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OnlyForNow said:

Maybe by looks, but by size, it is immediately recognizeable as much bigger than a YBWS.
Exactly. It doesn't have that glossy black look I usually think of with an indigo. And the vertical stripes along the side of the underside of the neck hint like a water snake. Just looking casually, the size didn't really occur to me looking at the snake itself; but when compared to the 4 wheeler, it is obviously a big snake.
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It was about 6.5'
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Really cool indigo!!
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So that Indigo just got tired, and said "screw it I'll just catch a ride on the next ATV that comes along"?
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MAROON said:

So that Indigo just got tired, and said "screw it I'll just catch a ride on the next ATV that comes along"?


No I put him there to try and give the pic some scale
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as the cool weather tries to thwart this threads activity,i offer a (probably old and already posted) fellow that just wants to float the river.

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Got a late season sunbather that smiled for the camera. I almost ran over him so he wasn't too happy.



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That thur is a cotton mouth of the venemous variety!!!
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You should change your name to snek
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Did the same to a black tail rattler out near big bend this past weekend. He was laid out in a gravel road getting some morning sun and I straddled him. He wasn't happy about being nearly run over or then nudged off the road with a walking stick. No camera or phone was handy.
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Thought you guys might like this.
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Couple of friends were floating the Buffalo River this last weekend and had company while taking a break





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Prognightmare said:



Thought you guys might like this.
Pretty funny, but that has to be staged. They targeted all young men (no women) and in every scene they conveniently ran into stuff that would fall over comically or willingly jumped into water. It was too ridiculous.
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Maybe, but because of my fear of snakes, I'd have acted the exact same way.
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Posted in neighborhood page



Banded WS?
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Blotched/YBWS juvenile.
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Badace52 said:

Blotched/YBWS juvenile.


Pretty one, too. Lots of red, which I can see someone mistaking a broad band water snake for.
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Awesome!
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What kind of snake in the buffalo river pics?
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Timber Rattler
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12f Mane said:

Awesome!
Do my eyes deceive me or is that a very light colored moccasin?
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ttha_aggie_09 said:

Timber Rattler
Man, that one has a really interesting coloration. Where is the Buffalo River?
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Badace52 said:

ttha_aggie_09 said:

Timber Rattler
Man, that one has a really interesting coloration. Where is the Buffalo River?
Arkansas
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Ahh... makes sense.
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ttha_aggie_09 said:

Timber Rattler
black tail is the giveaway amirite?
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DatTallArchitect said:

12f Mane said:

Awesome!
Do my eyes deceive me or is that a very light colored moccasin?
They do. That is a timber rattlesnake.
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1990AG said:

ttha_aggie_09 said:

Timber Rattler
black tail is the giveaway amirite?
It's a good diagnostic for sure. People still refer to them as "velvet tails"
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It was a combination of the presence of the rattle, the banding, and the dark tail. The only other rattler that somewhat resembles that (in coloration/banding), to my knowledge, would be a rock rattlesnake and he's way too big for that.
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I can't even put into words how much I've learned from this thread this year. Thank you and everyone that puts up will ignorant people like me.
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ttha_aggie_09 said:

It was a combination of the presence of the rattle, the banding, and the dark tail. The only other rattler that somewhat resembles that (in coloration/banding), to my knowledge, would be a rock rattlesnake and he's way too big for that.
I was brief in the question with the understanding that I would have know it was a rattlesnake by it's "rattler"!

this thread has taught me that the black tail(velvet tail) belongs to El Timbre!
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1990AG said:

ttha_aggie_09 said:

Timber Rattler
black tail is the giveaway amirite?
The zig zag stripes are the giveaway. The whole animal gets darker as they age. Some of the ancients in GA/TN mountains are almost all black.
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Just getting back to the thread since I posted those cottonmouth pics above. The snake made the threat display but never once tried to strike out despite me nearly running him over and taking a long stick and shuffling him off the gravel road.

They get a bad rap for being aggressive and "coming after" people.
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I've nudged one repeatedly with a steel toed boot and he kept displaying like that, but never struck once. He liked to posture like he was a big threat, coiled up with mouth open.

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Coachwhip decided to camp out in my snake traps for a while. I let him out on a cool evening, so he hung around for some pictures as long as I didn't get too close.

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