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  • Patricio Swayze
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    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
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    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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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Water snek some fat sumbitches, too.

 

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yes, I've seen girthy water snakes, but never a skinny cottonmouth.

 

(cue up some asshole with a pic of a skinny cottonmouth)

4 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

Thanks for not deep tining that snake whatever it is.

I don’t kill if I don’t plan on eating it or it’s a pest/threat. Since he didn’t bite me when he clearly had a chance, I figured I’d return the favor. 

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Went out to Snek Rd. tonight.  Nothing for the hour leading up to sunset, then boom, snek time.  Within 15 minutes, 3 cottonmouths, 1 nerodia, and 1 plains ratsnake that I lost in the tall grass before I got a shot. 

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On 4/25/2022 at 3:51 PM, UT_OB1 said:

I don’t kill if I don’t plan on eating it or it’s a pest/threat. Since he didn’t bite me when he clearly had a chance, I figured I’d return the favor. 

Congrats on finding the one snake in Braz that’s not a water moccasin. When my folks bought their place down there, one of the pastures was overgrown and under about 8” of water. Really shitty drainage we later fixed. Anyhow, I lost count of how many moccasins I shredded when I was mowing that swamp for the first time.   Some of those thicc fuckers would knock the pto rpm down for a second.  They were just everywhere, unavoidable if you wanted to save them. 

On 4/30/2022 at 10:13 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Went out to Snek Rd. tonight.  Nothing for the hour leading up to sunset, then boom, snek time.  Within 15 minutes, 3 cottonmouths, 1 nerodia, and 1 plains ratsnake that I lost in the tall grass before I got a shot. 

I wish I had a snek road.  Cottonmouth doesn't look very big.  Did it still have a yellow/green tail?

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I wish I had a snek road.  Cottonmouth doesn't look very big.  Did it still have a yellow/green tail?

Whereabouts are you again? I forgot what you mentioned to me when we met at L&L.

Yeah, all those cottonmouths were pretty small.
On 5/3/2022 at 9:58 AM, Patricio Swayze said:


Whereabouts are you again? I forgot what you mentioned to me when we met at L&L.

Yeah, all those cottonmouths were pretty small.

North of Austin.

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North of Austin.

Well, I can’t guarantee anything. But there is a road that is near Canyonlands called Cow Creek road. Looks like it could have potential.
8 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:


Well, I can’t guarantee anything. But there is a road that is near Canyonlands called Cow Creek road. Looks like it could have potential.

I know that road.  I'll have to check it out.  What characteristics do you like about it?  Remote, Hill Country, and nearby water source?

Just pulled up iNaturalist and see that there are plenty of snakes marked on that road - several copperheads and a couple cottonmouths, too.

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I know that road.  I'll have to check it out.  What characteristics do you like about it?  Remote, Hill Country, and nearby water source?
Just pulled up iNaturalist and see that there are plenty of snakes marked on that road - several copperheads and a couple cottonmouths, too.

Everything you listed. I would think after a rain at dusk would produce something. Ideally with air temp being above 72. I would think many species could be found there. But obviously it’s a lot of driving slow, back and forth. Sometimes I get nothing, other days double digits.

That road's a pretty drive

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[mention=98]Patricio Swayze[/mention] Is this your country cousin?
 

Lulz. What kind of hillbilly Jack off eats a copperhead?
22 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:


Lulz. What kind of hillbilly Jack off eats a copperhead?


One that don’t sound like he belongs around them there parts. 

22 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:


Lulz. What kind of hillbilly Jack off eats a copperhead?

Times are really tough, I guess. I don't see how you guys do it.

 

I'm concerned that he had his wife(in flip flops) and young daughter in that vicinity. Fuck the cat, though.

22 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:


Lulz. What kind of hillbilly jacks off, and eats a copperhead?

Fify

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36 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:


One that don’t sound like he belongs around them there parts. 

No lie. Don’t know where that accent tracks. 

1 hour ago, thunderlounge said:


One that don’t sound like he belongs around them there parts. 

Near as I can tell, that dude is in Souf Cackalacky.  He has no accent.  But is missing a tooth.

Lmao, he's kind of entertaining though.

Friends saw a snake disappear under a kitchen cabinet. It reappeared about a week later.
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that's what happens when a rat snek doesn't eat for a week. Skinny rat snek. 

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Did you take that with an iPhone 3G from the other side of the room? Can’t see shit. But looking maybe like a watersnake. But they don’t usually do B&E.

Phone fell out of my pocket on an mtb ride.  While looking for it, saw a five-lined skink.  Not snek, but kinda cool nevertheless.

Looked a bit like this fella.  Some have bright blue tails, but not this one.

 

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36 minutes ago, Hammerin Hank said:

What the fuck is this and do I need to kill it?

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Despite the bad quality picture I am confident it is a non-venomous water snake, likely a plain bellied water snake, from the body shape, color, eye position, head shape, and labial bars.

Despite the bad quality picture I am confident it is a non-venomous water snake, likely a plain bellied water snake, from the body shape, color, eye position, head shape, and labial bars.

That’s where I am.

Hank, that snake is totally harmless...

 

so long as you're awake.

Thanks for the responses. I haven’t seen him since, but he was big. My neighbor found a 5 foot long skin in his yard that I assume he recently shedded

Thanks for the responses. I haven’t seen him since, but he was big. My neighbor found a 5 foot long skin in his yard that I assume he recently shedded

They can get big, but 5 ft is a giant nerodia. Keep in mind their shedded skins stretch, so your boy might have given snek the benefit of the doubt. I’ll try and find the pic I took about three years ago of the one at the LBJ boat launch who had just eaten what looked like an NFL regulation size football.

Just saw my snek again and it is fucking big. Too big to be this close to my house. Couldn’t get a pic because I was trying to keep my dog away from him. I know where he’s hiding though 

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Just saw my snek again and it is fucking big. Too big to be this close to my house. Couldn’t get a pic because I was trying to keep my dog away from him. I know where he’s hiding though 

Are you in Austin? If you want to get it removed but not killed, send me a DM. I know a guy that might be able to help in Austin if you are in Houston, I can come grab it. I’d you are in Dallas, well fuck you. I do t go to Oklahoma for anything.

If by dangerous you mean venomous, then you are ok.  It does look like a plain bellied. Confirm it by checking for the dark vertical  lines on its lower jaw. 

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Here’s a better look at his head 
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Definitely looking like a plain bellied watersnake (non venomous). I reached out to a guy in Austin that might remove it for you. Will let you know when I hear back.

Been mountain biking pretty regular but have not seen the usual ration of snek this year.  Just a nerodia, a racer of some type (I think, it was  . . . racing away), and a rough? green.  Not a single copperboi, although I have heard reports.

That also includes ded snek, so that's nice.

I guess the abrupt change from pretty cool and damp to hot af has kept them hidden.

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