I'm in piney woods area and have plenty of habitat in my area and can't seem to find anything. Give me tips.
After being in areas with lots of venomous snakes you get pretty good at seeing them. The majority of the time when I do see them I have to point them out to other people and still sometimes they miss them. My wife has gotten really good and has way better eyesight than me, starting to challenge me.zooguy96 said:
Yeah, if you are actually looking for snakes and know where to look, you can find some quite easily in the right habitats.
Others - quite difficult. I've only seen 3 Eastern Hognoses in the field (my favorite snake).
Sea Speed said:
I'm in piney woods area and have plenty of habitat in my area and can't seem to find anything. Give me tips.
TarponChaser said:12f Mane said:
While I'd guess 300 is too high I think you'd be surprised how many snakes are in any particular area that you never encounter, especially in that part of the world where the majority are fossorial.
Check out 12f Mane breaking out the $20 words.
Dont try to bring logic into this!!!wai3gotgoats said:
If you were inclined to, you could communicate to your spouse that 43560 sq ft (1 acre) divided by 300 = 142.5 square feet per snake. Meaning that, theoretically, you should be able to find a snake in any 10 foot by 14.25 foot rectangle.
Don't figure that will gain you any advantage in the matter, but if she didn't immediately get and wear snake boots when outside, you would have standing to express doubt in the sincerity of her assertion of 300 snakes per acre.
But maybe just keep this calculation on the down low.
Move to MouthBQ's neighborhood.Sea Speed said:
I'm in piney woods area and have plenty of habitat in my area and can't seem to find anything. Give me tips.
Sea Speed said:
That first one must have been the inspiration for some of the movie Beetlejuice.
12f Mane said:
Just one, the northern pacific rattlesnake
Just so everyone knows, that's a prairie rattlesnakeTheVarian said:
Ran into a second rattler on the walking path by my house. Never saw this one nor the other until I heard the rattle.
This one had at least a dozen rattles on the tail, about jumped out of my shorts when I looked and saw him coiled up.
ETA: the rattle is in the middle of the first photo, located in southeast CO