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[Texas Ranger]

Gent name of Dave Wells is a nature photographer here in Texas, he was shooting bird shots, and had a Green Jay in his sites when this happened, and he kept on snapping.

More of Texas can be seen at this commercial site (no, not mine) http://www.scenicstore.com/Magazine-Prints/Texas-Highways/C_ID-130,1756,1759/index.mhtml

[Dan_Shade]

i hate snakes  >:(

[Burlkraft]

i hate snakes  >:(

What Dan said....

[hiya]

That makes 3 of us ;D
Richard

[jon12345]

If green jays are as annoying as blue jays then the snake was doin a favor  :D

[Radar67]

Only good one...is a dead one. Snakes that is.  ;)

Stew

[Tom]

I don't mind snakes as much as most folks.  Knowing that they may be poisonous makes me give them room.  Having a known poisonous snake in my yard brings out the defense mechanisms in me.  It brings out the 12 gauge too.  I usually feel a little guilty after dispatching one, but you can't have them around the house.

I still admire that they can travel without legs.  Have you ever seen one climb straight up a Pine tree? Marvelous.

I had a pet blue Indigo one time that would try to get back to me if I let someone else hold him.  I found him beneath a Sea Grape tree, on the beach south of Ft. Pierce and turned him loose a few weeks later in an orange grove west of town. He was over 6 feet long, as I recall.  The local paper came out and took a picture of him draped around my neck.  That was along about 1960 so he's probably gone to snake heaven by now.  :D

[Greg Cook]

Tom, I don't know where snake heaven is, but I hope that it's nowhere close to the one I'm headed to!

Come to think of it, you may have ben near snake heaven when you visited Woodbeard up here in Dismal  :D

Greg

[WDH]

Tom, the Indigo is endangered in GA now.  Don't now about Florida.

[Tom]

It is certainly one beautiful animal, and docile as a lamb.

[sawguy21]

That was a very pretty bird but snakes gotta eat too. Without them, we would be over run with mice and all kinds of other wonderful creatures.

[WDH]

In my recent control burn, I came across a little green snake that seemed confused by the proceedings.  I helped him (or her) along to a safe place.  My bet is most of ya'll cold natured folks in the upper latitudes aren't seeing many snakes lately.

[beenthere]

Oh yeah, we got snow snakes everywheres now......

Got attacked couple day ago.

[Gary_C]

Ya, and we have fleas to contend with too, billions and billions of them.  ;D

Snow-Fleas  (Springtails)         Achorutes Nivicola

[sprucebunny]

My bet is most of ya'll cold natured folks in the upper latitudes aren't seeing many snakes lately.

That's why some of us live in cold areas. Six months with no bugs or snakes ;D

Great picture, TR.

[jon12345]

In the spring some people who live in the right spots up north will be seeing snakes, hundreds, even thousands of them that hibernate together for the winter.  I'm not sure of the reason but I think it's so they're all around each other for mating in the spring when they start comin out.

[fuzzybear]

If I every see a snake up here I know the world has taken a serious turn. With 9 months of winter they can't survive.  Were pretty lucky....no skunks,opossum,racoons,or snakes.  Just lots of moose and caribou and wolves. ;D

[isawlogs]

  I had not seen the darn *&*&?% snake .......  Did I ever say I really hate those darn *&?%*&% sssnake ... hate um ....  just hate um .
   

[DanG]

TRanger, you're a real ambassador for Texas Tourism, ain't ya? :D :D

[scgargoyle]

We might have gators 'n snakes, but at least we don't have polar bears to deal with! :D

[isawlogs]

  Hey .. I see nutin wrong with those White fur black nose cuddly teddy bares ..... deys big enough to be seen ... and that dere story about dem bares having each a bed and eatin pouredge .. well its only a story ... dey dont hide in your sleepin bag ... or wait for you at your favorite swimin holle ... 
They only like to eat a cookie outa your kitchen once in a while .....  ;D

[Texas Ranger]

DanG, you know us southren boys know how ta handle situations like that, that's how we get some of our best boots, snake skin.  Sides, we been trying to keep milk sops outa Texas for a while, that's why we like to advertize that every thing down here has teeth, points, or poison. 

Let's us have a little open space and breathin room.