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[d_marsh]

Borrowed from social media.

 

[TexasCharm]

 

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[Swing]

I just took this one.

 

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[Ekatarina]

Some more flowers

Will be soon big white ones

 

[Peanut]

For folks who might not know…. This is a Cottonmouth! If you can see the fangs you are standing waaaaaay too close. They will come directly at you!!! They’ve chased me up a tree before. It’s a highly aggressive snake that rarely bites. But they will convince you that they are going to take your leg off. 10ft is safe from a rattlesnake. Not so with a cottonmouth, 15/20ft is better.

They are deceptively small, rarely more than 30inches. Usually about 2 feet like this one. The older the snake the blacker they appear, almost completely black. They have another trick, their tail will sometimes vibrate just like a rattlesnake, but they have no rattles. If they are in leaf litter it’s very convincing. I almost always see them next to water, especially close to swampy ground.

A friend killed this one crossing the road by his pasture. It had to go!!!

Big video, 7mb...

 

[Pearl]

For folks who might not know…. This is a Cottonmouth! If you can see the fangs you are standing waaaaaay too close. They will come directly at you!!! They’ve chased me up a tree before. It’s a highly aggressive snake that rarely bites. But they will convince you that they are going to. 10ft is safe from a rattlesnake. Not so with a cottonmouth, 15/20ft is better.

They are deceptively small, rarely more than 30inches. Usually about 2 feet like this one. The older the snake the blacker they appear, almost completely black. They have another trick, their tail will sometimes vibrate just like a rattlesnake, but they have no rattles. If they are in leaf litter it’s very convincing. I almost always see them next to water, especially close to swampy ground.

A friend killed this one crossing the road by his pasture. It had to go!!!

Big video, 7mb...




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Great post!! Thank you!!

 

[Supervisor42]

For folks who might not know…. This is a Cottonmouth! If you can see the fangs you are standing waaaaaay too close. They will come directly at you!!! They’ve chased me up a tree before. It’s a highly aggressive snake that rarely bites. But they will convince you that they are going to take your leg off. 10ft is safe from a rattlesnake. Not so with a cottonmouth, 15/20ft is better.

They are deceptively small, rarely more than 30inches. Usually about 2 feet like this one. The older the snake the blacker they appear, almost completely black. They have another trick, their tail will sometimes vibrate just like a rattlesnake, but they have no rattles. If they are in leaf litter it’s very convincing. I almost always see them next to water, especially close to swampy ground.

A friend killed this one crossing the road by his pasture. It had to go!!!

Big video, 7mb...




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They cut off the best part of the video: "the shot".

 

[Peanut]

I had to edit the video. It was way too big to post. I had to use a cable to get it on my computer, too big to email. I chopped off the first 7sec and the last 4. Then i had to shrink the frame size and strip out the audio. It's still a very big file, some folks might have trouble viewing it. Sorry!

 

[Supervisor42]

I had to edit the video. It was way to big to post. I had to use a cable to get it on my computer, too big to email. I chopped off the first 7sec and the last 4. Then i had to shrink the frame size and strip out the audio. It's still a very big file, some folks might have trouble viewing it. Sorry!

Well, upload it to YouTube and link to it.
I wanna see it get killed!

 

[Peanut]

Cottonmouths et al are why i keep a pair of snake gaiters in the truck along with a good staff. Both have saved me in the past, been struck by copperheads a couple times. Also have a bush axe. I go to snake infested creeks all summer hunting plants but I go equipped for the critters.

Below are different places i go monthly. To get help i'd have to walk 100yrds+, only one is close to a paved road. So I'm very careful. I don't get in a hurry, know exactly where i'm stepping. Snakes are there, just have to see them first. I expect to see one every time i hit the woods.

In the south copperheads bite more people than rattlers and cottonmouths combined. They strike blind at anything that moves. If you step in range they bite. But cottonmouths are far more intimidating, they will make you run!

Bottom pic, a copperhead that almost got me! I put on my gaiters, stepped to the rear of my truck to get my staff. Never got that far, I had to jump this little devil. All i had was channel locks in my pocket so I beaned him. Here ya go Sup! the aftermath!

 

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[Pearl]

Dang, to be young again! There was a day long ago that if I would have seen this I would try it! Now I would just walk up to the post and lay on the ground..... that's where I would end up if I tried it today!

 

[elkhound]

Dang, to be young again! There was a day long ago that if I would have seen this I would try it! Now I would just walk up to the post and lay on the ground..... that's where I would end up if I tried it today!

i know a woman hardly had any balance...she started working on it daily..tiny steps at a time to get to her goal...she done it by time she set her limit...her goal you ask? to be able to ride a skateboard for the first time....at age 50 !

edit sorry yall i forgot to type her age.

 

[Supervisor42]

Dang, to be young again! There was a day long ago that if I would have seen this I would try it! Now I would just walk up to the post and lay on the ground..... that's where I would end up if I tried it today!

Aw c'mon now, you know what you'd do first....
You'd shake thahell out of that post just to hear her scream as she crashed to the ground.

 

[zannej]

I remember watching a documentary with a closeup of inside a cottonmouth's mouth. The narrator said "if you can see this, you are too close". Did we watch the same documentary? LOL.
I remember there was a kid from my school who went out waterskiing on some swampy area with his family. He fell into a cottonmouth nest-- multiple snake and they were not happy. He didn't survive.
When I was out in the yard I saw this bug-- don't know if it was a butterfly or moth but I'm leaning toward moth.

Before TSC moved the clearance section stuff (it was all gone when I went back a 2nd time today), I grabbed the last blue frog toy.

I like frogs and its a pretty blue and if I had more space and didn't have to worry about cats, I'd have tons of these little figures. They have cows and horses and all sorts of plastic critters.

 

[montanabill]

Anybody have too many olld tires and need to build a tunnel?

 

[Amish Heart]

That'd be a stinky tunnel to crawl thru.
That martial art young lady is something else. Reminds me of that old Jackie Chan move, "A Half A Loaf of Kung Fu"

 

[zoomzoom]

That'd be a stinky tunnel to crawl thru.

There's a story there. You crawl through tunnels?
Just a crude culvert IMHO.

 

[Amish Heart]

Not normally. Do you?

 

[zoomzoom]

Just kidding with you @Amish Heart

 

[Amish Heart]

Yep. I know.

 

[Patchouli]

Saw video and photos of a cottonmouth my son and his buddies and a couple of the dads encountered in Arkansas one summer. The CM was aggressive!!
@jazzy that’s so sad about the kid you knew.
A view from 7/4

 

[Weedygarden]

There was a culvert on my grandparents ranch that was in a low spot between their yard and a hill in a field. We used to crawl through it when we were pretty young. When the grandparents found out we crawled though it they told us not to do that again, because there might be snakes in there. They did have a lot of snakes around the yard.