Weekly snake thread

I dunno, @BBD280 , it looks like a Shelby Cobra to me!
 
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On the road...he was hiding his head. Not sure if it had been hit. Had the tail puffed and flat and tip in the air.

Another from further away...not a big one, but big enough!!!
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Agreed, but when do they get rattles? This one looks like it has them but my son had a closer picture and those aren’t, at least not yet. It is certainly raising the tail like one though!
 
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On the road...he was hiding his head. Not sure if it had been hit. Had the tail puffed and flat and tip in the air.

Another from further away...not a big one, but big enough!!!
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Timber rattlesnake. A young one. When they get older the color will darken starting at the tail to where the snake is almost black
 
Agreed, but when do they get rattles? This one looks like it has them but my son had a closer picture and those aren’t, at least not yet. It is certainly raising the tail like one though!
I think their rattles progress as they shed. I think they get a rattle when they shed after they reach breeding age
 
I don’t think I’ve seen a snake around the house all year, the voles are really tearing the place up. Have had lots of families with small children move into the neighborhood, wonder if they’ve been helping with the snake “problem”
 
Anybody have any idea what kind this is? Found it in my den tonight.
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After finding a DeKay's brown snake in my yard last year, I did some research. They like to eat slugs, which I happen to have a lot of so a good snake to have around the house under the deck.
 
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He was pissed as a I interrupted his afternoon siesta. His sentence was exercised upon trying to bite me.
 
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Too bad... ya kilt a good'un!

I’m sure that I did... I didn’t want to do it, but also didn’t want to let an undesirable living in my yard if he was such... I have too many kids and dogs to worry about finding it.
 
I think this is a baby rat snake in the bucket? I found it sunning itself on my deck yesterday about 3' from the sliding glass door, I always tell my wife to never leave the door open longer then it takes to walk through it or someday she will find critters in the house.


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I suspect this is momma. Found it about a week ago sunning on the cement slab next to the deck, I swear it is every bit of 6'. My deck is attached to the house and is closed of with lattice, I'm starting to wonder is the lattice is giving the snakes protection from predator's and this has become their mating and laying area. Maybe the lattice has to go?


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Is it guud ruck when the 1st snake seen for the year a beauty? This 2’ king was sunning in the driveway a couple days ago. They’re so calm, even when warm, never even threatened to bite or musk when I picked him up. Damned covid, I wanted my grandsons to hold him as well.
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When I put him down in the woods, I understood why I very rarely see them. I would have thought the glossy black and whitish stripes would make him stand out, nope.
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I think this is a baby rat snake in the bucket? I found it sunning itself on my deck yesterday about 3' from the sliding glass door, I always tell my wife to never leave the door open longer then it takes to walk through it or someday she will find critters in the house.


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I suspect this is momma. Found it about a week ago sunning on the cement slab next to the deck, I swear it is every bit of 6'. My deck is attached to the house and is closed of with lattice, I'm starting to wonder is the lattice is giving the snakes protection from predator's and this has become their mating and laying area. Maybe the lattice has to go?
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Yes, they’re black rats, NO, they don’t need to go. When the food supply is gone, there will be as well. They’re not poisonous or aggressive. They’ll eat mice, rats and poisonous snakes. Relocate them if you’ve chicks.
20+ years ago we had feed in a detached shed. Mice got into it, so I put down poison. Christmas Eve came and we pulled the toys out of the attic collected for the boys. The toys were filled with bright green poison pellets that looked like candy :eek::eek:
From then on I kept a cloth sack and leather gloves in the truck. Put a 5’+ black rat in the shed, never saw him or droppings again. I still bring rat snakes home to release around the house.
 
This one was in front of my mailbox Monday. I finished him off but someone had already hit him.
 

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Not with good snakes like those usin' it!


I don't mind rat snakes and black racers around the house. I've lived in this house for 7 years and have a large rat snake living in the basement, I find one or two shedding's per year always in the same location I assume it likes being near the hot water line.

I just had never seen a baby and wanted confirmation is was in fact a rat snake.
 
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Is it guud ruck when the 1st snake seen for the year a beauty? This 2’ king was sunning in the driveway a couple days ago. They’re so calm, even when warm, never even threatened to bite or musk when I picked him up. Damned covid, I wanted my grandsons to hold him as well.
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When I put him down in the woods, I understood why I very rarely see them. I would have thought the glossy black and whitish stripes would make him stand out, nope.
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i REALLY want some kings at my house! i have too many copperheads!
 
We’re excited, I carried him in the direction he was headed on the other side of the yard. Hopefully it’ll find a local mate.
 
I wonder what happened to all the Kings? I used to see them all the time when I was a kid. Now I see one or two a year at the most.
 
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