A few recent sightings, at or near our home in East Montgomery County.
Couple months ago, found this Gulf Coast Ribbon that had obviously just shed, nice and shiny. Got my granddaughter Addy to hold it, her 5 year old brother was not quite ready to take that step. Found the skin that had been shed a little while later, almost intact. The kids were more excited about that than the snake.
A week or so later, found this Copperhead at my mother-in-law's home down the street from us. First pic is as found on the driveway, then rolled it over. It was so perfect, I thought it was a fake at first.Could not see any obvious injury. Then when I was carrying it away to toss in the woods, thought it moved and might be alive so quickly dropped it. It didn't move so I picked it up and chunked it a short distance into cover. When I went by a little while later, it was gone.
Couple weeks later, my wife calls me from where I was working across the yard to "come kill this Coral snake on the back porch". I respond before seeing it, "probably a milk snake" but she's sure it's a Coral due to the yellow and red bands. Sure enough, Louisiana Milk Snake as I guessed. I was surprised she didn't scream when she saw it.
Weekend before last, the wife calls me to come take care of another GCR sitting in a flower bed behind the pool. After it went for a brief swim, trying to elude me, I picked him up whereupon he got a little excited and bit me. But he calmed right down after that. I see GCRs and Texas Brown Snakes all the time, don't usually even mess with them unless the wife sees them and then have to take "emergency action" so that she doesn't have a heart attack LOL!
All except the Copperhead were safely relocated/released elsewhere on the property.
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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