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May 8th, 2009
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| I had a visitor today.
We had fire ants last year and I was out dosing the few hills I found when I absolutely walked up on a snake. He didn't more, just laid there and i ran to get my camera (now you KNOW i don't have any sense) and took his pic. Turns out it is a speckled King snake, very pretty and non-venomous. He was black with tiny yellow dots on him and about two foot long.
Here is his pic, it's not very good because he was laying in the grass and not in the mood to pose 
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May 8th, 2009
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| Oh wow, he really is attractive. | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| His coloring is beautiful. Glad you didn't step on him. lol | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| Cool.
You think you've got no sense. I'd have picked the thing up if it was in a friendly mood. I also make it a point to know about poisonous animals in areas that I am likely to run into them, and would not go near a venomous snake.
And if you think I've got no sense, I've seen people prodding at a black snake in FL, trying to figure out if it was a cottonmouth or the non-poisonous mimic. | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| Cool little visitor! Glad he came to see you and not me lol | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| ewwwwwww ...great colors but ewwwww LOL | |
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May 8th, 2009
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Originally Posted by sirdarksol  Cool.
You think you've got no sense. I'd have picked the thing up if it was in a friendly mood. | I know what you mean I have a habit of doing things like that too but hubby would freak(he doesn't do snakes well) when he found out and I would just HAVE to tell him when he gets in from work. So I was a good girl and just took his pic. He wasn't scared or aggressive in any way. Guess he knows we make it a practice to let all the critters on our property be.
Yes Lucy glad I didn't step on him also he might have been a bit peeved
Wasn't sure what he was until I checked our states snakes for ID but his nose was shaped all wrong to be venomous.
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May 8th, 2009
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| Wow what a pretty snake  I love observing snakes from afar....but I would have freaked if I had walked up on him, lol | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| WOW..Very pretty snake but Me and your husband have something in common..lol..Me and snakes don't go well together, usually ends with me running as fast as I can in the opposite direction hoping and praying they aren't chasing me...lol..I'm impressed that your soo brave. Braver then me anyway...Thanks for sharing, Pics of snakes are great. | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| He's soooooo cute! I would have kept him as a pet! LOL | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| Shawnie u afraid of snakes too.
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Originally Posted by Shawnie ewwwwwww ...great colors but ewwwww LOL |  haha . you like this one?  Like the colors of the King snake. Cool. | |
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May 8th, 2009
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Originally Posted by pinkfloydpuffer He's soooooo cute! I would have kept him as a pet! LOL | Nope have to leave him in the yard to do his job
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May 8th, 2009
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| Wow, what a beautiful snake! | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by sirdarksol Cool.
You think you've got no sense. I'd have picked the thing up if it was in a friendly mood. I also make it a point to know about poisonous animals in areas that I am likely to run into them, and would not go near a venomous snake.
And if you think I've got no sense, I've seen people prodding at a black snake in FL, trying to figure out if it was a cottonmouth or the non-poisonous mimic. | Best way Ive seen to tell if its a cottonmouth is to prod it. They are all bark and no bite. I once heard about a group of college kids that thought they were catching black snakes in what my uncle called "the bottoms" or for you non-kentuckians a swamp. They caught about 115 in about 2 hours before my uncle got down there to warn them there were cottonmouths in the area. They were all cottonmouths and no one got tagged.
This reminds me I need to go back down there and dredge the cut in the land to see if I cant net any cool prehistoric fish that hatched out from some old nest. They called them black fish, but they looked sort of like a celacamp (sp?). I will try and get down after I get married and see what I cant turn up, Ive caught dozens on artificial lures and threw them back before I got interested in aquatic animals. | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| Hubbys home now and reminded me of when we first got married 40 some odd years ago (and not as versed in the out doors as I am now ) when picking up large rocks around a new house and the jar of fishing "worms" I had waiting for him when he got home from work. They turned out to be copperhead babies  who knew! boy did I hear it
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May 8th, 2009
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| Oh my goodness Carol..lol..that is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.ROFL...Good thing that mama copperhead wasn't around while you were snatching up her babies. | |
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| }[quote=CHoffman;591463.Good thing that mama copperhead wasn't around while you were snatching up her babies.[/quote]
Don't we know it! At that time I was a city girl and didn't know the difference LOL
Navyscuba- Yes i like that
Last edited by Butterfly; May 8th, 2009 at 06:52 PM.
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Originally Posted by KyWildFish Best way Ive seen to tell if its a cottonmouth is to prod it. They are all bark and no bite. | They may be pretty laid back as far as snakes go, but they're far from "no bite." Any snake that is bothered may bite. There are generally a few cottonmouth bites reported in Florida every year, and, since stepping on a cottonmouth rarely results in a bite, I'd bet that purposeful aggravation or even handling are the most common causes. Even the most good-natured snake will take a shot at someone who is really bothering it, and, like our fish, each snake is an individual. There's no way of knowing if the snake had already been pestered that day, or if it is just in a foul mood for no reason.
Unless you're an expert who needs to identify a potentially venomous snake, the best method of dealing with such a creature is to leave it alone. | |
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May 8th, 2009
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Originally Posted by Butterfly Hubbys home now and reminded me of when we first got married 40 some odd years ago (and not as versed in the out doors as I am now ) when picking up large rocks around a new house and the jar of fishing "worms" I had waiting for him when he got home from work. They turned out to be copperhead babies who knew! boy did I hear it
carol | OMG that is hysterical They must have been really little, lol. I'm glad nothing bad happened. | |
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May 8th, 2009
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| The copperhead story is really funny, and I'm really glad nothing bad happened.  | |
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Originally Posted by sirdarksol The copperhead story is really funny, and I'm really glad nothing bad happened. | whew! Me too They were about the size of earthworms. I knew what earthworms were because dad had a worm box . Evidently I didn't know well enough LOL
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May 8th, 2009
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| That's one of our babies.
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Navyscuba- Yes i like that | Yeap tha's one of our babies. | |
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May 9th, 2009
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| he has gorgeous coloring! i really like snakes, but i think i prefer them in pictures and when i know for sure what kind and if it's venomous or not than anything else... | |
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