Texas Indigos I saw last month in South TX
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Posted by SE Texas Guy on December 12, 2001 at 01:57:05:
I live in Texas and have for the last 22 years. I have several friends that have 5000- 20000 acre deer leases in South Texas from Laredo to the Brownsville TX border. I use to hunt deer ,birds etc. in my 20's and 30's but as I got older I could no longer do it and have become a Naturalist, wuss or whatever. However I still travel frequently with my friends, drink beer chase women and whatever because I love the outdoors and am very interested in TX snakes and other wildlife:)- still lokking for my first S. TX ocelot- good luck . In these private lease preserves the amount of TX Indigos is astounding . In November we saw huge indigos at least 6-7 foot and thick. We also see the small ones- 3 foot which is probably one year old I guess- It is very hot in South TX- similar to S.FL. I saw one 3 footer that tried to go into a tank-TX for cow water pond- and did and then came up quickly. One main point- TX has done a great job of preserving these creatures.It's actully hard to believe that they are still on the rare list. However one must realize in TX 90 % of the land is held by individuals or corporations. For example in nevada and those states the Feds own 50 %. Indigos are everywhere in the rural -non populated areas outside Laredo and below- I saw at least 20 during 4 days outside of my buddies S.TX deer lease in early November.I have a theory that huge Deer leases are actually very beneficial to these snakes and all other wildlife-( deer get overpopulated), because no development or Agriculture occurs. This is my first post on this board and I hope the OPs managers continue the board.I just found it.
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