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Snake Thread 2018

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Hard to tell from the video but nothing jumped out to me, that said water moccasin. I'm also watching on mobile so zoom is limited.
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I think I read on here, body below the water equals water snake.
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jpd301 said:



Not water moccasins. You would see more than just heads.
P.U.T.U
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Saw two blotched water snakes but showed the kids with me instead of pulling out my phone. Both about 3 feet long. Nice thing about our neighborhood is you can almost always find a snake if you know what to look for
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DatTallArchitect said:

jpd301 said:



Not water moccasins. You would see more than just heads.
I'm ignorant about snakes and learning more about them because of this thread. What would you see if they were moccasins?
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Moccasins float on top of the water. In fact, 12f mane or badace correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe all vipers float on top of the water. So all venomous snakes in Texas except coral snakes.
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Thank you
SteveBott
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This is how I remember the posts
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All of those are Nerodia aka water snakes. Hard to tell what species based on that video, but they definitely are not cottonmouths. In other words harmless and not venomous.
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This is generally true, but actually has more to do with the wider body shape of most vipers. They can and sometimes do swim under the water and younger/thinner specimens don't float as well as the larger, fatter adults.
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do alot of snakes that arent nerodia swim on top the water? During the floods, i saw a long and slender reddish snake hydroplaning faster than any snake id ever seen. I assumed it was a coachwhip or type of racer.
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Most non Nerodia snakes are not very comfortable in the water and try to stay on top of it if they can. Exceptions are some of the more semiaquatic species like ribbon and garter snakes. They often swim mostly submerged or entirely underwater to escape predators.
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MouthBQ98 said:

Dog got tagged by a copperhead on the back foot this morning. Looks like I missed one.

At least, I hope it was just a copperhead.

How's the pup?
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Ok. It swelled up and seeped blood around the bite a while, but the swelling stopped at the hock, and it's almost back to normal now. She's walking on it and not limping. She weathered it much better than when she got bit on the nose.
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Good to hear!
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ttha_aggie_09 said:

vander54 said:

Red and black friend of Jack.
Red and yellow kill a fellow.


Maybe they need this version:

Rojo y Negro amigo de Jack Pedro
Rojo y amarillo matan a un companero
FIFY!
I am not the Six Million Dollar Man, but I might need that surgery. "We have the technology, we can rebuild him!"
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Good friend of mine back in Bee County

Blue Indigo came out of the toilet

4stringAg
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That is one big turd.
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That's a girthy mofo there!
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AgEng06 said:

That's a girthy mofo there!
It just looks that way because her hands are smaller. Or at least that is what my wife tells me.
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I caught a little fella in one of MouthBQ98's minnow traps along the side of the house. Rough earth snake?





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Nevermind, you added pictures.
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TxLawDawg said:

I caught a little fella in one of MouthBQ98's minnow traps along the side of the house. Rough earth snake?








With that coloration and looking at that tail, I would almost think coachwhip or young racer of some sort. But I am sure the real experts will set me straight.
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Coachwhip, just a small one.

He was probably either after the whiptail lizard or regurgitated it.
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I didn't even consider that it might be a juvenile coachwhip. He was in the trap with the dead lizard. We have a ton of lizards around the house.

This is Lavaca County by the way. (I realized I failed to meet the posting criteria by not including the location in my original post.)
Badace52
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Coachwhips love to eat whiptail lizards. They'll eat almost anything they can catch, but they seem to prefer eating other reptiles.
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I totally thought it was a coachwhip, but am still nervous about my IDing. If I knew how to put in gifs there would totally be a "winning" gif here!
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No one cares if you're wrong... someone will correct you and it's the internet, so no awards or points to lose.
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I've been around TexAgs for a bit and just now discovered this thread. It's awesome!
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I recognized a coachwhip right away......since I posted a similar one last year and got edumacated here.
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Tony Franklins Other Shoe said:

I recognized a coachwhip right away......since I posted a similar one last year and got edumacated here.
To me, it is always that long slender tip to the tail and the sand color along with the braided appearance to the scales that tips me off. That is what made me think Coachwhip.
1990AG
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Even if you're right someone will correct you....
TxLawDawg
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I'm not sure how well this will work, but here's a video of the release. I'm not much of a videographer, but at least I held the phone the right way...

Scoopen Skwert
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Law don't go around here. Savvy?

Oh and nice pictures and video.
tx4guns
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Not my picture. Some disagreement in a FB group as to what this is. I think it's a coachwhip. What say you, experts?

 
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