The dogs alerted me to this.
Fortunately, they kept their distance.
How many rattles do you count?
-jsq
The dogs alerted me to this.
Fortunately, they kept their distance.
How many rattles do you count?
-jsq
Snaky motion across the road to Chesser Island, Okefenokee NWR, November 19th 2016.
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No rattles, didn’t coil, seemed like a harmless little oak snake.
No bigger than from the O to the A in GOODYEAR (less than two feet long). Continue reading
Let’s open it up and see: Continue reading
Yep, it’s a timber rattler. You can’t see the rattles in this picture (although you can in these other ones by Gretchen), but it had three.
So I put it in a box. It didn’t like that: it really rattled. We drove it to a better spot in the woods, where it’s very happy now.
Good dogs, Yellow Dog and Brown Dog! They notified us but did not try to bite the snake.
Pictures by John S. Quarterman and Gretchen Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 1 June 2011.
-jsq
Update 8:45 AM 3 July 2011: Fixed picture link and added link to flickr set with Gretchen’s additional pictures.
Why yes, there are snakes. This timber rattler was crawling into the vines: Continue reading
Much easier to see in this one: Continue reading