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  • Patricio Swayze
    Patricio Swayze

    Flipped a board just outside of Austin and found 2 Coachwhips and one Western Diamondback.  The buzz worm tagged one of the coachwhips and he took of.  I can't find anything definitive on whether thei

  • Patricio Swayze
    Patricio Swayze

    Awesome ratsnake SurlyBDR. Well, it was a very active day out in the Katy Prairie.  I figured it would be a good day to go with all the rain that we had, but wasn't expecting all the flooding.  I

  • Patricio Swayze
    Patricio Swayze

    I thought I was going to find a bunch of cool snakes today.  Only saw two ribbon snakes.  However, one was being eaten by a hawk, so that is pretty cool.  Not the best or sharpest shots, but still coo

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3 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Patrick is an urban achiever 

 

He's going to fake a heart condition, then go shoot snek pics in a new area not too long after?

3 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Patrick is an urban achiever 

And proud we are of all of them.

5 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

Patrick is an urban achiever 

Little urban achiever

13 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:


I see a lot of these bitey fucks at Bishop Fiorenza park near Eldridge and Westpark.

There use to be lots of watersnakes in the ponds off Sandalwood in Memorial.

Devil's creature.  Even when there isn't one. 

 

A man has been accused of luring his father to a West Austin cliff to look at a rattlesnake and then shoving him off, an arrest affidavit says.

Austin police officers responded to an area near Highland Crest Drive and Western Hills Drive on Sunday at 9:07 a.m. after receiving a report that a 78-year-old man had been assaulted. The area is just west of MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1) and south of Northland Drive.

The man told officers that his son, 49-year-old Gerald McCants, left their home at 8:30 a.m. and returned a few minutes later. McCants was excited and asked his dad to come with him to a look at a rattlesnake he found, the affidavit says.

The pair drove a half-mile from their home to a cliff off Highland Crest Drive.

As the man approached the edge of the cliff looking for the snake, he said McCants shoved him on his right side, the affidavit says.

The force of the shove caused the man to fall roughly 40 feet straight down, off the cliff, the affidavit says.

“As he was falling, (the man) stated that he could hear (McCants) laughing,” the affidavit says.

The man received a deep cut to his forehead and to the center of the back of his head, and he had multiple minor cuts and abrasions all over his body. He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center for his injuries, Austin-Travis County EMS medics said.

McCants was charged with injury to an elderly person. He is in the Travis County Jail with a bail amount of $20,000, according to online county records.

Look, I think the son should be thrown in prison where a couple guys get rapey on him for trying to kill an old dude.  But at the same time, nothing good happens when you voluntarily choose to get closer to a rattlesnek, so shame on dad.

2 minutes ago, 4th and 5 said:

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this guy seems a bit pushy

That's not what I pictured Patricio Swayze looking like for some reason.

  • 3 weeks later...

My mom sent me these pictures just now. Badass snek.efe259b4469d1fca5292b9e2f70025bf.jpg1f30ee2d0d88c90ff31821e96979aacc.jpg

Did your mom take those pictures, too?  My mom would have murdered everyone in a 2 mile radius, then carpet bombed a 5 mile radius.

On 3/25/2020 at 2:28 PM, HOOKEM4 said:

My mom sent me these pictures just now. Badass snek.efe259b4469d1fca5292b9e2f70025bf.jpg1f30ee2d0d88c90ff31821e96979aacc.jpg

Looks like a Southern Hog Nose snek. 

On 3/9/2020 at 5:17 PM, 4th and 5 said:

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Chazz Michael Michaels' brother????

On 3/25/2020 at 2:28 PM, HOOKEM4 said:

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Photographer has a huge head.  Did ET take those pics?

2 hours ago, bschoolprof said:

Photographer has a huge head.  Did ET take those pics?

BAwba Walters?

Found this little guy in the outdoor fireplace this morning:

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Baby king snake IMO

The wife and I went for a walk at the county park by our house yesterday afternoon.  I told her we were on a snake hunt, but she wasn't having it.  A couple miles into our walk and on the heavily traveled, groomed trail, my wife stopped dead in her tracks and pointed up ahead.  A four foot diamondback rattlesnake decided to cross in front of us.  A guy on a bike was approaching from the other way and I managed to get his attention and get him stopped before he ran right over the snake.  Snake wasn't agitated at all, no rattling - just slowly cruising across the path ending with about 2 1/2 inches of rattles sticking up about 45 degrees.  Best walk around the park I've experienced in years.  Unfortunately, I managed to fuck up taking a simple video.

On 3/27/2020 at 11:20 AM, Buzzrock said:

Found this little guy in the outdoor fireplace this morning:

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Baby king snake IMO

Beautiful!

1 hour ago, Jerry Callo said:

The wife and I went for a walk at the county park by our house yesterday afternoon.  I told her we were on a snake hunt, but she wasn't having it.  A couple miles into our walk and on the heavily traveled, groomed trail, my wife stopped dead in her tracks and pointed up ahead.  A four foot diamondback rattlesnake decided to cross in front of us.  A guy on a bike was approaching from the other way and I managed to get his attention and get him stopped before he ran right over the snake.  Snake wasn't agitated at all, no rattling - just slowly cruising across the path ending with about 2 1/2 inches of rattles sticking up about 45 degrees.  Best walk around the park I've experienced in years.  Unfortunately, I managed to fuck up taking a simple video.

I read somewhere that rattling rattlers were killed at a greater rate by hunters, so that the non-rattling rattlers were afforded a greater survival chance, and growing in numbers.  I might have been drunk tho...

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Found this little guy in the outdoor fireplace this morning:

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Baby king snake IMO

Gorgeous little king!
19 hours ago, Jerry Callo said:

The wife and I went for a walk at the county park by our house yesterday afternoon.  I told her we were on a snake hunt, but she wasn't having it.  A couple miles into our walk and on the heavily traveled, groomed trail, my wife stopped dead in her tracks and pointed up ahead.  A four foot diamondback rattlesnake decided to cross in front of us.  A guy on a bike was approaching from the other way and I managed to get his attention and get him stopped before he ran right over the snake.  Snake wasn't agitated at all, no rattling - just slowly cruising across the path ending with about 2 1/2 inches of rattles sticking up about 45 degrees.  Best walk around the park I've experienced in years.  Unfortunately, I managed to fuck up taking a simple video.

Abject fear will do that to ya.

On 3/29/2020 at 3:07 PM, Gatorubet said:

I read somewhere that rattling rattlers were killed at a greater rate by hunters, so that the non-rattling rattlers were afforded a greater survival chance, and growing in numbers.  I might have been drunk tho...

I thought I had posted an article about rattlesneks not using their rattles as a way of surviving the increase in the numbers of feral/wild hogs.  If the sneks rattle, the hogs find them and they get kilt.  Think about that -- rattlesneks not using their rattles to warn you that you're fixin' to step on them.

10 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

Well what the hell are we going to call them now?

assholes

  • 2 weeks later...

^^^^

Snek not very good at the camouflage game

5 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

 


Good snek no?

 

Copperhead.  Fine snek.

Some rat snakes have similar coloration, but the dark bands are wide at the top, narrow at the sides, while copperheads are opposite.

1 hour ago, Buzzrock said:

 


Good snek no?

 

Fuuuck copperheads.

Found this very docile guy under a mesquite tree yesterday. Giving me the side eye.417568e31845d222e96c20fde82cbe03.jpg

On 3/27/2020 at 11:20 AM, Buzzrock said:

Found this little guy in the outdoor fireplace this morning:

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Baby king snake IMO

Awesome, what a great find!

They eat anything they can get a hold of and specifically venomous snakes.  

49 minutes ago, Quasimofo said:

Found this very docile guy under a mesquite tree yesterday. Giving me the side eye.417568e31845d222e96c20fde82cbe03.jpg

 

I found a fat one like that yesterday and put him in with my 3.5 foot Cali king, they're friends now but they won't be when that king snake finishes digesting that bird I shot and fed him last week

As recounted on the MTB thread, I was coming down a root-ledged descent the other day and stumbled upon big blek snek.

S/he was "essing" first forward, then backward to the right as I maneuvered left.  Black with no discernible pattern, thought I saw a pit viper head. Two or three feet long, maybe longer, and thiccc.

I am thinking moccasin.  I neither wanted to run over it nor wipe out right in its immediate vicinity.  Great success, but didn't stick around to make the positive ID.

Came across this healthy buddy on a walk with my son a few days ago. Happy I left the dog at home. He saw us and climbed a tree.

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Then the next day my kids were climbing a tree in the backyard and came across this little buddy.

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Rat snakes climb like they are monkeys. Or perhaps they just learned how in the Pacific Northwest.

9 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Copperhead.  Fine snek.

Da fuq?  One of the only three venomous snakes in USA and you say fine?

Sorry, but fuck you good sir.

Da fuq?  One of the only three venomous snakes in USA and you say fine?
Sorry, but fuck you good sir.

*four
4 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Da fuq?  One of the only three venomous snakes in USA and you say fine?

Sorry, but fuck you good sir.

Yeah,  but the least venomous I believe, and pretty damned shy about biting.

44 minutes ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Yeah,  but the least venomous I believe, and pretty damned shy about biting.

They can be shy about biting, but not always. They will bite you if you accidentally step on them.

Just now, Schulz2.0 said:

They can be shy about biting, but not always. They will bite you if you accidentally step on them.

I would too.

2 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:


*four

Rattlesnakes, copperheads, cottonmouths, and coral snakes ?

2 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

Yeah,  but the least venomous I believe, and pretty damned shy about biting.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21463771/

Yeah they don't even use antivenom for copperhead bites anymore.

My grandpa did some work on a house where their 4 year old daughter had been bitten by a copperhead in the backyard. She ended up being fine but that would make me panic for sure seeing my kid getting bit.

 

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