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Woodcutter_Mo

 Ticks are awful in this area too this spring. There is no shortage of snakes that I can tell. I've had several run-ins with black snakes, a few copperheads, garter snakes and one speckled king snake so far. My boss has been having alot of black snakes trying to get in his house as well  :D. Maybe there are just alot of rodents around this year, I haven't noticed any more than usual though.
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Mr. MagicMan I haven't thought of that song since my Grandfather died back in 1991. He would play that song for all the grandkids when we would visit and we all loved it. Thank you for posting that.
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Woodcutter_Mo

 I haven't heard that song since I was in kindergarten. Our teacher had that song on a cassette tape and played it for the class, all of us youngsters had fun with that song in kindergarten  :D
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wifey just heard the dog barking, came back in with the biggest rat snake i have seen in a while. It was more than 6'.
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reelman65

75 Acres of hardwoods that i want to try to optimize for HW growth, health and habitat. Also interested in creating a few small stands of fruit/nut trees and sample of different native species

LeeB

Maybe it's just the perspective of the camera but something doesn't look right about that shot. Says the snake is 6.5 ft but in the shot the doubled up snake appears to be the same length as his shoulders to the ground. That would make him very short. 
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DPatton

 :-\ I'm with Jeff on this one. You guys are making me wish I lived further north! Around my house we don't even use the S-WORD from April to November! And yes I too have nightmares about them DanG things!
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Southside

Had a big black say hello yesterday when moving fencing for the cattle, was around 5' long.  Way out in a field so we each went our own ways. 
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WDH

I have a big black rat snake at the mill.  He likes to hang out under the sawmill shed in the air drying stacks.  He can get testy. 
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doctorb

Quote from: LeeB on May 18, 2018, 09:12:31 AM
Maybe it's just the perspective of the camera but something doesn't look right about that shot. Says the snake is 6.5 ft but in the shot the doubled up snake appears to be the same length as his shoulders to the ground. That would make him very short.
Lee-  It's the same technique we use to make our fish look bigger in photos.  Hold them closer to the camera.  I can't make out what instrument/tool/stick that guy is holding the snake with, but it's obviously extending the snake away from him and towards the camera, which gives the picture its distortion.
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   A 6.5' canebrake is a big rattler. I have seen a number of Eastern Diamondbacks that big or bigger but never a canebrake. The article makes it sound like he gave due consideration before killing it which I appreciate. 

   Yes, that photo technique is widely used to embellish the appearance of fish. Another technique is to always string the smallest fish up first and biggest last. Anybody seeing them will repeat the tale "He caught 35 crappie/catfish/bluegills/bass  and every one of them was at least this big."
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Woodcutter_Mo

 I found another fair size black snake in the yard, not quite as big as the other. He had'nt found the house yet so I put him out in the barn. Also seen a very large copperhead on a dirt road, wish I could have gotten a pic. He was way out in the middle of nowhere with no houses around so I don't figure he was hurting anything. I'd say he was pushing the 3' mark easily and very dark colored, probably getting ready to shed. He went off into the brush before I had a chance to look him over better. 
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WDH

I also removed a small black rat snake from the yard today.
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Magicman

I saw a good size Black Runner yesterday while mowing at the Cabin.  I did not remove it.
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WDH

My grandbabies, one 3 years old the other 1 old were coming for a visit today.  Better to remove the snake than deal with Grandma. 
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Southside

WDH - Is your mill snake still there? I think he was the one in my pasture the other day. Usually those guys want nothing to do with people, but that one got a bit pushy, we had a few words.  
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WDH

Oh yes.  Just a few minutes ago.  We had a polite conversation as I was gathering some stickers, but he had enough talk.  He slithered into stack of red oak slabs. 



 

You can see that he was all rumpled up.  He always had an attitude.  Apparently he was not in the mood for any parley. 
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coxy

you guys are way to kind  :rifle: fudd-smiley

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   I  ran into a small water snake (I assume - it had a red belly) snake day before yesterday while trimming the ditch in the back yard. I think I hit him a few licks with the string but not hard enough to seriously insure him. Plenty of insects, small frogs and tadpoles and such back there for him to feed on. If poison I'd have relocated or, in worse case, killed it but nearly all I see here are harmless water snakes and garter snakes. Sometimes the water snakes get in my minnow traps when I'm catching bait in the creek in the front yard. If alive I release them. If dead I may leave them for crawfish bait. Sometimes Sampson will bark at the garter snakes in the woodpile - never saw him catch one yet. I love him but he is not a very brave dog.

   My best little squirrel dog would sometimes tree one in the field in N. Fla. She had a different (fearful) bark and would be walking very gingerly in the grass putting one foot down at a time with her neck arched high looking carefully. 

   In Southern Africa one of the most popular dog breeds I saw was a Jack Russell Terrier. Largely because they chased and killed snakes and they had some really nasty snakes over there. (Some professional hunters also used a pack of them them to track wounded leopards. Evidently they were fast enough to avoid the cat while they would usually lose a hound or two when using big dogs.)
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Woodcutter_Mo

Quote from: coxy on May 20, 2018, 08:49:01 PM
you guys are way to kind  :rifle: fudd-smiley
Heck I'd even catch and kindly relocate the copperheads if I knew where to take them without putting someone else in danger  :D, it's hard to tell what else to do. The ones I've had to kill usually have several mice in them, I've got an appreciation for them but definitely have no intention of getting bit!  :o
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Southside

Quote from: coxy on May 20, 2018, 08:49:01 PM
you guys are way to kind  :rifle: fudd-smiley
The black rat snakes eat lots of mice and other small rodents, so they are good to have around, unless they find the chicken coop - then they get lazy and start to gobble up eggs and even a chick now and then.  Mr. Nice to Nature goes away when that happens.  
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Dave Shepard

I saw four dead snakes in the road today. Normally I see about one snake every three years. I don't like them at all, but try to give them some room. 
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Woodcutter_Mo

Quote from: Southside logger on May 21, 2018, 12:02:57 AM
Quote from: coxy on May 20, 2018, 08:49:01 PM
you guys are way to kind  :rifle: fudd-smiley
The black rat snakes eat lots of mice and other small rodents, so they are good to have around, unless they find the chicken coop - then they get lazy and start to gobble up eggs and even a chick now and then.  Mr. Nice to Nature goes away when that happens.  
I had a large black snake try to eat a couple of my hens, it couldn't swallow them whole and spit them back out but they still didn't make it. That's a pretty rare case though.
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