Why are you lying in the driveway, snake?
Don’t you know there are dogs here?
Didn’t matter: the dogs never noticed.
-jsq
Why are you lying in the driveway, snake?
Don’t you know there are dogs here?
Didn’t matter: the dogs never noticed.
-jsq
Snake in the pine straw by the not-a-driveway.
Appears to be a black racer, Coluber constrictor. It lived up to its name by vanishing in an instant.
Black racers are harmless to humans. They eat small mice and rats, and anything else they can catch, such as toads, frogs, and lizards.
The dogs never even noticed this snake.
-jsq
Calling herpetologists.
It’s definitely not a rattlesnake. Doesn’t seem to be any sort of venemous serpent. Probably just a rat snake. Continue reading
What kind of snake is this?
Probably not a moccasin, because it doesn’t have any stripes, and I’ve never seen one leave its tail sticking out like that. Usually a cottonmouth will face you and hiss.
The dogs found another snake earlier that probably was a moccasin, so we made them come along.
We also saw an anhinga on the surface. Usually we see them perched in a tree or flying. It did eventually fly off and perch.
Arrow, Blondie, Honeybun, Gretchen
Arrow won’t admit she can swim
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This canebrake rattlesnake was too close to the farm workshop at Okra Paradise Farms, so I used a hoe to put it in a cardboard box and took it far away.
How? I show the snake a hoe. It either gets in the box with a nudge from the hoe, or it gets in the box in two pieces.
Here’s a
video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLk2OxkA4UvxPbeykZkfos36dRbcvIIeu Continue reading
Maybe I should clean out that gutter more frequently.
I’m assuming an oak snake left that skin, but of course I assumed that about the snake that turned out to be a rattlesnake.
Anyway, I also had to remove the grapevine, because it had grown roots into the gutter, completely blocking it up.
-jsq
The dogs found this snake, and Gretchen didn’t like it.
Canebrake rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus
Honeybun, Blondie, and Arrow led me straight to this Crotalus horridus. Unlike our previous dogs, they kept their distance.
Gretchen called them back, I got the hoe and a cardboard box, put the snake in the box, the box in the truck, and drove the truck miles away.
This rattler now has woods to catch mice with nobody living nearby.
-jsq
Again, Gretchen was the first to see a snake.
She still didn’t want me to pick it up, though.
-jsq
Mark it on the calendar: first time Gretchen ever saw a snake first.
All the dogs and I walked right past this timber rattler in the front driveway.
She didn’t think I should pick up this Crotalus horridus. I don’t know why.
-jsq
This rat snake was stuck on the sticky traps.
Fortunately, vegetable oil softens the glue and the snake writhed free.
Didn’t seem in any hurry to go anywhere. Continue reading