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Old 07-17-2009, 03:15 PM
 
Location: some where maine
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maineah condas live in northern maine.
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Old 07-20-2009, 09:58 AM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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I have been seeing a great many Northern Red-bellied Snakes [Storeria occipitomaculata].

6 to 8 inches long, and fairly harmless.
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Old 12-04-2011, 09:20 AM
 
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I live in Merrill, Maine not too far north of Baxter State Park. We have moose, bear,coyotes, lynx, rarer Canadian Lynx and fishers..... some have even meandered up on our property and it is usually when you least expect it they appear these elusive animals. So dang rarely do I have my camera ready and at hand. Just this last spring we had 2 young bulls walking up our driveway in the early dawn by the time I grabbed the camera they were off loping back into the forest. Sightings of Moose are usually dusk and dawn and black bear dusk. The deer and bear love the wild apples so they frequent our rural area that is comprised of mixed forest and fields. We have sighted snakes similar in markings to timber rattlers but are garter snakes. My grandson said he saw a nice sized 5 footer running through our forest on Dudley Ridge this last summer. I have seen smaller sized garters that like the ledge areas. I for one am grateful there are no timber rattlers reportedly up in Aroostook county for I love to trudge unhindered in our forest. I use to live in California and rattlers were a problem for hikers I will never forget my startling experience stepping on a log in California's Plumas National Forest and hearing that familiar rattle and then seeing the snake...scary indeed thank goodness I stepped on the log not over that time! I know that snakes are excellent at keeping the rodent population at bay....but all the same I just HATE snakes! Hope they are right that poisonous snakes are extinct here for the canopy is so dense..hope greenhouse warming doesn't send them this way is all I can say!
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Old 12-04-2011, 01:40 PM
 
Location: Dade City, Fl.
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When I first moved into my camp and started doing post and sill work I discovered a family of snakes liviving under my place. No idea what variety but they were about a foot to a foot and a half long and up to 2 inches in diameter. They seemed harmless until I saw one climbing my exterior wall going towards an open window leading into the camp.....sorry end of the snakes....
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Old 12-07-2011, 05:06 AM
 
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Back in the early 80's I was at a small woods fire in August, and stepped on a snake. He bit thru my pants [no turnout pants then] and sank his fangs in my lower leg. I grabbed his head and another firefighter took him and hung on. He looked like a timber rattler and I looked at the bite, 2 holes in my leg. We got looking at him and he opened his mouth YUP he's a timber rattler alright. I ended up in the hospital sick as a dog for a few days but survived. They DO have Timber Rattlers in Sounthern Maine folks [just very rare.] The reason it didn't bother me when he struck is I've had snake hit me before [I lived in the woods as a child and had been bitten several times, guess I couldn't get the idea in my head to leave em alone]

Out here in Texas I don't mess with their snakes. [It's the scorpions I really hate]
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Old 11-02-2015, 11:14 AM
 
Location: SE WI
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To anyone that things garter snakes won't bite has never raked wild blueberries. When you step on them or rake into them by mistake they will strike. Perhaps not poisonous, but they leave a nice welt on your leg or arm regardless.
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Old 11-02-2015, 12:00 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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To anyone that things garter snakes won't bite has never raked wild blueberries. When you step on them or rake into them by mistake they will strike. Perhaps not poisonous, but they leave a nice welt on your leg or arm regardless.
Bite them right back then.
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Old 11-03-2015, 08:51 AM
 
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The garter snakes are also known to pee on you and it is nasty smelling. I don't have direct experience but a friend told me this. I have picked many snakes over the years and I have never been bitten or peed on. Now a lizard is a different story
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Old 11-03-2015, 09:10 PM
 
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Back in PA, I used to find big snake skins in the cabin. In the winter, we always knew when a snake had moved in with us. When we came out to the cabin on weekends and there were no mouse turds on the stove or sink....we knew why.

But they were black snakes.

They can be scary though. I saw one one time chasing something in the woods. It was shaped like an S with the head up about six inches from the ground, then a 90 degree bend on the snake body down the 6 inches, and then another 90 degree bend on the body and the rest of the snake. And it was moving at about a light jog. It was scary to look at even though it was harmless to me.
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Old 11-04-2015, 03:36 AM
 
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we don't have any harmful snakes...

the biggest snake I ever saw was at a golf course,,,and I killed it with my 5 iron...

something about snakes....I just either dislike/primal fear...
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