We saw a beautiful king snake on Ocracoke a couple years ago. First one I've seen here in NC and apart from the little neon green job I saw at the street when I was wheeling out the trash bins, the coolest snake I've ever seen.
I worked on a golf course outside of Albuquerque NM in high scool. This place was in the middle of the desert and was an oasis of green. This brought tons of rabbits, which brought coyotes and rattle snakes. We workers got called by golfers often, to dispatch rattlers they encountered. I always refused and advised that if they kept walking they'd be fine, but if you start wailing on them with a 5 iron, you'd stand a decent chance of getting bit.
I did remove some from the inhabited areas of the course. (These were western diamondback rattlers). When they would coil and rattle, I'd gently pick them up with a rake or shovel handle and flip em a few feet towards the desert. They'd land, coil and start rattling again. I'd repeat until I flipped em over the windrow into the desert scrub. They'd IMMEDIATELY scoot off at high speed as they're way more afraid of us than the other way around.
I respected 'em but I don't fear them. I am pretty careful about walking around here after dark bare footed however.
I worked on a golf course outside of Albuquerque NM in high scool. This place was in the middle of the desert and was an oasis of green. This brought tons of rabbits, which brought coyotes and rattle snakes. We workers got called by golfers often, to dispatch rattlers they encountered. I always refused and advised that if they kept walking they'd be fine, but if you start wailing on them with a 5 iron, you'd stand a decent chance of getting bit.
I did remove some from the inhabited areas of the course. (These were western diamondback rattlers). When they would coil and rattle, I'd gently pick them up with a rake or shovel handle and flip em a few feet towards the desert. They'd land, coil and start rattling again. I'd repeat until I flipped em over the windrow into the desert scrub. They'd IMMEDIATELY scoot off at high speed as they're way more afraid of us than the other way around.
I respected 'em but I don't fear them. I am pretty careful about walking around here after dark bare footed however.
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