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Finn Maccumhail
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In reply to ttha_aggie_09 • 9:05a, 10/1/17
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Yeah, it would be a timber. It's not really a habitat question for me, it's range. We're surrounded by a 4100 acre pine plantation that will eventually be developed but that's still a ways off (I've seen a fat, healthy 10pt running around the edges of this), a 300+ acre park that's got minimal improvements, another 300+ acre nature park, and a 1400 acre wetlands mitigation bank.

Look at Summerwood to the south and east and you'll see what I mean.

Anyway, the point is I didn't think timber rattlers came over here. And westerns definitely aren't here.
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10:10a, 10/2/17
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Here are the 2 snakes that have the hens all riled up.



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In reply to Finn Maccumhail • 10:42a, 10/2/17
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Finn Maccumhail said:

Anyway, the point is I didn't think timber rattlers came over here. And westerns definitely aren't here.
I don't believe there any recent records for timbers in that general area (Lake Houston) but the habitat seems to be there. They don't do well with encroachment and will be gone from Harris County very soon, I'd imagien as soon as all the non-protected green spaces are housed up.
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1:43p, 10/2/17
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Found this little guy while mowing just now...
Georgetown, TX


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Finn Maccumhail
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In reply to Badace52 • 3:48p, 10/2/17
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Miniature Texas brown mamba. You're lucky to be alive man.
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7:39p, 10/2/17
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Holy balls. That's a big ass snake.
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In reply to Badace52 • 9:47p, 10/2/17
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You have an incredible amount of hair on your wrist.
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In reply to agcrock2005 • 10:16p, 10/2/17
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Don't I know it...
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In reply to GinaLinetti • 10:19p, 10/2/17
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That's probably a 5-5.5' snake.
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In reply to ttha_aggie_09 • 11:41p, 10/2/17
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I had a person knowingly bring me a 1.5', live copperhead in a ziplock baggie.
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In reply to ursusguy • 11:49p, 10/2/17
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ursusguy said:
I had a person knowingly bring me a 1.5', live copperhead in a ziplock baggie.


I guess I should be shocked but I know two things for sure.

One, stupidity is almost an epidemic nowadays.

Two, if anyone would have a venomous snake brought to them in a plastic bag, it would be you.
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In reply to ursusguy • 6:49a, 10/3/17
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ursusguy said:
I had a person knowingly bring me a 1.5', live copperhead in a ziplock baggie.
You seem to collect lots of things in baggies.
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In reply to ttha_aggie_09 • 7:08a, 10/3/17
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Work as a wildlife biologist over a largely urban area (call it 10 counties) for 12 years, you see lots of wildlife related stupidity.
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In reply to Mathguy64 • 7:09a, 10/3/17
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They are handy.
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11:05a, 10/3/17
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Had some shredding done at the family land, where I dove hunt. Guy running the shredder hit something, it was fairly loud, and about 2 minutes later, when he clears the area, we notice this:

https://imgur.com/a/eStO2

We never found the head, but this piece of the body was about 4 feet long, and about 6-8 inches around at the widest point where it got cut by the blade. It was a fat snake for sure.

Anyone have an ID for it? Sorry the pic doesn't quite do justice to the colors. I have a few more pics I will look for.

I was guessing bull snake or water snake. Without the head, I can tell for sure it's not a copperhead, coral, king, or rattler, but that's as far as my snake knowledge goes.

Just realized I haven't tried to post pics before....there must be a tag I am missing.
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In reply to Aggieangler93 • 11:08a, 10/3/17
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you need the .jpg link, not just the link to the page

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In reply to AZAG08 • 11:09a, 10/3/17
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Thanks! I think I get it now......


TEST

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In reply to Aggieangler93 • 11:30a, 10/3/17
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Diamondback water snake.
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In reply to Aggieangler93 • 11:54a, 10/3/17
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Diamondbacks Water Snake

Edit - Way behind BadAce on this one... he got it already
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12:17p, 10/3/17
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Thanks for the ID. We found another chunk of meat off this bad boy (girl?), and it was a foot in length with no reduction in girth on either end. I am wondering how long the entire snake was? I bet he was feasting at the tank, with the amount of mice and bullfrogs we have around there.

I would bet this snake was somewhere around 7-8 feet but no way to tell...
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In reply to Aggieangler93 • 12:21p, 10/3/17
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Aggieangler93 said:

I would bet this snake was somewhere around 7-8 feet but no way to tell...
Definitely not, but maybe close to 5'
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In reply to 12f Mane • 4:15p, 10/3/17
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I was guessing larger, as we had 5 feet of it, without the head. I guess it would make sense that not much of the body was poking up into the shredder when the head got lopped off. Thanks for the guesstimate.
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In reply to Aggieangler93 • 8:52p, 10/4/17
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Aggieangler93 said:
Thanks! I think I get it now......


TEST



Fine specimen of the elusive headless nope rope.
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9:41p, 10/4/17
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This was just posted on the neighborhood facebook group
"...It has markings like a moccasin"
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In reply to AZAG08 • 9:48p, 10/4/17
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At least they measured it... now it's just a 3ft Cobra
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In reply to ttha_aggie_09 • 9:49p, 10/4/17
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Well we are in Needville.....home of the wild cobras (or at least one from last year)
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10:19p, 10/4/17
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Well technically it is a moccasin, but it is not a venomous snake.
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In reply to Badace52 • 10:35p, 10/4/17
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I suppose moccasin is synonymous for water snake, so true.
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In reply to AZAG08 • 10:53p, 10/4/17
AZAG08 said:

"...It has markings like a moccasin"
reminds me of my mother. "that looks like a pointed head" she says a few weeks ago while pleading with me to kill the distressed yellow belly.
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In reply to Serious Lee • 4:27a, 10/5/17
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Uncle Gunnysack said:
AZAG08 said:

"...It has markings like a moccasin"
reminds me of my mother. "that looks like a pointed head" she says a few weeks ago while pleading with me to kill the distressed yellow belly.
I do my best to not kill snakes, but eff yellow belly water snakes. They are such a-holes
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In reply to Serious Lee • 9:36a, 10/5/17
Uncle Gunnysack said:
AZAG08 said:

"...It has markings like a moccasin"
reminds me of my mother. "that looks like a pointed head" she says a few weeks ago while pleading with me to kill the distressed yellow belly.


I used to bring my mom grass snakes and she would flip out saying it could be a baby rattler. She did spend three weeks in the hospital as a kid after getting bit by a baby rattler. That made it more entertaining.
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Finn Maccumhail
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In reply to ttha_aggie_09 • 9:56a, 10/5/17
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ttha_aggie_09 said:
I suppose moccasin is synonymous for water snake, so true.

Maybe I'm ignorant but I've never heard or thought of moccasin as being synonymous with water snake. It was always synonymous with cottonmouth. Water snakes were water snakes be they diamond-backed, broad banded, etc but water moccasins were never anything but synonymous with cottonmouths.
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In reply to Finn Maccumhail • 10:03a, 10/5/17
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Didn't mean this comment literally. Was just referring to the fact that most water snakes are labeled as moccasins nowadays.
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Finn Maccumhail
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In reply to ttha_aggie_09 • 10:12a, 10/5/17
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ttha_aggie_09 said:
Didn't mean this comment literally. Was just referring to the fact that most water snakes are labeled as moccasins nowadays.

Gotcha. I misunderstood your point but you're definitely correct that a vast number of dumbasses out there automatically assume every snake in the water is a deadly, poisonous*, highly aggressive moccasin.


























*purposely used poisonous instead of the correct venomous.
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In reply to Finn Maccumhail • 11:56a, 10/5/17
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Here
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