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Badace52
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11:43p, 8/18/16
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Yeah I also don't know what that is but blotched water snake was my first instinct as well. Also that is a saltmarsh snake the guy found in Galveston crossing the street right?
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In reply to ttha_aggie_09 • 11:48p, 8/18/16
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Location is Needville
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7:32a, 8/19/16
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Young Blotched watersnake is correct but that is an atypical pattern in the anterior portion of that snake. Well done sirs.
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In reply to Badace52 • 7:33a, 8/19/16
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Yeah I also don't know what that is but blotched water snake was my first instinct as well. Also that is a saltmarsh snake the guy found in Galveston crossing the street right?
Correct on both
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10:12a, 8/19/16
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My neighbor is having an egg reduction problem.

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In reply to Sean98 • 11:57a, 8/19/16
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Escaped black mamba. I can only assume that whoever took that picture is now dead.
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12:18p, 8/19/16
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Was kicking some trash out of the way before mowing this morning and had a coral snake appear and start running for it. Dude was probably 18" long. Pretty Sure I wounded him good but he crawled into my neighbors backyard.
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2:29p, 8/19/16
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Killed on the border of our property and our neighbor's pasture. The dogs were going nuts.
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3:37p, 8/19/16
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Veranda and Cloudy Judgement are neighbors?
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In reply to Mostly Sunny Disposition • 4:03p, 8/19/16
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That's a big coral snake
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4:22p, 8/19/16
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That snake was in Magnolia
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In reply to Mostly Sunny Disposition • 4:33p, 8/19/16
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That snake was in Magnolia


who's magnolia?
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In reply to Some Junkie Cosmonaut • 4:59p, 8/19/16
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That snake was in Magnolia


who's magnolia?


One of your old college bicycles
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In reply to Mostly Sunny Disposition • 6:04p, 8/19/16
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college bicycles


i loved them all.





30 seconds at a time.
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Tony Franklins Other Shoe
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6:11p, 8/19/16
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I saw a small diamond back water snake along the SA River today. He was too fast and too spooked for me to get a picture, my first opportunity to contribute and he didn't cooperate. Juvenile, nice tan color.
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In reply to Tony Franklins Other Shoe • 8:00p, 8/19/16
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I saw a small diamond back water snake along the SA River today. He was too fast and too spooked for me to get a picture, my first opportunity to contribute and he didn't cooperate. Juvenile, nice tan color.
lots of lawyers on this board will be happy to write a polite-yet-firmly-worded letter to the snek about its failure to cooperate.
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5:09p, 8/20/16
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Can a snake be identified by the skin it leaves behind after it molts? Obviously no color pattern, but curious if the scales leave an identifiable pattern
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In reply to jefe95 • 5:24p, 8/20/16
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Some genre can be differentiated between from a shed snakeskin. I'm not sure if individual species can't be though, Probably by an expert...
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10:21p, 8/20/16
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some sheds are easier to identify than others
Outside of a Zoo, a Gaboon Viper hasn't been seen on this continent yet I recognize that color variation and would scream and run like a little girl.
Many Texas snakes have similar patterns that are muted by sheds, thus more difficult to identify.

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9:20a, 8/21/16
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Reading this thread has gotten me thinking about snake digestion. How do snakes handle the bones and fur or feathers of the animals they eat? Do they produce something similar to an owl pellet? Does it vary by snake?
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In reply to mrsbeer05 • 9:23a, 8/21/16
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Reading this thread has gotten me thinking about snake digestion. How do snakes handle the bones and fur or feathers of the animals they eat? Do they produce something similar to an owl pellet? Does it vary by snake?
They digest most of the bone and fur. Sometimes, a recognizable part of the animal digested (usually fur from my experience) will come out in the waste. But, most of the time, it is fully digested.
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1:14p, 8/21/16
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This needs to be cross-posted from the Tine board: Rattlesnake inside the Loop?
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1:51p, 8/21/16
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My response:

Just a ratsnake. There are no rattlesnakes in the loop and about 1% chance of one being within the beltway.
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2:03p, 8/21/16
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Giant snake skin found near river in Westbrook (Maine)

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In reply to ccard257 • 2:17p, 8/21/16
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Giant snake skin found near river in Westbrook (Maine)



Somebody's pet that they let go that will probably die during the winter when it gets too cold.
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2:29p, 8/21/16
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Saw my first coral snake yesterday, so beautiful. Was too busy getting my dog away from it to snap a pic
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2:47p, 8/21/16
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This is an old pic of a timber rattler on my lease in Tyler County a couple years ago. I couldn't find it for the longest time and just got it loaded to Pb.

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In reply to Mostly Sunny Disposition • 6:31p, 8/21/16
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That snake was in Magnolia


Where in magnolia?
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6:57p, 8/21/16
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Between 2978 and 1488
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7:47p, 8/21/16
Id? Caught in Tomball. I swear it's a corn but my buddy swears it a rat haha

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8:03p, 8/21/16
Rat snake. Rat and Corn snakes are in the same genus
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8:22p, 8/21/16
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Inside the loop that's a massasauga
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10:02p, 8/21/16
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So is the western rat snake the only subspecies of rat snake in Texas? And are the rat snakes in Texas mostly blackish or does it vary widely? I live in Deep East Texas, so wasn't sure if the eastern rat snake made it to my area.
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In reply to JD Shellnut • 10:12p, 8/21/16
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So is the western rat snake the only subspecies of rat snake in Texas? And are the rat snakes in Texas mostly blackish or does it vary widely? I live in Deep East Texas, so wasn't sure if the eastern rat snake made it to my area.
This is what I see around my place in BCS. These and various water snakes are pretty prolific. Occasionally I see a milk snake, speckled king, copper head, and the odd brown snake and garter snakes.

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