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What kind of snake is this?
Humblegunner's yard | 5/09/09 | humblegunner

Posted on 05/09/2009 5:27:52 PM PDT by humblegunner

This afternoon I happened to look out the back and saw something
black and long in the middle of the yard. I just mowed yesterday
so I knew the yard was free of sticks and such.

Turns out it was a big black snake!

He isn't a rattler, does not look loke a water moccasin or a black snake.

What the heck kind of snake is he? He has the triangular head which
means he is a bad one, but I can't place his breed.

Anyway, photography being as dangerous as it is, he got wrecked up some
which is just as well. He might have bitten one of the animals.

So who knows any herpetology?


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: assaultshovel; beneficialsnake; dead; herpetology; hgass; pestcontrol; snake; snakekiller
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1 posted on 05/09/2009 5:27:52 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Eaker; TheMom; thackney; Squantos; El Gato; Tijeras_Slim; eastforker; SouthTexas; mylife

Snake ping.


2 posted on 05/09/2009 5:28:35 PM PDT by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: humblegunner

Looks like a watersnake to me.


3 posted on 05/09/2009 5:28:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: humblegunner

cotton mouth?


4 posted on 05/09/2009 5:29:17 PM PDT by Revelation 911 (How many 100's of 1000's of our servicemen died so we would never bow to a king?" -freeper pnh102)
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To: humblegunner

One of your neighbors pet snake got loose and BOY is he gonna be mad at you!


5 posted on 05/09/2009 5:29:23 PM PDT by Mr. K (Is it too early to start calling this the “The Failed Obama Administration”?)
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To: humblegunner

The head looks like an arrow so it could be poisonous, its the wrong head for a harmless black racer.


6 posted on 05/09/2009 5:30:52 PM PDT by omega4179 (Boycott government communist tractor factories!)
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To: humblegunner

http://www.texassnakes.net/pictures.html


7 posted on 05/09/2009 5:30:58 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: humblegunner

http://www.wf.net/~snake/moccasin.htm

it looks especially dead in the last pic


8 posted on 05/09/2009 5:31:04 PM PDT by Revelation 911 (How many 100's of 1000's of our servicemen died so we would never bow to a king?" -freeper pnh102)
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To: humblegunner

Looks like a moccasin to me.


9 posted on 05/09/2009 5:32:08 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: humblegunner
Northern Black Racer snake, I think.
10 posted on 05/09/2009 5:32:21 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: humblegunner

headless deadicus


11 posted on 05/09/2009 5:32:34 PM PDT by databoss (Keep The Change....)
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To: humblegunner

What area of the country do you live?

I’ve always been told that cottonmouths are not found much above the fall line.


12 posted on 05/09/2009 5:32:35 PM PDT by BelleAl
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To: humblegunner

Knowing what region of the country, or the world for that matter, would help a great deal. :)


13 posted on 05/09/2009 5:32:53 PM PDT by MarineBrat (The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
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To: humblegunner

Based on your last photo that would be a dead snake.


14 posted on 05/09/2009 5:33:49 PM PDT by hatfieldmccoy (Satan has a new name and it is Islam)
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To: humblegunner

This might be it... see photo in the middle:

http://www.texassnakes.net/saltmarsh.htm


15 posted on 05/09/2009 5:33:57 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: MarineBrat

it is not a moccasin or even a water moccasin for sure.


16 posted on 05/09/2009 5:34:32 PM PDT by Qwackertoo (I'm passin' out ass whuppin's and lollipops and I'm all out of lollipops.)
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To: humblegunner

It could possibly be Zero, Reid, Pelosi, Durbin, or Murtha. Though your last pic indicates it probably is not or the L/MSM would be lamenting endlessly at this point.


17 posted on 05/09/2009 5:35:27 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (I still believe Duncan Hunter would have been the best solution... during this interim in time....)
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To: humblegunner

Do you mean to tell me you used mean, nasty assault shovel on that poor innocent-looking snake, who is, after all, only one of God’s creatures trying to make his way in a world overrun by we terrible humans?

Shame, SHAME, on you!

Regards,


18 posted on 05/09/2009 5:36:03 PM PDT by VermiciousKnid (Grab your gun and bring in the cat.)
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To: Revelation 911; humblegunner

Better photo and looks like you might have guessed it Revelation 911.

http://pictureloaders.com/images/texas-snakes-pictures-cottonmouth.jpg


19 posted on 05/09/2009 5:36:15 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: humblegunner
A snake that looks just like that got rid of my mole problem.

I hope he sticks around.

20 posted on 05/09/2009 5:36:25 PM PDT by sonofagun
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