2021 Snake Spotting

[Texas45]

That is juvenile/adolescent Copperhead. You can see the discoloration at the tip of his tail still. When they are young, it’s yellow. Definitely not something you want on your porch.

Took out this CH on the land this evening.
3rd one in the same general local by what we refer to now asCopperhead tree.

22 magnum Fd up his head purdy good.


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[billtool]

Took out this CH on the land this evening.
3rd one in the same general local by what we refer to now asCopperhead tree.

22 magnum Fd up his head purdy good.


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Good shootin'! What gun dispatched it?

 

[Hoji]

Little coachwhip from a few years ago.

and a bigger one that visits me on the porch from time to time.

 

[Texas45]

Good shootin'! What gun dispatched it?

Heritage rough rider 22 revolver with the 22 mag cyl


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[Sasquatch]

Took out this CH on the land this evening.
3rd one in the same general local by what we refer to now asCopperhead tree.

22 magnum Fd up his head purdy good.


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A friend shared something the other day that since the cicadas are out in force, the copperheads - who love them some cicadas - will be found near the bases of trees and often in the branches of smaller trees, as they're going after their buggy meals. We have so much damn brush on our property at the moment I've been extra careful while walking the puppers or just walking our property. I don't want to run face-first into a copperhead.

 

[Glenn B]

My son bought a house, I guess it was last month, maybe the month before. He was in his yard recently and came across this little guy; in his text to me he said he almost stepped on it:

That is a really nice specimen and a specimen is what it wound up being - albeit headless - after he whacked it. It is amazing a thing as beautiful as that can kill you (although most Copperhead bites are not fatal but certainly can be agonizing).

He also found a nice baby three toed box turtle a day or two ago:

I guess he bought his house in a herpetological Paradise! Of course, he did not behead the box turtle, in fact he is hoping to keep it.

 

[Axxe55]

 

[Sasquatch]

Saturday night coming home around 8:30, we're pulling up to our driveway, I see this guy in the street. He'd pretty obviously came off our property, and got hit by a car (I think the car that met us about 500 feet before our driveway)

I stopped because I haven't seen any venomous snakes yet this year, and wanted to verify what it was. Was my wife's first encounter with a dangerous snake since moving here, she was both thrilled and scared.

We went out half an hour later to see if he had moved or succumbed to his wound, and unfortunately for him, he didn't make it. He laid in the road for a day and then something came along and ate him (most of him, they left a little patch of skin behind)

 

[BRD@66]

Saturday night coming home around 8:30, we're pulling up to our driveway, I see this guy in the street. He'd pretty obviously came off our property, and got hit by a car (I think the car that met us about 500 feet before our driveway)

I stopped because I haven't seen any venomous snakes yet this year, and wanted to verify what it was. Was my wife's first encounter with a dangerous snake since moving here, she was both thrilled and scared.

We went out half an hour later to see if he had moved or succumbed to his wound, and unfortunately for him, he didn't make it. He laid in the road for a day and then something came along and ate him (most of him, they left a little patch of skin behind)

Looks like an example of the rare, venomous "couldabeenahatband snake.

 

[MTA]

I didnt know this thread existed until now but I found this today dead on arrival. Never seen one in person before. It was curled up near a patch of woods that my dog likes to chase rabbits through. Snake boot season for sure

 

[satx78247]

MTA89,

FYI, we seem to have "a BUMPER CROP" of assorted sorts of Pit Vipers this Spring in TX.
(The Nature Center in Boerne & our other similar Centers have had a GREAT MANY reports of RATTLERS, COPPERHEADS & COTTONMOUTHS, already since 01MAR21. - So far, I know of NO reports of CORAL SNAKE sightings.)

yours, satx
TMN, Alamo Area Chapter

 

[oldag]

Had a 5' long rat snake on the back porch.

 

[Sasquatch]

Looks like an example of the rare, venomous "couldabeenahatband snake.

I was thinking I'd like his skin, but there was more damage than was visible in the pix, so I'm going to wait for a better specimen to come along. Besides, this was a juvenile, so it wouldn't have made a very large skin

 

[Big Green]

Saw this little guy on the way to church this morning. First one I’ve seen in the wild. It was about 2’ long.

 

[BRD@66]

How do you know that he was on his way to church?
(purty dam big snake & a really nice hatband)

 

[ZX9RCAM]

How do you know that he was on his way to church?
(purty dam big snake & a really nice hatband)

Beat me to it....

 

[Coyote9]

Took my dog to rattlesnake avoidance training Saturday and learned that I can no longer hear a rattler more than 10' away... need to start wearing hearing aides on hikes!

 

[Vaquero]

Took my dog to rattlesnake avoidance training Saturday and learned that I can no longer hear a rattler more than 10' away... need to start wearing hearing aides on hikes!

It's a big concern of mine.

 

[jrbfishn]

I typically walk my dog out in the country after dark. I wear a very bright head light for that very reason. I can't hear shit.

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[oldag]

It's a big concern of mine.

Don't worry about it. Many rattlers no longer "rattle".