That'll just be your little secret.
Bad year for snakes
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That'll just be your little secret.
Ddaddy
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Whatever.... he got the jist even if used the wrong term, FFS.
I'm not a herpetologist. LOL
I'm not a herpetologist. LOL
Ddaddy
I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
He didn’t get the terminology wrong, just the concept. Snakes don’t den up together at this time of year. No point in looking for a bunch of them together somewhere...because they aren’t.
They are all off on their own.
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Those rattlers are scary, for sure!!!
It's been a bad year for snakes in Georgia too. We've see about 8 of these Rat snakes around the house this year. This one was in our front yard and was about 5 foot long. They do no harm and are good to have around so we let 'um go.
It's been a bad year for snakes in Georgia too. We've see about 8 of these Rat snakes around the house this year. This one was in our front yard and was about 5 foot long. They do no harm and are good to have around so we let 'um go.
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yellow rose
Overnight Sensation
Good thing you ain't a herpetologist. It takes several shots to clear that stuff up.
jos51700
Green Bearing thread connoisseur
I guess nobody told those snakes how many of their kind Walt Self had dispatched in his time. He used to have a medicine bottle in the gun cabinet full of rattles, before the flood.
mopar head
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Few weeks ago I stepped out on the side steps sat down, smoking, reading stories on the phone. When finished 7 or so min. later this bugger was about 12" away from me the whole time I guess, I was like you bastid. I was feeling unusually compassionate for life at the moment and decided a plan to sweep it into a small bucket and toss it out to the woods.
It was not cooperative, so I shooed it out to the front yard and gave up, only to slice n dice it with the mower a half hour later. Oh well I tried to be a good boy. LOL
About a 3' er garter snake. A toad got the same treatment 2 passes later, ha
It was not cooperative, so I shooed it out to the front yard and gave up, only to slice n dice it with the mower a half hour later. Oh well I tried to be a good boy. LOL
About a 3' er garter snake. A toad got the same treatment 2 passes later, ha
I lived on a ranch on the north end of White Sands NM. 35 miles to the nearest town.
My Saluki would kill rattlers and coyotes. He would hunt them alone and bring me parts an place them on the front porch of the ranch house.
I don't know what you know about snakes but when they shed their skin, they give off a cucumber odor.
There was a valley southwest of the house that when the wind blew the wrong way you would smell them.
We never ran cattle in that area during the summer.
The ranch started at the 20 mile marker and went to the 44 mile marker and was from 3 to 8 miles wide the whole way across.
I loved that place but it had some big snakes.
My Saluki would kill rattlers and coyotes. He would hunt them alone and bring me parts an place them on the front porch of the ranch house.
I don't know what you know about snakes but when they shed their skin, they give off a cucumber odor.
There was a valley southwest of the house that when the wind blew the wrong way you would smell them.
We never ran cattle in that area during the summer.
The ranch started at the 20 mile marker and went to the 44 mile marker and was from 3 to 8 miles wide the whole way across.
I loved that place but it had some big snakes.
Twice when building hiways that i know of a dozer ripped open a snake den. Once on hiway 380 in the Malaphi near Carrizozo NM.
And once while widening I-10 in southwest NM near the AZ state line. that one they drove up to the hole an dropped Dynamite into it.
I've killed two this year. Seen multiple others. Snakes in the wild don't bother me. Snakes around the house, my dog, and 2 small kids do bother me. I have no idea what kind they are. The first one was pretty good size and wouldn't leave so it got shot. The second was VERY aggressive and was actually striking at me. It was fairly small, maybe 10-12 inches. It got chopped up.
My son got this one a couple days ago near his house in Western PA. I mostly see Black Rat Snakes where I'm at. Took the head off a 5 footer last month mowing the edge of the field down back.
We only have timber rattlers and cotton mouths up here, luckily I haven't seen any of them...
Just garter snakes here.
I can live with those.
I dont mow short enough to chop em up,but if i see a mouse,deck drops and i run em down. I hate meeces to pieces...
Couple years ago it was so dry the cracks were big enough they had tunnels to run in. Was difficult to get them.
I can live with those.
I dont mow short enough to chop em up,but if i see a mouse,deck drops and i run em down. I hate meeces to pieces...
Couple years ago it was so dry the cracks were big enough they had tunnels to run in. Was difficult to get them.
999yards
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Killed three copperheads in the last five weeks. Another got away when he came up under my tractor and we both went in opposite directions. I'll be getting him later.
This is the worst year I've seen so far as well.
This is the worst year I've seen so far as well.
mopar head
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I would not step foot on this place, where ever it is, me no understandy.
MileHighDart
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I’m with you on that one. Them snakes are fast and they seem to be everywhere
Back in Time
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mopar head
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pishta
I know I'm right....
J.E.S.T. at Cubi Pt? I was stationed there for 18 months. B Co. Marine Barracks. Seen my share of friggin huge snakes over there. We saw one one night that spanned the entire 2 lane road back in the Naval Magazine. We ran it over in an old IH box truck and it was still slithering. Man, I spent hundreds of nights sleeping in that jungle with nothing but a pancho under me or over me. Yeesh!
pishta
I know I'm right....
Ask this family...must have been that time of the month.....thousands of Garter snakes in a house!
Ddaddy
I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
If they did, there wouldn’t be any more snakes. We have nearlyeradicated every human predator there was (other than ourselves) and snakes that were are as aggressive toward us at those were toward the iguanas would have wound up as the main course...until there were none left.Imagine a world if they went after us hoomans like that
Ddaddy
I'm changing the World... one pixel at a time!
Like I said...Spring mating. Thats what snakes do and then when they are done...they go their separate ways and strike out on their own during Summer.
famous bob
mopar misfit
I posted the story about the rat snake I saw when burning a brush pile a few yrs. back. Affter the brush pile quit burning, I went over and measured the distance between the edge of the brush plie and the weeds on the edge of the adjacent creek . It measured 9ft 1", and I swear the black rat snakes head was in the weeds before his tail came out of the brush pile at the north end before the fire got there. There were 2 huge field rats that came out before him, they are what got my attention to start with.Used to think about that thing every time I mowed back there for a few yrs.
Haven`t seen him since.
mopar head
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Who wuda thunk?
Two Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Garter Snakes
Two Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Garter Snakes
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