Does anyone know the species? He's sitting across the road from our driveway and my wife is terrified of him. Yeah, that's the ticket, he scares my wife. He's HUGH and SERIES, almost three feet long!
Posted on 05/14/2011 4:05:00 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
Does anyone know the species? He's sitting across the road from our driveway and my wife is terrified of him. Yeah, that's the ticket, he scares my wife. He's HUGH and SERIES, almost three feet long!
No he’s across the road, which is a woods, but very boggy and wet. There is a pond on our side of the road. I’m pretty sure it’s a northern watersnake. Anyway I warned my wife that they are nasty and told her it feeds on birds, including her beloved goslings (who will grow to defecate all over our driveway and yard) but she’s pledged to run him over next time she sees him to protect the little sh*tters.
Clearly a Copper-Headed Rattle Moccasin.
Looks like a Congressman to me. They’re all ugly, corrupt snakes.
“I don’t like Moccasins.”
Me either.
They hurt my feet.
Prefer running shoes!
:0)
I hear tell that they go so fast they make the electricity come sparking out of the earth so while you are writhing on the ground with the venom coursing through your body you are also being electrocuted. To add insult to injury the ground being charged like that attracts lighning.
And fry it up, yumm.
I’d say eastern king snake
My wife is pretty brave, but she’s afraid of snakes. Indeed, most of the women I know are. As a child, I was told this was inherited from Eve.
Venemous snakes of the U.S. (with coral snake being the exception) all have “cat’s eye” pupils.
Looks like a member of Congress, or maybe the Senate.
I’m the “snake wrangler” in our family. When we lived in our first house, somehow a garden snake got into the basement and confronted my wife when she was doing laundry. I happend to be home at the time, and for some reason, I knew from the scream that it had to be a snake. Even a boy growing up in Queens learns to handle garden snakes, I just scooped him up and tossed him in the flower garden.
One time, however, my daughter, about five at the time, came running into the front yard panting, “Get Daddy, get Daddy.” I knew that Mommy was the go to person for skin knees, or other emergencies, so I knew that there was only one possible emergency that required Daddy. Seems a hog-nose snake had come out of the wood pile next to the swing set where she had been playing. I wasn’t familar with the species and the SOB went into his king cobra act. I still scooped him up, but we writhed and twisted like crazy and bit me right though my gardening glove. That was it! No more Mr. Niceguy. I tossed him about twenty feet into the flower garden. (Normally, I’d just put them down gently.)
Toss some moth balls it’s way. 99.9 % it will head on to another location.
This is HUGH!
Boxborough, Massachusetts, 25 miles WNW of Boston.
Sorry. It's only half Kenyan Death Adder. The other half is North American Race Baiter. That makes it twice as poisonous, with an ugly disposition like that other well-known venomous Massachussetts snake, Barney Frank.
He just looks like a Herbert to me.
If he really lives in Massachusetts, it could be any member of the Mass. Congressional Caucus.
I tried to get my mother to let me bring home the class snake when I was in Jr. High. No go. The fact that I was standing there holding a 3 foot king snake didn’t sway her. :)
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