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#1051
On 6/2/2019 at 6:05 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Damn, that’s a pretty one.

my thought too when I saw it.  Yes, really.

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#1053

Just outside Mullin, TX in Mills County. Part of my little ranch is the old oak savannah cross timbers. I
 

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#1060
15 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Where are you? That’s one photogenic coachwhip. Actually would be cool to get a macro shot of those scales. Very cool.

Would be very cool indeed. Gorgeous snek specimen. 

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#1063

Apparently a black tail rattlesnake was found near Austin yesterday or the day before. First one in like 60 years.

 

Lulz, just saw the video above. Obviously it wasn’t her first time handling a large black snake. Queue the Full Metal Jacket references.

#1066
3 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Apparently a black tail rattlesnake was found near Austin yesterday or the day before. First one in like 60 years.

 

Lulz, just saw the video above. Obviously it wasn’t her first time handling a large black snake. Queue the Full Metal Jacket references.

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#1074
2 hours ago, Shaggy3.0 said:

 


She’s wife material.


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If the BBC didn't phase her, then y'all ain't got a chance...

#1075

I was out riding my bike Saturday, and I came across a nice big rat snek.  It was either a rat snek or black mamba.  I just got my bike tuned up, so the gears and brakes were working like a charm.  I was on a small dirt trail, about 18" wide, and I came around a corner to see a black snake crossing the trail.  I couldn't see the head or tail, just snake.

Here's the section of trail, no snake in the picture.  But you can see the vegetation on each side.  Imagine seeing a snake stretched across the dirt part here:

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So I squeezed the shit out of both brakes, and almost went flying over the handlebars, onto the snake.  I managed to turn the front wheel, and almost broke my ankle trying to catch myself from falling into the grass, where snake lives.  I watched the snake's tail drag across the trail, and I heard it in the brush.  Within a few seconds, this thing had slithered about 15' away, and started climbing a fucking cedar tree.  Before I knew it, it was 10' up in the tree.

 

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I'll spoiler the full version if you want to see it, but it's not much clearer. 

 

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Based on the rattle-less tail, dark markings, and white belly, I think it's a rat snake.  But it could be a mamba.  I was impressed at how quickly it got up that tree.

 

My next bike:

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#1076
48 minutes ago, miguelito said:

I was out riding my bike Saturday, and I came across a nice big rat snek.  It was either a rat snek or black mamba.  I just got my bike tuned up, so the gears and brakes were working like a charm.  I was on a small dirt trail, about 18" wide, and I came around a corner to see a black snake crossing the trail.  I couldn't see the head or tail, just snake.

Here's the section of trail, no snake in the picture.  But you can see the vegetation on each side.  Imagine seeing a snake stretched across the dirt part here:

20190608-132114-1200.jpg

 

 

So I squeezed the shit out of both brakes, and almost went flying over the handlebars, onto the snake.  I managed to turn the front wheel, and almost broke my ankle trying to catch myself from falling into the grass, where snake lives.  I watched the snake's tail drag across the trail, and I heard it in the brush.  Within a few seconds, this thing had slithered about 15' away, and started climbing a fucking cedar tree.  Before I knew it, it was 10' up in the tree.

 

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I'll spoiler the full version if you want to see it, but it's not much clearer. 

 

 

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Based on the rattle-less tail, dark markings, and white belly, I think it's a rat snake.  But it could be a mamba.  I was impressed at how quickly it got up that tree.

 

My next bike:

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Oh anything that big has to be a mamba...  l

#1077
On 6/3/2019 at 6:55 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Where are you? That’s one photogenic coachwhip. Actually would be cool to get a macro shot of those scales. Very cool.

This close enough for you?

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#1078

Buddy of mine is renovating a place in Atlanta on the river so I went to check it out today and saw this big boy.

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Probably about a 6’ black rat snek. Didn’t get a chance to grab him before he cruised under the deck.

#1080

About an hour ago I was looking out the window at some lizards.  They were acting funny and were sitting on the leaf tops of a Desert Rose I have in a pot.  As I was looking I noticed 5 different lizards each perch on a separate bunch of leaves at the top of the plant.    That's really strange and I hadn't seen them doing this before..like ever.   Then I see a Snek slide up to the pot and start up the base of the plant (from the bottom of the pot to the top of the Desert Rose where all the lizards are now is about 28"-36" or so)  The head of the snek gets about half way to the top and then launches, catching a big ol lizard.  The snek just hauls ass into a hedge and disappears in a flash.  Pretty cool to watch.

 

Looked him up to see if he needed a shovel massage...  nope Southern Black Racer (not my pic)

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#1084
10 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

So the lizards just got together and played duck duck goose? Loser gets eaten

The reason I payed attention was that the lizards looked like they were playing the floor(grass) is lava.  They were even sitting extended up in the air, I guess to get a better look.  That strike was so fast...it was impressive, Snek not fucking around.

#1085

That’s awesome. I’d keep a close watch the next few days and try to catch the next meal on film. That snek ain’t leaving until all the lizards are gone 

#1090

A couple of nights ago

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Pulled him off of the post and put him in the pasture about 50 yards from the house.

Next morning

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Took him down to the lake, you can see part of it at the top of this pic, about 400 yards away. He returned this morning so I put him in a bucket and took him to the golf course. I figured he could eat vermin around the cart sheds.

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Let him go

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And the SOB made a beeline for my golfcart and crawled behind the airbox.

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I pulled him out and put him in one of our maintenance sheds.

Before you criticize my deck, and it does look sorry, we are rebuilding and painting it. You can see the top of my radial arm saw in the 2nd pic.

 

#1095

That's why I have barn cats. I also have 7 kittens (less than 3 weeks old) on the front porch. I don't want the snek to reduce the mouser numbers.

There is a bird nest under the eaves that the snake was after. The wife would be pissed if anything happened to her birds. Some type of swallow that eats bugs so it is allowed to build there.

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#1098
1 hour ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

That's why I have barn cats. I also have 7 kittens (less than 3 weeks old) on the front porch. I don't want the snek to reduce the mouser numbers.

There is a bird nest under the eaves that the snake was after. The wife would be pissed if anything happened to her birds. Some type of swallow that eats bugs so it is allowed to build there.

7 kittens you say ?  Yer gonna need a bigger snek.

#1099
2 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

That's why I have barn cats. I also have 7 kittens (less than 3 weeks old) on the front porch.

Maybe snek was just trying to get a good seat for the show? 

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