2022 Snake Spotting Thread
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No worries, you cleared it up .
I like snakes, but would run in screaming terror if we had 8' Copperheads.
GasGuzzler
Active Member
Haven't seen a golf snake in a while due to drought but I saw a 4' copperhead in very shallow but clear water (narrow creek with overgrowth) today. Did not stop to take a pic.
Definitely not trying to be a dick, but are you sure it was a copperhead? They don’t normally get that large/long. But I’m not saying they can’t.
I killed one last night that was just shy of 2 feet long, and I thought that was a big one. It was coming straight at me, very aggressively, and I fortunately had my pistol with rat shot to take care of it.
It was about 10 o’clock at night, and I actually heard it coming toward me, rustling through the pine needles, and hit it with a spotlight, and then it started toward me even more aggressively. The smaller ones usually freeze when I hit them with the spotlight, but not this one!
It was actually the “coolest”, as in least HOT, night we’ve had in several weeks.
But, It was still about 90° at 10 o’clock!
In Beaumont and around Saratoga and Batson, the copperheads were 2 to 2-1/2 feet at the biggest and thick like cottonmouths. Around Conroe they were much smaller and thin. None were aggressive. Moccasins, however, up to 3 feet and aggressive.
I wonder if aggressivity has increased. Now I’ve seen aggressive garter snakes. The copperheads described here would not enhance my cool.
I wonder if aggressivity has increased. Now I’ve seen aggressive garter snakes. The copperheads described here would not enhance my cool.
Nuthin a shovel won’t fix.
GasGuzzler
Active Member
I did not stop to straighten him out and measure nor did I interview said snake.
Where in Texas, do “moles” exist ? I’ve seen lots of prairie dogs, nutria, rats, etc. but never a “mole”.
Axxe55
Retiretgtshit stirrer
All over the place. We have plenty of them in East Texas.
Have tonnes of the little bastards in our yard. They love digging and leaving behind their tunnels and exit holes. Neighbor's dog (natural hunter) digs the furry blind little bastards out and kills 'em. That dog also has a nose for finding and dispatching venomous snakes - so far this year he's lead to the demise of half a dozen coral snakes and a few more copperheads than that. Last week I was talking to his owners, they said they were out moving something in their new shop, saw the dog shaking his head whipping something around, went over to discover he was whipping a coral snake back & forth. Snake didn't survive that encounter. 95lb Belgian Malinois
So all that is in or near Montgomery County ?
Very familiar with those other critters & snakes, but I had no idea Texas had moles.
