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My friend in the backyard showed up today. He was too quick to get a good picture. 

 

 

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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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"I'll take that off your hands, thank you very much." 

2 corral snakes within the same week, when I hadn’t seen 1 in years. I didn’t get a before pic on the first 1, he met his judgement when trying to go into my garage but now I have to wonder if there is a nest near by. 1st one must have been a parent because he was way bigger than the 2nd.

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On 10/10/2020 at 1:11 PM, TwiceHorn said:

 

they should try not centering their pic on the snake for a tougher challenge

15 hours ago, Walte464 said:

2 corral snakes within the same week, when I hadn’t seen 1 in years. I didn’t get a before pic on the first 1, he met his judgement when trying to go into my garage but now I have to wonder if there is a nest near by. 1st one must have been a parent because he was way bigger than the 2nd.

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Certainly looks like it could kill a fellow. 

4 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

Certainly looks like it could kill a fellow. 

Not in Texas since the early 1960s, but you can never be too safe.

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On 10/11/2020 at 7:36 AM, Blotto said:

Jumping in that swamp water chasing those beasts would be a hard nope for me. 

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That reporter could wrestle my python anytime.

 

We've seen a huge increase in coral snake sightings this year in the neighborhood, which seems to match other folks as well.

There has to be a scientific reason for what makes this year different.  Anybody know?  Other than "forget it Jake, it's 2020".

28 minutes ago, Wiler77 said:

We've seen a huge increase in coral snake sightings this year in the neighborhood, which seems to match other folks as well.

There has to be a scientific reason for what makes this year different.  Anybody know?  Other than "forget it Jake, it's 2020".

Nope, it's 2020, take the length....

8 hours ago, Wiler77 said:

We've seen a huge increase in coral snake sightings this year in the neighborhood, which seems to match other folks as well.

There has to be a scientific reason for what makes this year different.  Anybody know?  Other than "forget it Jake, it's 2020".


People are home more, outdoors more?

1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:


People are home more, outdoors more?

Huh.  Obvious answer is obvious.  I guess that makes sense, although I am pretty active regardless of pandemic status and have seen more this year than probably the last 3-4 years combined.  But that's just one data point.

2 hours ago, Wiler77 said:

Huh.  Obvious answer is obvious.  I guess that makes sense, although I am pretty active regardless of pandemic status and have seen more this year than probably the last 3-4 years combined.  But that's just one data point.

Certainly. I was just spit ballin, but keeping it in mind to compare with the next few years might not be a bad thing. You never know, for just going off instinct, animals are pretty smart and more sensitive to changes. 

This little fella had a bad morning.  

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This guy was out late. Thanks 2020, you thought of everything including cottonmouths on thanksgiving 

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This little feller decided to take up residence inside an irrigation system valve access in a flower bed at the front of my joint.  Of course, that caused Crystal Palace to go to DEFCON 1 and spark plugs were pissed on.  I got the alert at 9 am and didn’t get home until 7:30 pm so snek got one more night to do snek stuff in our flower bed.
 

I waited until the cold morning when he was lethargic to snatch him up and relocate him to the nearby wooded park. 
 

It’s a pretty hognose with great markings.  
 

Enjoy yourself, snek. 

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Rather large specimen from a few months back.  Thicccccccccc....

 

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1 hour ago, BabaYaga said:

Rather large specimen from a few months back.  Thicccccccccc....

 

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Nice coon tail on that one

Another one.  Really cool markings on this one.  Probably the lighting and camera has an impact, but I love the darker markings.

 

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Used to have rattlesnake roundups on the rocky bluffs on our place.  Years back when I was a kid.  They'd hit our place, and neighbors and have a big party after.  Giant tubs full of royally pissed off snakes will certainly get your attention.  

3 hours ago, deadshank said:

Nice coon tail on that one

she's big.

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Ok.  What kind of monster is this little guy gonna grow up to be. He's about 8 inches long.   Need to know if I should torch my backyard and sell my house.  Thanks

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Was behind my garage this morning moving stuff around and found these two guys waiting out the cold weather. Didn’t disturb them - hopefully the sun comes up and they get warm enough to move somewhere else later today. 
 

 

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On 12/23/2020 at 3:17 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Rough earth snake. I eat them like pretzels.

Thanks.  

On 12/23/2020 at 3:17 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Rough earth snake. I eat them like pretzels.

So you eat them a lot but not as much as BBQ?

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Today I heard the stupidest shit I’ve heard in a good year or so.

Thank God not my wife, but a wife at the zoo today, talking to her kid while we visited the herpetarium:

”Snakes don’t have bones. They have exoskeletons, their skin is like their bones. They have to shed it when it gets too rigid.”

Very, very hard not to go over and tell the kid not to listen to his mom, ever. 

Home schooled, no doubt. Hard to imagine what other bullshit she is teaching them if she can fuck up something that easy.

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Just a little water snake. Go grab him to see if he’s👌 

Sure sign of spring when the Snek thread pops up.

On 1/9/2021 at 10:01 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

Today I heard the stupidest shit I’ve heard in a good year or so.

Thank God not my wife, but a wife at the zoo today, talking to her kid while we visited the herpetarium:

”Snakes don’t have bones. They have exoskeletons, their skin is like their bones. They have to shed it when it gets too rigid.”

Very, very hard not to go over and tell the kid not to listen to his mom, ever. 

I was at the Ft Worth zoo a few years back and this woman was loudly and confidently telling people the plural of fox was fox.  I was laughing for a while.

20 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

I was at the Ft Worth zoo a few years back and this woman was loudly and confidently telling people the plural of fox was fox.  I was laughing for a while.

Everyone knows its Foxen.

If she’s a milf, you could play into it with “foxy”, and pick her up. Then remind the boy you’re bangin his mom. 

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i'm pretty sure i was wrong to call this a "Texas" Rough Earth Snake, but i still enjoyed saving him.

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also my mom continues to be hilarious. she asked me what i wanted to name him, and I, thinking of March Madness, said, "ima name him TJ." and she said, "Ibeh? Wee-Bey? Wee-Bey?!?!" (she loves The Wire. i recently posted an anecdote of her yelling out "got them yellow tops!" while i was trying to shoot baskets in the backyard). so once she got all excited about Wee-Bey i was pretty much on board with it, lol. 

also, god damn it, i am somehow still not used to IG not being able to embed. 

On 3/20/2021 at 11:55 PM, shadow_operative said:

also, god damn it, i am somehow still not used to IG not being able to embed. 


It’s because you and Rick Barnes touch yourselves. 

Young copperhead? 

Has a short body like a moccasin but I feel like that's just cuz it's young. Could just be a young chicken/rat snake that has copperhead camo. 

Just now, NorthLoop said:

Young copperhead? 

Has a short body like a moccasin but I feel like that's just cuz it's young. Could just be a young chicken/rat snake that has copperhead camo. 

I thought copperhead at first but pics I found online just don't match. It was striking out just by me getting close to take a pic. 

12 minutes ago, immortal13 said:

On the back porch this morning. Can anybody ID this little guy?

 

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4 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Looks like a Broad Banded Water Snake. 

I think you are right

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13 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Young copperhead? 

Has a short body like a moccasin but I feel like that's just cuz it's young. Could just be a young chicken/rat snake that has copperhead camo. 

Juvy copperheads typically have a yellow tail, and that just seems way to dark for a copperhead.

That's a really good example of a non-pit-viper flattening its head when threatened so it looks like a triangular pit viper head.

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