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Snake Thread: 2023

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Montgomery
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I don't think I would call my wife Mrs fish nag
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Juvy, only about 18", reference leaf at top.
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FISHNAG said:

Mrs. Fishnag was insistent that the cat was in peril as it was chasing this down the driveway.

Neat, that's a Slowinski's cornsnake. A good find for that area.
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Are pet corn snakes hybrids of Slowinskis? Related to rat snakes, right?
Let's go, Brandon!
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12f Mane said:

FISHNAG said:

Mrs. Fishnag was insistent that the cat was in peril as it was chasing this down the driveway.

Neat, that's a Slowinski's cornsnake. A good find for that area.
The pattern and colors steered me towards a great plains rat snake rather than the run of the mill western. How do you identify it as a Slowinski's? I think this is only the second time I've seen/heard of one of these.
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This guy was on the driveway last week. Angry little fella

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They're related and the taxonomy of that group gets shuffled around.
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By range it is a slowinski's, as opposed to a great plains. The head pattern is different on young ratsnakes.
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I have been chased by them when I was swimming lakes. Not as scary as being followed by a moccasin but not pleasant
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https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/8407/pdf
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FTAG 2000 said:

https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/8407/pdf
Another "poisonous" snake. That would be frightening though.
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FTAG 2000 said:

https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/8407/pdf
Let's go, Brandon!
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Damn. That's just a lose-lose situation. Get bit by a copperhead or crash your chopper. Although, I'd be curious to know what the snake really was. Probably just a rat snake or something knowing most people's snake ID capabilities.
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Copperhead bite all day. They aren't deadly.
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Little black racer sunning in the top of a bush (SW Florida).
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The return of the king! Excited to see what we get in the thread this year.
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12f Mane said:

Copperhead bite all day. They aren't deadly.


Very much this. It's not a question really. Had an lady who broke her wrist freaking out about a gecko in her house today. She jumped and fell backwards onto her hand up underneath her body. Then she further injured her wrist with a broom trying to push the lizard out the door. This copperhead story is a similar decision making situation.

Keep calm and think in animal encounters.
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Yup, my fiance now has a titanium elbow since she stepped into the shower right onto a scorpion, reacted too quickly, and shattered her elbow. Never broken a bone in her life except for that.

Snakes are not like some other creatures, like wasp, since they don't attack you for no reason. At least the ones in the USA.
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Not sure this really qualifies for snake thread:

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Only thing they can do now is burn the whole thing down
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I can't imagine running into a giant reticulated python like that in the wild, much less in my house or business. From the few people I have ever talked to that owned them, they're apparently giant A-holes too.
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They're out. Time to start keeping a closer eye on my chicken coop.


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Haven't seen anything myself yet, but the snake ID groups have been blowing up the last few days. The vast majority seem to be broad banded watersnakes around the Houston area.
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Yep, and hognoses.

Couple winter finds for me:

Several diamondbacks and a coachwhip sharing a board on a sunny winter day outside of Austin



Baby western mudsnake from north Houston


Cottonmouth


Taylor's ground snake from south Texas
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Great pics as always!

That rattlesnake on the left looks like a big, healthy snake!
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Friend's picture from Tyler State park. Your call?
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Cottonmouth
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Shouldn't that coachwhip be eating those rattlesnakes!??!!?
- If you are going to do something stupid, be smart about it.
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Taylor's ground snake is a new one for me.
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DeBoss said:

Shouldn't that coachwhip be eating those rattlesnakes!??!!?
Too big for him at this point I'd imagine...
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Ag83 said:

DeBoss said:

Shouldn't that coachwhip be eating those rattlesnakes!??!!?
Too big for him at this point I'd imagine...
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ATX_AG_08 said:

Taylor's ground snake is a new one for me.
I missed the literature coming out but apparently that genus got split into 3 species, with south Texas getting its own species.
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Correct calls on cottonmouth, and I'll add that it is really dirty and needs its first spring shed.
 
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