FrioAg 00 said:
I'm going with it's a snake next to the base of some sort of outdoor swivel chair, photo taken by someone who cares about good cell charge readiness, strong WiFi coverage and general punctuality
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I can't count how many times I have seen a snake over the last year or two, and my first thought was "get a picture for Texags"
vander54 said:
Someone posted on Nextdoor and asked for identification. A few of us are in agreement on what it is but thought I would share.
Sorry for the poor pic wasn't good on Nextdoor and I had to screenshot it.
Location is south Fort Worth.
12f Mane said:vander54 said:
Someone posted on Nextdoor and asked for identification. A few of us are in agreement on what it is but thought I would share.
Sorry for the poor pic wasn't good on Nextdoor and I had to screenshot it.
Location is south Fort Worth.
It's an intergrade speckled/desert kingsnake
txags92 said:I can't count how many times I have seen a snake over the last year or two, and my first thought was "get a picture for Texags", and usually my phone is somewhere else. Saw a bunch of them dead on the road shoulder between Houston and Austin over the weekend, but figured the rest of the bike riders would be pissed trying to dodge me out there snapping photos of them. Best guess on the ones I got a decent look at was 2-3 water snakes of some variety, a couple of coachwhips, and several rough earth snakes.Walt Luddiger said:
is it weird that missing a picture of a snake is the reminder that i need to keep my phone on me at all times?
saw a diamonback water snake yesterday that had to have been close to the record. So big and dark i initially thought it was an indigo.
Stive said:
We just sat here and watched two yellow bellied water snakes crawl from the ground up into the undercarriage of my assistants Tahoe. She is freaking out and I'm pretty sure she'll Uber home if she doesn't see them crawl out in the next few hours.
ETA: here's one of the culprits.
Badace52 said:Stive said:
We just sat here and watched two yellow bellied water snakes crawl from the ground up into the undercarriage of my assistants Tahoe. She is freaking out and I'm pretty sure she'll Uber home if she doesn't see them crawl out in the next few hours.
ETA: here's one of the culprits.
That's actually a yellow bellied racer...
Badace52 said:
Tails like what?
Badace52 said:
Not really, coachwhips and green snakes have pretty long slender tails as do a few others. There are many, many worldwide species with long slender tails, but I assume you are referring only to species in the U.S.
jfc77 said:
https://imgur.com/gallery/KozVxy5
Saw him this morning... He was white on the the bottom of his head. Rat snake?
Photo help?
reveille23 said:
nm vander beat me to it
Counterpoint said:
Is the red/yellow red/black rhyme about coral snakes foolproof or are there exceptions? The reason I ask is because I was watching a survival show a few days ago and they kept talking about "deadly coral snakes" being a huge threat to the survivalists, but two out of the three times they weren't actually showing coral snakes (at least according to the rhyme)!
FrioAg 00 said:
Blue Coral snakes are pretty badass. Their venom actually makes every nerve fore at once in their victims - effectively causing immediate paralysis
They use it to hunt king cobras and avoid being struck back
Like all the most beautiful, terrible things - they live in Southeast Asia
Badace52 said:
It is very, very good in the U.S., but a few nonvenomous species out west get included in the "kill a fellow" that are actually harmless. Outside of the U.S. it completely falls apart. There is also the off chance you could run into a melanistic, leucistic, or albino coral snake specimen, but the chances are dismally low since those individuals are exceptionally rare.
Counterpoint said:
Found this guy in my chicken coop eating eggs. Relocated him to the woods about a half mile away (is that far enough that he won't come back?).
Google Lens said "Texas Rat Snake". If correct, that's cool (and somewhat scary) that Google can be that accurate from that non-clear of a picture.
