johnkeisers's Identifications

My lifer, not counting one that was found by a friend while camping in the Pine Barrens almost exactly a year ago (of which in any case I don’t have photos).

Based on the sparsity of observations of this species in the area on iNat, it wasn’t even a checklist item for the trip. Moreover, by this point in the day I had given up on seeing snakes entirely, and was only flipping rocks out of sheer compulsion while I hiked.

Based on this observation and another one later, I suspect that this species is in fact as locally abundant in the right parts of Harriman as it is in much of the rest of its range.