Weekly snake thread

1075tech said:
It's 90° out, why are you wearing a coat?! 🔥
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For the same reason I was wearing gloves lol 😅, first time handling one that was still alive and didn't want to get bit.
Had to reach in and get him out of the coop, he didn't want to leave.
 
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Me. said:
By what, a spike-aerator? 😁 It only has that one little hole.


In my “perfect scenario”, a hawk grabbed it, and the snake bit the hawk, dropping the snake and killing the snake, but the hawk also goes off to die.



Unlikely, but I can wish.


Though I should be careful what I wish for, I don’t really want copperheads dropping out of the sky!
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The second “kiss” from the head and the section where the tail goes under are flat/wider than normal, probably got caught by 1 tire and crushed. I’ve run over enough that you can kinda recognize it after enough times 😂

The uh…. Hole on the bottom is the bootyhole.
 
CarolinaColtCollector said:
The uh…. Hole on the bottom is the bootyhole.
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Maybe it met the same fate as so many country chickens...
 
CarolinaColtCollector said:
The uh…. Hole on the bottom is the bootyhole.
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Birds know this their weak spot and will tear into it like fat kid to chocolate cake. So I suspect he has been hara$$ed lol. I've mostly seen it with mockingbirds and yellow rat snakes. I've saved 3 that were caught out in open grass and was getting ripped up by a couple of them. Birds caught a case of lead poison, and the snake was relocated to the brush.
 
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I was clipping along mtn biking tonight and this friendly fellow was in the middle of the single track. I was able to jump over him to avoid ruining his evening out. When I stopped for this picture, he said “thank you” in perfect english then slithered off looking for dinner.


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I was sleeping hard at 1130p the other night and my wife comes in the bedroom with the flashlight and says "you gotta get up now." I roll over with WTF is going on in my head. She says "there is a snake on the back porch". I say, OK, and roll back over. She says "no, you gotta get up and shoot it."

I tell her, no, he is just trying to rest like me, let's let it be until morning. NOPE, not going to happen. So, I say: what color is it. She says "snake colored".

OK, I get up and ask her to keep the dogs in the house while I go out and confront the intruder. I look in the corner and there is a skinny, 3 foot black snake curled up in the corner of the porch. I go over, poke him with my foot and then grab him by the tale. I walk him out the back door, through the fence and toss him out in the yard.
Come back in and go back to bed. Poor guy, he was just wanting to catch some peace like me. LOL.... "snake colored" .... I laugh every time I think about it.
 
Picture coming soon… guy cutting the grass across the street apparently chipped up a 4’ rattler with 12 rattles. I’ve seen plenty of Copperheads and shouldn’t be surprised since across the street is pine Forrest. But still, not cool. Lots of kids and pets.

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No picture but loading a truck today I had a juvenile cottonmouth drop out of a holly onto the trailer. The driver was closest to him and started heading the opposite way pretty quick. He wasn’t much more than a foot long.
 
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Mack270 said:
No picture but loading a truck today I had a juvenile cottonmouth drop out of a holly onto the trailer. The driver was closest to him and started heading the opposite way pretty quick. He wasn’t much more than a foot long.
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It’s baby season!
 
I'm relocating to RDU from the Pacific NW. You guys are NOT encouraging me ...

I hate snakes, triangular heads even more.
 
rodell said:
I'm relocating to RDU from the Pacific NW. You guys are NOT encouraging me ...

I hate snakes, triangular heads even more.
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Wear shoes and carry a flashlight if you’re outside at night from April to October.

Don’t reach down and turn things over or pick them up without checking first.

It’s really not that bad, especially around the triangle. They aren’t aggressive and are fairly easy to avoid.
 
Mack270 said:
Wear shoes and carry a flashlight if you’re outside at night from April to October.

Don’t reach down and turn things over or pick them up without checking first.

It’s really not that bad, especially around the triangle. They aren’t aggressive and are fairly easy to avoid.
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I've lots of experience with them having lived in Utah, hunted Montana & Idaho extensively, lived in FL, etc, but hate them nonetheless. It must be genetic, my Mom was exactly the same.

Maybe the Eastern fellas are more polite. I've never met a polite cottonmouth, though.
 
rodell said:
I've lots of experience with them having lived in Utah, hunted Montana & Idaho extensively, lived in FL, etc, but hate them nonetheless. It must be genetic, my Mom was exactly the same.

Maybe the Eastern fellas are more polite. I've never met a polite cottonmouth, though.
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I had a cottonmouth 6” away from my foot politely open his mouth to show his shiny fangs instead of biting me, so they are out there. Most might be ill-tempered jerks but some polite ones are out there haha
 
I’ve never really had a problem with a cottonmouth. We used to actively hunt them incidentally to frog gigging and I’ve stepped on a few and killed a bunch. Never had one that I would call aggressive. Did have one swim across a small pond at me but I was using a halogen spotlight and I honestly think he was coming toward that the way he acted.
The most “aggressive” snake I’ve run into is a red bellied water snake. They sometimes won’t back down though still I’ve never had one come after me.
 
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