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?
You can smell them when you are within 20 - 30 feet. I've walked up to a tank, and knew there was one in a bush or at the edge of the water, and yes they will chase you, especially if you are near their nest. If you gutshoot one, it really stinks to high heaven.
The triangular head and the chunky size and dark coloration mean cottonmouth water moccasin to me. The habitat is critical, we don’t know how close your yard is to the water.
The underside of the head looks less triangular and more tapered and that means blacksnake. The uniform color with no variation or pattern means black snake. The fact it on land in a yard tends to mean blacksnake.
bottom line analysis from East Tennessee..... blacksnake
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That would be Headless deadicus
Genus is capatilized
Cotton mouth water moccasin
According to some here you should have hugged the wee snakie rather than “photographing” him.
Pretty misguided they are.
Because it was Water Moccasin, a poisonous snake.
No, they are absolutely right.
I'm a bad person. I'm going to pray to Gaia for forgiveness and plant flowers on
the spot where I cruelly and with malice destroyed an innocent friendly creature.
OK, saying that made me a little ill. Screw it.
I am what I am.
http://www.texassnakes.net/YellowBellied.htm
That’s my husband’s company website! :) And yes, the snake in the first post is the yellow-bellied water snake.
And no, the yellow does not extend that far down the snake's body.
Only about six inches or so below the head, which has a completely different shape.
It's a cottonmouth.
Y'all go ahead and respect 'em, I'll continue killing 'em.
The place where I was clearing that property was north of Huffman close to where luce bayou enters the lake. Snakes galore! Be careful, Killem all! Get you a 22 pistol.
My uncle has a place over on the lake by Huffman and he kills quite a few himself.
That's about two miles south on FM2100 from me.
looks like a indigo snake, its an endagered species, why did you kill it did it not use capital letters? now i dislike you even more
That was the whole point.
Once again, I win.
And your shift key seems to be malfunctioning.
The Texas Indigo Snake (Drymarchon corais erebennus) is a threatened species and is protected by the state of Texas. It is essentially a tropical animal and lengths of eight feet or more have been recorded. It is uncommon but regularly seen in far south Texas and it has been known to feed on other snakes, even rattlesnakes. The shot at left is of an indigo snake emerging from a rodent burrow in Kenedy Co., Texas in February, 2000. This particular animal was at least six feet in length and was studied for an hour or more
big TouGh Guy AFWAid Of A LiTTLe BiTTy SnaKe
How do you know that is the same snake? Head looks a lot different.
Looks like a water moccasin.
its an endagered species
No, we have plenty of them.
why did you kill it did it not use capital letters?
Gibberish your first language?
now i dislike you even more
Bonus?
MYOB, it is not gibberish, have you never seen humble gunner and fetish for correcting everyones punctuation and spelling
Totally different snake, by the way.
Not that I care. Any snake comes on my property is subject to death.
Send the thread several times if you wish.
Hey Eaker, do you even know this humblegunner person?
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