Snake ID Please

[Bill G]

A few years back a friend at his cabin called wanting to know what would cause a buzzing sound every time they got by the fridge. - Timber Rattler enjoying the warmth of the compressor - things got a bit exciting till it met its demise.

I had that years ago behind the deep freeze in the basement. Damned thing could be heard upstairs when the door was open. Well it has humanely dispatched.

 

[Bill G]

Statements are often easiest to make with no point, logic, or rational reasoning. These are generally, but not necessarily, driven by emotion, which is often irrational.

Those are the ones that score a zero on a exam. That is the mantra of the baffle with BS group.

 

[Bill G]

I had a rattler that liked living under /inside my outhouse at a former place. Good thing I don't often poop after 9am.

A rattler did kill one of my cats in my garden. That was a horrible day, but she wasn't responsive after a minute and dead in five or less. I watched the life fade from her eyes while holding her and telling how her much I loved her. But the rattler was either taken by surprise or defending itself from her. Thus is life.

Yes, might have got your seeds

 

[HumBurner]

Yes, might have got your seeds

My seeds aren't important, as I've never wanted children, but my vascular system is!

 

[SS396driver]

With all due respect if your statement of ......"Mice do no damage in the field" is true (not agreeing nor disagreeing) then why do we need snakes to control mice? You say they do no damage in the field thus no need to control them. The control of rodents(mice) is what snake lovers based their argument to save them on. I respectfully disagree with their basis.

Mice don’t do damage in the field when kept in check but if you let the population it will be a problem . I’m not a snake lover but I understand the nature has a way of controlling itself .

We have Eagles and Hawks that hunt in my fields . They eat snakes rats mice groundhogs and pretty much anything that moves . As soon as the above population can’t sustain them they move on to other hunting grounds and come back the following year .

Right now we have a rabbit problem way to many so I’m thinking the predators will be returning soon

 

[Blue Oaks]

Mice don’t do damage in the field when kept in check but if you let the population it will be a problem . I’m not a snake lover but I understand the nature has a way of controlling itself .

We have Eagles and Hawks that hunt in my fields . They eat snakes rats mice groundhogs and pretty much anything that moves . As soon as the above population can’t sustain them they move on to other hunting grounds and come back the following year .

Right now we have a rabbit problem way to many so I’m thinking the predators will be returning soon

I used to live on a couple acres surrounded by hundreds of acres of fields. There were a couple of palm trees that the owls lived in. Under the palms, there were hundreds of owl pellets (what's left of the mouse - https://www.birds.cornell.edu/k12/pellet-teaching-tips/). I still had to set mouse traps in the spring and summer, but it was comforting to know the owls were working the problem every night.

IMO as soon as an animal starts to cause harm it's a nuisance and is treated as such. Rattlesnakes and ticks are pre-judged and meet their maker as soon as possible.

Here's an oldie but a goodie of a Northern Pacific Rattlesnake that got way too close for comfort. I was holding the phone about six inches away from his head. You just know he can't strike, but you mind is screaming DANGER WILL ROBINSON!

Watch until the end...

 

[Bill G]

Which is also crazy. They hiss and can act scary, but don't like humans at all. They're pretty funny creatures, having had them in my compost and watched them up fruit trees.

My grandfather used to eat them occasionally as a kid, and squirrel, and rattlesnake, and hog-brain, etc....

My entire family has been trappers since we landed here before the bitter start. I grew up trapping and Dad and Grandpa would never harvest a possum as they had no value. I however saw the $3-$5 for a fleshed and dried hide as money I could earn so when I got one in a coon set I took it,.

My seeds aren't important, as I've never wanted children, but my vascular system is!

A lifetime of taking the seeds from hogs and cattle I will agree 100%,,,,,the vascular system is affected. I am amazed how we can put a bull in the head chute, use a Newberry Knife to slit the scrotum, drop the testicles, clamp them above the vas deferens with a two finger clamp which is attached to a cordless drill then twist them off. After all that he is a steer and walks over to the bunk and eats.

Anyone want a vid.



The epidural is only for the vid online

 

[Bill G]

Skip to 4:30 to see the screw.....

 

[Bill G]

Mice don’t do damage in the field when kept in check but if you let the population it will be a problem . I’m not a snake lover but I understand the nature has a way of controlling itself .

We have Eagles and Hawks that hunt in my fields . They eat snakes rats mice groundhogs and pretty much anything that moves . As soon as the above population can’t sustain them they move on to other hunting grounds and come back the following year .

Right now we have a rabbit problem way to many so I’m thinking the predators will be returning soon

How many Coyotes do you have?

 

[SS396driver]

How many Coyotes do you have?

Not many . Don’t know why but I haven’t seen or heard any in a while . Use to hear them at night after a kill a couple times a week . Several large black bears though almost hit one last weekend with my 68

 

[Bunxpar]

Opossums! They are the top or one of the top tick eating mammals in North America.

Right. But my thought on why they eat so many ticks is not that they search them out as prey, but that they have so many already attached to them. They don’t have to look far.

 

[sledhead34]

https://thepetenthusiast.com/snakes-in-texas/

NO THANKS SNAKES CREEP THE HELL OUT OF ME AND THE WORST WAY TO GO FROM A 2 INCH TALL REPTILE DAMN THAT WOULD PISS ME OFF

 

[HuskyShepherd2016]

Looks like some kind of grey runner/racer snake. There are quite a few non venomous snakes that look kinda generic like that.

 

[FLINT]

Found this guy hiding under some lumber. Not sure what it is. This is one I don't see around here.
Colored like a water moccasin but it's head doesn't look right. He was 36'' long.
Thanks in advance.

View attachment 1089475


View attachment 1089476


View attachment 1089478

Hello,

I'm not sure if you still want to know what kind of snake that is.

It is a plain bellied water snake.

I tried to read through all of the replies, but could only get through a couple pages of every possible snake related tangent, so I gave up and skipped to the end.

it is or was definitely not venomous. I read that this species spends a surprising amount of time on land for a water snake.

you can look up the species name to verify the ID, but I'm pretty sure it's correct. I'm a herpetologist, and while I live in VA and am not familiar with this particular species, I'm pretty good with snake ID.

 

[gumneck]

Came across this King yesterday. It seems to stay along the back ditch and tree line as I saw it or one like it last year. Great snake to keep around as they will choke a copperhead or rattlesnake to the bitter end(as it's a Colubrid). That's a win for me. Sun was at my back so may not show up well.

 

[gumneck]

I did I show you folks my rattler a couple years ago?

 

[gumneck]

I will take that as a no....so prepare to be disgusted

 

[gumneck]

You can count the buttons on that Timber no shoulders!

 

[Okie]

You can count the buttons on that Timber no shoulders!

I've seen Timber rattlers (also called velvet tail) in some area and the skin on the big en's just above the rattlers look like smooth velvet.
Rattlesnakes are born alive.

 

[Okie]

No venomous snakes in the house!!!
I don't go into their homes and they aren't welcome in mine.
The Doctor father of a girl I went to school with kept a basement full in cages as pets. EVERYTHING WENT ALONG FINE UNTIL THE DAY IT DIDN'T!!! Screw that!


Mike

I knew a guy that done the same with big diamond back rattlers until one day it happened.
When he walked by the cages they would be rattling and therefore he did not pay any attention and a big one had got out and got him on the leg just above the ankle. All he had for a leg from the ankle to the knee was just what looked like skin over the bone, no meat or muscle. He still liked rattlers and said he thought MAYBE he is now immune to their bites. I said, I'm from Missouri, show me. (and by the way, I do not help stupid people)