?)up to the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area just before the border with Berkeley and Morgan counties in West Virginia. Does anyone know where that is? Well either way... my copy of Peterson's doesn't have the snakes' distribution in this area.

I have to wonder if anyone over at Marshall University http://www.marshall.edu/herp/ has seen any around her in their recent grad student excursions...

It's a lifelister kids.

Now if anyone has seen a queen snake...