SNAKE !

tis the season ya'll ,let's SEE them , them there reptilian ones is out and about ...:popcorn
here is one for ya , these here snakes have one of them big old wive's tales that follow them around .
make a squirrel going up a tree look like a turtle for sure , fast a lightning no doubt about it , not dangerous ,but to be sure it is hard to get a view of them sometimes , the speed they leave the scene of the crime is amazing ....
seem to have really great eyesight as well ..... diurnal hunters is likely why ...day time snakes to say the least , never seen one after dark ...
western coachwhip is my guess , might be another one of that genus though , hard to say without handling it some and looking closer at it .:dono

Nice photo, but I’ll leave the handling to you!:Rofl We have some black snakes up at my RC field that live under our spare paving blocks, but I stay clear of them. We have water snakes a’plenty on my home creek. Sometimes there is a bunch perpendicular just at the shoreline lined up in a row. If only the little Minnie’s knew….
Bob

Buzz worm?

Keep ‘em down there buddy.

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Buzz worm?

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nope just a faster than a racer snake , they got a few old wive's tales about them ....
say they will bite there own tail and roll up like a hoop and chase ya down thing ....:Rofl

Attachment 424894Not sure what kind of snake this is but it didn't want to leave the path I was walking.

Jim, It would be welcome to it if I were walking by. Don’t like them critters! It was (I think) the only thing my mother would kill. She was death on snakes in the garden!
Bob

what kind of snake? (cobra)

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what kind of snake? (cobra)

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In my mom’s case, and it was unfortunate, it was usually a green garden snake. As I got older I tried to convince her they ate things and helped keep the garden clean of pests, but she wasn’t buying it!:Rofl
Bob

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In my mom’s case, and it was unfortunate, it was usually a green garden snake. As I got older I tried to convince her they ate things and helped keep the garden clean of pests, but she wasn’t buying it!:Rofl
Bob

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My Mom was the same way. It didn't matter that it was merely just a Garter Snake or DeKay's Brownsnake, to her it may just as well be a Rattlesnake .... and she was going after it, usually with a hoe :hatchet:

My wife broke her foot running from a hognose snake. Had snow on ground here today . No snakes
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Several years ago, I was anchored in my kayak, flipping a beadhead nymph under a strike indicator for bluegill. The sun was shining, and I was daydreaming just enjoying the quiet. Looked down and this guy was slithering his way over the front to join me. Hes only a yellow racer but still and not poisonous but non the less not invited on board.
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I like them at a distance. :biggrin

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

I like them at a distance. :biggrin

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Me too! I see water snakes on my home stream all the time and give them a wide berth. My best story was fishing a deep pool and then I heard a tremendous ruckus an lo and behold a big water snake had wrapped around a small catfish and was heading for shore. The wrestling continued into the weeds 10 feet stream side and after a minute or so everything got very quiet. It had caught some meal. I just quietly waded on. None of my bidness !;)
Bob

I grew up in water Moccasin country. Any snake in the water gets a second look