Let’s open it up and see: Continue reading
What’s in the fun box?
Well, that looks like fun!
Tag Archives: rattlesnake
Snake of the night
The dogs found this, about one foot from the house:
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.
What’s in the log?
Are there snakes there?
Answering Nancy’s question:
Why yes, there are snakes. This timber rattler was crawling into the vines: Continue reading
Squirrel and Snake
Why did the squirrel shake its tail?
Look closely in the bottom center.
Or try this one: Continue reading
In the Grass
Why did the snake cross the road?
To get out of the way of the car. Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 29 August 2009, Lowndes County, Georgia. Click through to the big picture to count the 9 rattles on this timber rattler.
Update: added links to just the snake Continue reading
Happy Fourth
In memory of that old privateer, Commodore Essex Hopkins (1718 – 1802),
first ranking officer of the U.S. Navy, and my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, here’s a picture of the Commodore’s flag: DONT TREAD ON ME.
Fred’s Rattler
Fred accidentally ran over a timber rattlesnake. It was still crawling. Maybe it’s OK.