trip said:TxKng82 said:
Friend's neighbors pool. Consensus?
Low on water. Needs some a shock.
Snake Thread: 2023
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No water within 1/4 Mile so not a water snake?
Hognose
Yep, hog. Check out the point on that nose!
Getting feisty at the mailbox
Dekays Brown?
Dekays Brown?
That must be why USPS never delivers our mail.
Yes, Dekay's Brown Snake.
Tulsa, OK - playing in golf tournament and decided not to scare the folks I'm playing with by catching it.
DBWS ?
You got the "BWS" right, just need to change the first letter.nealan said:
DBWS ?
Southern Hills CC?
Plain belly
Forrest Ridge
Can someone please confirm that this is a harmless little friend?
Harmless Watersnake
Blotched?
Blotched?
There are areas of west Texas where some of the deer have abnormally long canine teeth, and are affectionately referred to as vampire deer. Not sure if it also confers a desire for eating meat.Mr President Elect said:
Here is a video of it:Deer are herbivores and classified as ruminants because of their rumen, which helps them digest tough plant matter like cellulose.
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 11, 2023
But if food is scarce or they lack minerals such as calcium and phosphorus, they may eat meat
Watch this one eat a snake
pic.twitter.com/OF6qhAqpXA
This guy was up in one of my crepe myrtles right above our heads this evening
Sorry bad pictures, but rat / chicken ?
Sorry bad pictures, but rat / chicken ?
Correct
Were you wearing a hat?
Looking to confirm my thoughts on this one on my daughters front porch in Temple.
PBWS?
Yep.
Thanks
I was not wearing a hat. This thing scared the bejesus out of the kids though.
PBWS are everywhere it seems:
Dumb question…I know rat snakes are good climbers but do all snakes have the ability to climb?? Particularly mocs, rattlers and copperheads? I know growing up running trot lines on Lake Steinhagen (Dam B) we would come across water snakes in the flooded cypress trees in the lake…TIA
Yes. I put a copperhead on a strand of barbed wire fence once and it crawled right down along it until it found a cross wire and crawled down to the ground.
Some snakes are better at it than others. Water snakes are pretty good climbers.
Vipers can climb but avoid it. They hunt and hide on the ground. That's why the 1/4" hardware cloth I ran around the base of my backyard fence has pretty much kept all the copperheads out but I still find the occasional water snake or yellow belly racer or rat snake in my yard. The copperheads simply avoid climbing it when they can turn and travel on the ground in a different direction.
Some snakes are better at it than others. Water snakes are pretty good climbers.
Vipers can climb but avoid it. They hunt and hide on the ground. That's why the 1/4" hardware cloth I ran around the base of my backyard fence has pretty much kept all the copperheads out but I still find the occasional water snake or yellow belly racer or rat snake in my yard. The copperheads simply avoid climbing it when they can turn and travel on the ground in a different direction.
You haven't really lived until you are pulling up a cedar with a skid steer and a rattler drops out on your windshield
Funny this comes up this morning... Someone just shared a picture of a big western diamondback in a mesquite tree on the Texas Snake Identification Facebook page.
I bet you were really appreciating that windshield.aggiedata said:
You haven't really lived until you are pulling up a cedar with a skid steer and a rattler drops out on your windshield
Speaking of rattlers...My dad sent me this timber from Montgomery, TX. I live in south Florida and almost never see snakes. I really expected to see more here, but my family finds way more in TX.
Such cool looking snakes. Lots of reports of them in Montomery Co. in recent years, not sure that's always been the case.
Where's your dad live in Montgomery? By the lake or west?
Just south of lake Conroe around FM 2854.
dang. big ole boy.