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8:16a, 8/20/24
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I'm in piney woods area and have plenty of habitat in my area and can't seem to find anything. Give me tips.
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In reply to zooguy96 • 8:31a, 8/20/24
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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).
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.

I grew up in Harris county and we had an empty lot with a garage randomly on it. Grass was rarely cut and there were a ton of copperheads around that place. Parents told me once to watch out for them and not to get bit, luckily never did. But you get used to watching for them and how they normally travel, aka they like borders and fence lines.
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In reply to Sea Speed • 8:51a, 8/20/24
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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.


For example - when in West Texas, we'd road cruise anywhere we saw rain on the radar in the evenings. Snakes were usually moving because their food was moving. I remember once we saw 20-ish in an 1 mile stretch of road. Also, after dark on black top (warming up on the road to hunt). During the day, we'd flip rocks, or look in road cuts, again, depending on habitat. Flipping tin, wood, etc that has been there a while has always yielded snakes.

Found the rattlesnake flipping tin. Found the rat snake in a tree. Really, it's about knowing the species and where it would normally be found. Our, just understanding generalities of where snakes are found depending on habitat.

Flipping rocks, logs, tin, etc. has always been an easier way for me to find snakes. Road cruising a close second.

I know a lot about a little, and a little about a lot.
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In reply to TarponChaser • 8:51a, 8/20/24
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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.
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In reply to zooguy96 • 9:18a, 8/20/24
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I flipped TONS of tin and didn't find a single one.
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9:18a, 8/20/24
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The majority of snakes on our property were found in our pool.
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In reply to wai3gotgoats • 9:51a, 8/20/24
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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.
Dont try to bring logic into this!!!
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10:56a, 8/20/24
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If you're talking completely raw land in that area, I think your estimate is likely too low but hers is way too high.

But you can be right or you can have peace, so it's your choice how far you want to take this.
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11:01a, 8/20/24
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Thinking about it I think MouthBQ98 probably has more snakes per acre than most of the world
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In reply to Sea Speed • 8:29p, 8/20/24
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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.
Move to MouthBQ's neighborhood.
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5:16p, 8/22/24
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Not snakes, but they are reptiles…. Took these two a few minutes ago.





Not the same species by the way…
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7:42a, 8/23/24
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That first one must have been the inspiration for some of the movie Beetlejuice.
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10:46a, 8/23/24
Can't decide whether Texas Garter Snake or Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake. I'd lean Ribbon but I don't imagine the frog cared which species it is!!

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6:04p, 8/24/24
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Southern Pacific Rattlesnake
Found while taking the Scouts hiking
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In reply to Sea Speed • 6:09p, 8/24/24
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Sea Speed said:
That first one must have been the inspiration for some of the movie Beetlejuice.


They are hilarious to watch running around with tails curled up behind them
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2:36p, 8/25/24
He was eating a spiny lizard under my mower.

Poor lizard.
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2:38p, 8/25/24
Wrong board!
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5:30p, 8/26/24
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What we got? CW?


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In reply to Ducks4brkfast • 5:50p, 8/26/24
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You got it
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5:58p, 8/26/24
Saw a dead on the road timber today. Same place I usually see them. Near Beckville Texas
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6:15p, 8/26/24
On another note, this thread just hit 1000 posts !
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9:20p, 8/26/24
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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




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In reply to [removed post] • 8:48a, 8/27/24
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It can be really snakey at times. The few trips I've made over there and caught a mild/sunny day the garter snakes are everywhere. Last time we got 3 species in a morning

Wandering gartersnake


Northwestern gartersnake


Puget Sound gartersnake
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In reply to 12f Mane • 9:52a, 8/27/24
Do they have many venomous snakes up there ?
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In reply to nealan • 11:43a, 8/27/24
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Just one, the northern pacific rattlesnake
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In reply to 12f Mane • 12:04p, 8/27/24
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He looks happy lol
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In reply to DJV2012 • 12:17p, 8/27/24
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Was not pleased at me for almost stepping on him in tall grass
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In reply to 12f Mane • 12:19p, 8/27/24
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12f Mane said:
Just one, the northern pacific rattlesnake


Beautiful snake.
I know a lot about a little, and a little about a lot.
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In reply to TheVarian • 1:18p, 8/27/24
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TheVarian 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




Just so everyone knows, that's a prairie rattlesnake
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1:20p, 8/27/24
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Haven't run in a while but did today, was surprised to see two 3 foot dbws swimming in a creek. Normally only see the smaller ones in this heat
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In reply to 12f Mane • 1:41p, 8/27/24
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A place I have been in S Central CO swore they had a big Western they saw but I'm pretty sure it was a Prairie… any thoughts on a western being up West of Trinidad, CO?
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In reply to ttha_aggie_09 • 2:16p, 8/27/24
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No WDBs in Colorado. They get up to around Taos but none have been found to my knowledge in the state.
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In reply to 12f Mane • 2:51p, 8/27/24
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That is exactly what I thought and also they had no pictures so I couldn't verify. They were adamant it was a WDB and its barely North of the NM line but still figured it was a prairie rattler.
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In reply to 12f Mane • 2:53p, 8/27/24
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I'll see if I can get better photos next time, I'm sure they will be out and about again over the next few days
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