Copperheads Gather Early in Arkansas This Year

AP via Las Vegas Sun ^ | 8/16/05 | ANNIE BERGMAN

[countrydummy]

http://www.marshall.edu/herp/Old/copperhead.htm...:))

"Wonder if there has been a sighting of James Carville?"

ROFLMAO!!!

New River....Yikes!!!!!!

[SierraWasp]

Not with yer ol man!!! (grin)

[JockoManning]

Well, not glad to hear that. But congrats on your ability to interpret indicators. And by your FReeper page, I see you are in WI, making you a real expert on COLD weather. BTW, like that Gadsden flag too.

I don't like cold weather!

[drdemars]

As a youth in the late thirties I spent time on my Grandparent's farm in Kansas. August was a big time for Copperheads and water moccasins in the front yard and down by the pond. A pine tree in our yard got a lot of attention by snakes simply because of the bird nest high up in the limbs. Going after the eggs. I knocked one snake out of the nest when the birds we all a twitter.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'd forgotten about the turkeys and we have plenty here in the Missouri Ozarks.

[sneakers]

LOLOLOL!!! Good one!!

Thanks, I needed that!

[countrydummy]

WV........(yuck).....water moccasins!!!!!

[JockoManning]

Ugh. Snacking on eggs. Must have been quite a feeling to knock one down out of the tree.

[Tallguy]

Perhaps there are more snakes because of the decline of predators or something else that keeps them in check (disease?)

Or perhaps they are overpopulated due to an overabundance of food last year.

Here in the East we had the "Brood X" cicadas (also known as the 17 year locusts) last year. They were all over the place, but I don't know if they have such cicadas in Arkansas. If they do, and last year was their major hatch, there might have been a snake population explosion this year.

[ronnied]

was bill klinton one of them... havn't seen him in n.y. lately...

[JockoManning]

Good point. I can hear them right now, (the cicadas that is), but they aren't as loud as last year.

[FOG724]

Not with yer ol man!!! (grin)

Heck, I'm tougher than he is. ((grin))

[SierraWasp]

"((grin))"

Waszat? A double-wide grin???

[don-o]

They are gathing to talk about when they were so poor they didn't have a pot to hiss in.

The late Archie Campbell (Grand ol Opry and Hee-Haw) had a hilarious routine about this, except was a pit to hiss in.

[chief_bigfoot]

I'm amazed that this thread made it to post #75 without the obligatory,

WE'RE DOOOMED!!!

[gopheraj]

We saw a V of geese a couple of weeks ago flying south. I believe winter is comng early.