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First snake of 2010

Jim Godfrey

Jim Godfrey

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I caught this female just down the road from where I live on 3-12-10. She just shed today. I work outside every day and see many snakes. The cold winter we had has kept them in hiding for longer than usual. She had crawled out on the asphalt at dusk. The next car would probably have flattened her. Sorry about the focus issue. I do not have a very good camera.
 

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Coolest snakes around here are the wild milks and the ringsnakes (I think they are called) they have bluish tops reddish bellies and a ring around the neck, small and eat worms. I want some rings, a guy said he will try to catch one or two for me.
 
I don't keep many from the wild, but I will hang on to this female for future outcrossing. I'm just glad I didn't find her like I find most of the snakes on my road...dead. Soon the turtles will be out. I move them off of the road daily once the weather gets warm. I live in a swamp, and there's lots of sliders and an occasional Eastern box or spotted turtle.
 
That's a good looking corn. I have yet to find any snakes in 2010, but if I found one that looked like that, I'd probably keep it.

Tim
 
I'm moving to Louisiana so I expect to see some at some point this year. I just hope I dont run into what my boyfriend ran into a few weeks ago in his back yard, a water moccasin.:sidestep:
 
Stormy said:
I'm moving to Louisiana so I expect to see some at some point this year. I just hope I dont run into what my boyfriend ran into a few weeks ago in his back yard, a water moccasin.:sidestep:
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Is that a cotton mouth? I've never seen one but I hear they can be dangerous, I'd be terrified to see one of those in my own garden!!
 
Probably too early for her to be gravid, but she did just shed. She's a little on the small size for breeding. I'll give her another year before considering. As for the cotton mouths they wander into my yard on occasion. Got to watch your step getting the paper early in the morning! One day a couple of years ago a large one parked itself at the foot of the stairs. My wife would not leave the house until I got home!
 
haydnrobinson said:
Is that a cotton mouth? I've never seen one but I hear they can be dangerous, I'd be terrified to see one of those in my own garden!!
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Yeah its a cottonmouth... They are fun when they dart off the bank of the creek right for your feet when you are standing in muddy water and all you see is snake swirling around your water boots.... I'm lucky it was only a little guy... Those things are mean as a hornet.:fullauto:
 
covato78 said:
hey stormy

Those water moccasins are all we have round here LOL
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lol. Way I see it is at least this time I know before I am moving. Last time I moved south no one told me about the brown recluse spiders until we had some loose in the house.
 
Aight Jim, that settles it. I've gotta come down there one day this year and go herping with you and DC.... I know technically you weren't herping when you found this one, but still, I've never even seen a corn in the wild up here.
 
Hope you can do that one day. Despite the hot weather we had this week (three days bumping ninety degrees) I have yet to see but two other snakes. I saw a water snake on Tuesday and I finally saw a black racer today. I work outdoors in an area that is rich in wildlife, so I am not actually snake hunting. I do keep my eyes open for them, though. I am afraid that we lost some snakes during the extremely unusual cold weather we had this year. I normally have seen many more than I have. The black racers are usually the first to appear because they can absorb heat from the sun more rapidly than other snakes here, but I have only seen one. I saw it today. It seems that there are fewer turtles out as well.
 
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