Snakes (Harrisville, Monongah, Man: high school, inspectors, to move)

[Newtgirl]

Originally Posted by atlantagreg30127

Hey, if I ever saw one of those in my yard I don't CARE where they originally came from. LOL

My boyfriend and I often talk about herping in GA/FL, just for the prevalence of exotic animals, like burmese pythons. To find a burm in the wild, I'd have to travel to SE Asia. Forget that, I can go to Florida!

[Retired Navy]

Originally Posted by Newtgirl

That's a burmese python. That's not a native.

And GHO, that's not true. It's really variable. They grow one segment longer every time the snake sheds, and break off randomly. It does not have anything to do with age or size.

Check this little fellow out.....he's native and he ain't no python!!

[Newtgirl]

That snake's around 6 feet long. The fact that it's on the end of a 4 foot snake hook held out from the guy's body makes it look a lot bigger. A big beautiful snake, but hardly something outrageously gigantic.

[Retired Navy]

Originally Posted by Newtgirl

That snake's around 6 feet long. The fact that it's on the end of a 4 foot snake hook held out from the guy's body makes it look a lot bigger. A big beautiful snake, but hardly something outrageously gigantic.

That's why I called him a "Little Fellow".. That particular snake was removed from a chicken house in Florida and relocated.. I've never seen a rattlesnake in the wild here in my neck of the woods but I've seen a lot of copperheads.

[Hinton Bound]

Originally Posted by Newtgirl

That snake's around 6 feet long. The fact that it's on the end of a 4 foot snake hook held out from the guy's body makes it look a lot bigger. A big beautiful snake, but hardly something outrageously gigantic.

Now Newt..., any time a man dangles his snake for public consumption, it is wholly impolite to charictarize it as anything BUT "outrageously gigantic". hehe

[Newtgirl]

Originally Posted by Hinton Bound

Now Newt..., any time a man dangles his snake for public consumption, it is wholly impolite to charictarize it as anything BUT "outrageously gigantic". hehe

I forgot about the 'man rules'.

That particular snake must've been well-fed. Mmmm chicken. And I didn't mean to belittle anything, believe me. A 6 foot rattlesnake's still a pretty big snake. It's a beaut, that's for sure.

So today I'm in Roanoke, and it's 60 and sunny. A perfect day for a snake chase! Wish me luck, and hope we don't find too many Dead-On-Road (DOR) snakes. Poor things.

[Retired Navy]

This is just too coincidental.....I came home from my Sunday poker game at the VFW yesterday to find my girlfriend in a total tizzy. Seems as if she heard our Bullmastiff, Beavis, barking and raising cain out in the breeze way. When she went to investigate, she found he had a 3 foot long copperhead cornered under a lawn chair. She said she was finally able to drag the dog away and into the house and went back and poured a bucket of cold water on the snake to scare it off!! She said it just coiled up tighter and stuck it's tongue out at her. She said she came back in the house and the snake slithered into the yard and back across the road into the woods. The more I laughed at her story the madder she got at me!!!

[Newtgirl]

We found a super-fresh DOR copperhead. Well, it hadn't been hit by a car. Oddly, only it's head had been crushed. Wonder how that happened...? Jerks.

[Hinton Bound]

Good info on Copperheads and their toxicity.

Copperhead Snakes

[Two-Rivers]

I had always heard that black snakes and copperheads did not get along. A couple of years ago my Uncle and I were talking and I mentioned that part of snake lore. He says, follow me, and walks me behind the barn to a pile of roof tin. He flips the pile over and there were black snakes and copperheads apparently co-habitating under the tin. Evolution maybe causing them to co-exist peacefully? I dunno. I thought maybe they hadn't had the chance to get down to business, but my Uncle said he discovered them several weeks before then.

BJC, the rattlesnake pic and description are forthcoming, I haven't forgotten your request, just having some technical difficulties with it. I shall not rest until I can post it. My copy was water damaged so I got a fresh copy, then my scanner decided it doesn't like WinXP.