2022 Snake Spotting Thread

[Sasquatch]

Spring is here, what legless reptilians have you encountered so far this year?

I found the first snake of the year on our property while walking the dogs a couple days ago. @Hoji (or any other more knowledgeable snake people) correct me if I'm wrong, but looks like a king snake?

He was sunning himself and wasn't paying much heed to the dogs, and the dogs weren't paying much heed to him until one was sniffing for a place to shit, and got too close. He moved, dog spotted the movement and got curious. No one was harmed and dude slithered into the brush to hide.

 

[Katydid1984]

He's cool looking!!

 

[skfullgun]

Goodness. I'm not looking forward to seeing those slithery buggers .

 

[Hoji]

Looks more like a southern black racer than a king. You are in their region. ( albeit the far western edge of it)

 

[deemus]

Should be reiterated that unless its poisonous, let it live.

They eat stuff we don't want around.

 

[candcallen]

Let's just say it now. No pics of Pedo Joe or his ho.

 

[skfullgun]

My ridgeback is going crazy hunting moles. She lowers her head to the ground and intently listens. Then, she pounces on them and hurriedly digs like she has gone nuts! She has killed two in the last few days - that I know of.

Not reptilian, but certainly strange-looking critters!

 

[msharley]

 

[msharley]

 

[billtool]

Looks more like a southern black racer than a king. You are in their region. ( albeit the far western edge of it)

Bingo!

 

[EZ-E]

Its a king cobra, there's one on the loose & he headed south for the winter.

My ridgeback is going crazy hunting moles. She lowers her head to the ground and intently listens. Then, she pounces on them and hurriedly digs like she has gone nuts! She has killed two in the last few days - that I know of.

Not reptilian, but certainly strange-looking critters!

My dog has done a number on the moles, I've got holes all over the yard from her digging. I've seen her with 3 so far, but I'm gone most the day & know she has gotten more by the number of her craters.

 

[skfullgun]

Yup. I've started calling Josie my "Mole-Digger"!

If you had an aerial view of my yard it would probably look like the surface of the Moon! I have to be careful so I don't break an ankle in the holes she's dug!

There seems to an abundance of those critters this Spring.

 

[skfullgun]

At the first sign of spring, Papa mole pops his head high up out of the hole and sniffs around and says, "I smell bluebonnets".

Mama Mole excitedly pokes her head high up out of the ground and says, "And, I smell honeysuckle!"

Newborn Mole does his best to jump as high as he can and says, " and I smell....Mole-asses!"

 

[leVieux]

What kind of snake is this ?

Oh, wait, I found my glasses !

Never mind. . . . . . .

 

[Sasquatch]

My lil black racer friend was out again this morning in the same area I've seen him a couple times now - he must like that area.

We had three doggos on the leash for a stroll (I don't just let 'em outside to do business, still have to fix a bunch of fence, still too damn unmotivated to hang the gate on the driveway yet)

The dogs didn't even notice the snake - didn't even sniff in its direction.

 

[karlac]

Its a king cobra, there's one on the loose & he headed south for the winter.

LOL ... you ain't lived until you've shared a foxhole with one. DAMHIKT

 

[Texasjack]

Killed a small snake on my front porch yesterday. What kind? A Texas dead snake.

 

[FireInTheWire]

Nothing yet

 

[Axxe55]

None yet either, but I am now using a light for the evening walks with the dog, JIC!

 

[mdf9183]

Saw a three foot diamond back on my road when I went to check the mail a few days ago. He was sunning himself and slithered off when i got near him.