Category Archives: Snakes

Tiny canebrake rattlesnake 2024-08-17

This timber rattlesnake was crossing our front driveway. Four dogs walked past and didn’t notice.

[Tail and Head, canebrake timber rattlesnake 2024-08-17]
Tail and Head, canebrake timber rattlesnake 2024-08-17

In their defense, this snake was only maybe a foot and a half long. Still, a nice canebrake, Crotalus horridus.

Eat mice and get bigger, snake. Continue reading

Snake chose poorly, say dogs 2019-05-18

Update 2019-05-20: A more likely identification.

Definitely not a rattlesnake. Whatever it is, it chose poorly by showing up right in front of the dogs’ doghouse.

Don’t know which dog dislikes them most, maybe Yellow Dog. Continue reading