I caught this buttermilk racer yesterday. I am wondering if he is one of the ones photographed last year because they both had similar spot on thier head. This is the one I caught yesterday. Whenever I released him he climbed up a big thickett of bamboo and then climbed on the top of the carport!

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This is the one that I took pics of last year. Do you think it is the same one? I only saw one that was this big until yesterday, all the others were still juveniles.

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Wow thats a cool lookin racer. That second pic is a nice one. I always have trouble gettin a good pic of the adults. The racers in Kansas are greenish to brownish to greyish. Do they all have those spots in your area?

Yes, the only type of racers that I have seen in my immediate area were Coluber constrictor anthicus(Buttermilk Racer). I have never caught any other type of racer though. Last year at Enchanted Rock I photographed and released a Central Texas Whipsnake. I did not even know what it was until I got back home. I thought it was some crazy type of coachwhip or racer. I had forgotten all about whipsnakes.