Christmas Snake

[fishpharmer]

Took a little drive in the country (neighborhood) and met up with this little fella...



First time i recall seeing a snake on Christmas day around here.  Just a harmless and beneficial gray rat snake.  It was moving mighty slow.

[Texas Ranger]

Bless his poor little cold heart.

[Dave Shepard]

We only have snow snakes around here this time of year.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I wish I had him in my barn!

   I once shot a large cottonmouth swimming in a partially frozen beaver pond in N. Fla while duck hunting. To this day I have no idea why he was out moving around in that kind of weather.

[Ricker]

Just how long is that snake?  We don't have snakes like that any time of year here.  I am not afraid of snakes but if I was raised where they have critters like that I just might be.

[fishpharmer]

Ricker, stretched out it was around 3 feet long.

[Ricker]

That plenty long but that picture looked like 6 feet to me.  You rarely see see a two footer around here. 

[LeeB]

They get up to 6 feet. Get them around the feed barn all the time. I tried hauling a few off but they usually beat me back home. Others took a couple of days, even after hauling them over a mile or more. I would just leave them be but Lindy is scared to death of them. They can be a little aggressive too.

[WV Sawmiller]

   They won't hurt you - but they will make you hurt yourself!

   Don't remember how many of my friends have shot holes in the bottom of their boats when a harmless water snake dropped in the boat with them. I know I have  broken more than my share of paddles messing with them, usually when they were minding their own business.

[Texas Ranger]

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   Don't remember how many of my friends have shot holes in the bottom of their boats when a harmless water snake dropped in the boat with them. I know I have  broken more than my share of paddles messing with them, usually when they were minding their own business.
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I have told this story before, some where, but, my dad and I fishing in a paddle john boat, me on one end, him in the other.  We pulled up to a tall bluff, overgrown with brush, when a snake dropped into the middle of the boat.  Dad invented the live well, and I learned every cuss word now in my vocabulary.

[fishpharmer]

 :D :D

[Texas Ranger]

Rat snake slithered by my daughter and I yesterday on our walk.  Only 75 degrees, so he was active.

[coxy]

sss 

[Planman1954]

My nephew was near a pond by my house and saw this moccasin a few days ago. He killed it.  They are OUT since we are having warm weather. I've been watching a little more since then.

 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Makes the hair on my neck stand up.