ellebee said:zooguy96 said:ellebee said:Bobcat-Ag said:Ok, so you're saying that the snake is not poisonous?ellebee said:ttha_aggie_09 said:
Just did and my batteries were dead. Replaced and up and running now.
I figured they just needed replacing.
Definitely poisonous
Definitely not poisonous. Highly venomous though.
You're better than this...
I think they get darker with age.4stringAg said:
Yeah, he was pretty pissed too and buzzing. There was a big log pile nearby so figured that's where he lived and he was just out by the road getting some sun. We were at the in-laws cabin in upstate PA and driving up the shale road to go back to the cabin and we almost ran over him with the truck so he wasn't too happy.
My F-I-L does a wildlife calendar every year with animals he catches on the game cams he places around the property and he's been wanting to get a good pic of a rattler so we stopped and he got his big camera with zoom lens out and snapped some pics while I took some with my phone.
I've seen a few of these "black phase" timber rattlers up there but have yet to see a good "yellow phase" one.
Well, there are a bunch of these timber rattlers up there on my in-laws mountain in PA. (I think they might be protected species though). A surveyor from a gas company was on the property a couple years ago looking at sites for a gas well and he said it was the "snaky-ist" mountain up there he'd ever been on. Its a minor miracle with all the yahoo in-laws up there running around that they've never had anyone get bit.JSKolache said:I think they get darker with age.4stringAg said:
Yeah, he was pretty pissed too and buzzing. There was a big log pile nearby so figured that's where he lived and he was just out by the road getting some sun. We were at the in-laws cabin in upstate PA and driving up the shale road to go back to the cabin and we almost ran over him with the truck so he wasn't too happy.
My F-I-L does a wildlife calendar every year with animals he catches on the game cams he places around the property and he's been wanting to get a good pic of a rattler so we stopped and he got his big camera with zoom lens out and snapped some pics while I took some with my phone.
I've seen a few of these "black phase" timber rattlers up there but have yet to see a good "yellow phase" one.
I'd really like a pair of timber ratt boots, but they aren't as common as diamondback. Hell even Mexican pointy head-on rattler boots are more common than timber.
Yeah, but there are a lot of "hey, hold my beer" types in my wife's family up there.zooguy96 said:
It's really not. A rattlesnake's first instinct is not to bite; it is to remain still or get away. Biting is usually a last resort.
Or, at least in my experience with rattlers.
4stringAg said:Yeah, but there are a lot of "hey, hold my beer" types in my wife's family up there.zooguy96 said:
It's really not. A rattlesnake's first instinct is not to bite; it is to remain still or get away. Biting is usually a last resort.
Or, at least in my experience with rattlers.
The VAST majority of people who present to the ER with a venomous snake bite are intoxicated. They either stumble into the bushes drunk and step on one (usually on the way to relieve themselves) or purposefully mess with a snake while drunk.zooguy96 said:4stringAg said:Yeah, but there are a lot of "hey, hold my beer" types in my wife's family up there.zooguy96 said:
It's really not. A rattlesnake's first instinct is not to bite; it is to remain still or get away. Biting is usually a last resort.
Or, at least in my experience with rattlers.
LOL, I was told by the lead t-sip Herpetologist that most people get bitten in situations like that. I don't think it's far from the truth.
Yeah, all the warm and fuzzies about how beautiful snakes are went away after looking at those pics.AgEng06 said:
That first water bottle pic is terrifying.
Kool said:
A work friend of mine just returned to work after being bitten on the hand by a copperhead that was camped out inside some plastic water bottles inside his house. He had previously poked a hole in the plastic wrapping, was getting out a bottle near dusk and got tagged in the hand. I've got photos of his hand in various states of swelling and eventual skin slough after four vials of antivenom, and the snake that got him. He's just been back to work for a couple of weeks but still has skin loss and nerve damage in his middle finger. He's a CRNA, won't affect his work long term. Just a freak thing, the copperhead must have crawled in when he had the water stored in his garage.
Edit: he's a big outdoorsman, and he's been stung by wasps and hornets and scorpions but he said this one was much more painful. He said the snake was a "teenager". Pics in a separate thread below because I'm old and just figured out how to post from iPhone
