Weekly snake thread

bondjamesbond said:
My friend, who knows more about timber rattlers than I do, said it was a defensive posture.
They kinda flatten out to appear bigger before they coil for attack/defense mode.
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That's their clicking back the hammer or racking the slide on the shotgun, before they pull the trigger. If you see this and they are moving, simply go another way. If you see this and they are not moving, run.
 
Caught this one in the garage a few minutes ago.

I think he is a slow learner. Looks to be the same one that was in the bird house a few weeks ago.

Also had one that looks about ths size come out of the radiator area on my 140 Tractor when I started it last Monday.

I moved him back to the pasture but he headed back towards the house.

I chased him into my shed where he disappeared.

My wife said he had one more chance. If he shows in the garage again he is done.

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Send him to my house. You can put him in a LFRB and poke some holes in it. Just be sure to put SNEK on the box so it's legal.
 
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We've had a bunch of the Dekays Brown snakes this year. They have always been fun, especially when the kids were smaller. Youngest daughter held this one for awhile this week. The black snake showed up the next day. Nice size and relatively tame. I was in the garage and heard my 18 year old son working on his truck in the driveway let out an unmanly shriek. He yelled for me and said there was a snake. I honestly thought it was going to be the little brown snake but it ended up being this 4-5 ft black snake. I had to grab him from going in the garage and get him out in the yard headed in a good direction. First decent snake of the year.
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Heavy Barrel said:
If anyone close by wants a nice socialized black snake I can put him in a feed sack and you can pick him up if he keeps showing up in the wrong place
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I’ll pm you my number, next time he shows up I’ll come get him ifn im able at the moment
 
Copperhead? Eastern Corn Snake
Neighbor ran it over then the crows got to it.
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Dale Gribble said:
How long do you think that sucker is?



Great pic.
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He was longer than my Council Tool axe handle.

And thanks! We were driving down Harden Swamp road and it was crossing. I opened the door to get out and get a decent pic. My wife was piercing my right ear with her screams for me to close the door. So, the best I could do was pull along side of it and get a pic hanging out the window. That's why the snake was doubling back.
 
He went up in there for something. is there a birds nest in the bush?
 
GoWolfpack said:
Saw this guy on a tree in my front yard.

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My son said "he won't sting us, he doesn't have a chatter tail."

He's not exactly wrong
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Looks like a Black snake to me. I know they climb trees....maybe others do too, but I got one out of a Maple a few years ago by shaking tree limb and caught him in box. Took it down to woods and turned it loose. Black snakes are good to have around....catch mice, rodents, etc. Not poisonous.
 
I had a black snake in the yard this morning. I didn't get a picture because as soon as I confirmed what it was, it was a full time job distracting the cat (see my avatar) so she wouldn't see it. She is an incorrigible killer. While she has a habit of playing with her food, at least she's pretty good at following buffet rules.
 
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ulflyer said:
Looks like a Black snake to me. I know they climb trees....maybe others do too, but I got one out of a Maple a few years ago by shaking tree limb and caught him in box. Took it down to woods and turned it loose. Black snakes are good to have around....catch mice, rodents, etc. Not poisonous.
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Definitely a black snake. Not capitalized, just species: snake, color: black.


We left him alone to continue with what he was doing. Hopefully killing the mouse that got in my garage then moving on somewhere else.
 
Catfish said:
He went up in there for something. is there a birds nest in the bush?
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Yes, pretty sure somewhere in the shrubs in front of the house.. He had a wound on him that may have been from a bird peck. When he was in the grass a group of birds showed up and flapped their wings and darted in to peck at him.
 
My friend has 4 German shorthair pointers and the goofy male got hit by a copperhead today. Her yard is sandy, between two fields, clean and well mowed with nice centipede, and just one tree, a live oak, that the dogs lay under. The copperhead was under the tree (I figure cicada hunting). She's snake friendly and has several gray/yellow rat snakes around, but this copperhead was a good scare. She's removed all tin etc off the ground. Would spreading sulfur help to annoy them away?
 
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tod0987 said:
My friend has 4 German shorthair pointers and the goofy male got hit by a copperhead today. Her yard is sandy, between two fields, clean and well mowed with nice centipede, and just one tree, a live oak, that the dogs lay under. The copperhead was under the tree (I figure cicada hunting). She's snake friendly and has several gray/yellow rat snakes around, but this copperhead was a good scare. She's removed all tin etc off the ground. Would spreading sulfur help to annoy them away?
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I'd use cedar chips or cedar oil. It irritates their respiratory tract and they avoid it. Sulphur can work as well, but I wouldn't use it around kids or dogs (since it's poisonous) and it's been known to kill certain grass.
 
Found this picture I forgot I had while looking for something else, originally from 2018 taken at FLD.

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If it ain't a rattlesnake, coral snake, copperhead, or cottonmouth, it's harmless and should be left alone.

Coral snakes are easy to ID. Red and yellow bands touch, then it's likely a coral snake. If it also has a black head, it's an eastern coral snake. The juvenile coral snake is just as easy to ID as the mature, being as distinctly colored.

Rattlesnakes are pit vipers, with a distinct put viper head even for juveniles. They're generally patterned the same as adults, but newly hatched may only have a "button" on the tail instead of a full rattle.

Copperhead juveniles are a bit more difficult to ID, some being similar to non-venomous snakes, but they still have that distinctive triangular head of a pit viper.

Cottonmouth juveniles can also be kind of easy to confuse with some other snakes. But again...pit viper head.

If you aren't sure...don't eff with it. If you aren't sure and it ain't on your property or other place where a venomous snake could pose a danger, leave it alone. Take "shots" with your camera at a safe distance and post them here for everybody to argue about.

'Cause that's what we do!
 
Copperheads are easy to ID... no other snake has a barbell pattern, with the "bar" bent over their back. Broad at the belly, narrow at the spine.

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@RetiredUSNChief said :
"Copperhead juveniles are a bit more difficult to ID, some being similar to non-venomous snakes, but they still have that distinctive triangular head of a pit viper.

Cottonmouth juveniles can also be kind of easy to confuse with some other snakes. But again...pit viper head."

The young copperheads have a green tip on their tail which they use to mimic a bug so small prey will try to eat it before the young copperheads can strike it and then eat the prey.

Last week I had a huge copperhead out by the pool - about 30 inches and fat.

The next night I found another brown snake on the pool cover, but it was a Brown Water Snake. I think my Eastern Rat Snake has run off and is not doing his job! Maybe the owls got him.
 
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