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Jul 4, 2020 20:49:08   #
JRiepe Loc: Southern Illinois
 
There are many cottonmouths at the state conservation area not far from me. On February 3rd of this year we had an unusually warm day which brought this snake out to sun itself. It was on the boat dock that I walked to the end of looking up hoping to see an osprey or eagle. On my way back no longer looking up I saw this snake and realized I must have walked right past without seeing it. I'm sure he had not warmed up enough to strike luckily for me. But I also believe had he been warm enough his first instinct would be to flee. If I had stepped on him though it probably would have been a different story.


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Jul 4, 2020 20:55:07   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
What a great shot of a Cottonmouth in his warning mode.

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Jul 4, 2020 20:56:28   #
Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV
 
Lucky you, that could have been really a bad situation!

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Jul 4, 2020 20:56:32   #
Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV
 
Lucky you, that could have been really a bad situation!

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Jul 4, 2020 22:02:43   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
I didn't realize they went that far up the Miss!

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Jul 4, 2020 23:25:58   #
Quixdraw Loc: x
 
I'd have paid for it, but I'd have damaged the walkway without even a moment of hesitation.

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Jul 5, 2020 05:58:42   #
DaveO Loc: Northeast CT
 
Great shot, but it's giving me cotton mouth!

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Jul 5, 2020 06:49:35   #
cdayton
 
Nice shot - I assume you used your 28mm lens.

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Jul 5, 2020 06:57:11   #
FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA
 
JRiepe wrote:
There are many cottonmouths at the state conservation area not far from me. On February 3rd of this year we had an unusually warm day which brought this snake out to sun itself. It was on the boat dock that I walked to the end of looking up hoping to see an osprey or eagle. On my way back no longer looking up I saw this snake and realized I must have walked right past without seeing it. I'm sure he had not warmed up enough to strike luckily for me. But I also believe had he been warm enough his first instinct would be to flee. If I had stepped on him though it probably would have been a different story.
There are many cottonmouths at the state conservat... (show quote)

nasty buggers !!! They don't have a real good sense of humor.

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Jul 5, 2020 06:58:43   #
nimbushopper Loc: Tampa, FL
 
Good catch, they are aggressive snakes! I didn't realize they were that far north.

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Jul 5, 2020 07:10:05   #
steve49 Loc: massachusetts
 
Yikes.

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Jul 5, 2020 07:31:06   #
Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida
 
Great capture.
Thanks for posting.

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Jul 5, 2020 07:43:56   #
SMPhotography Loc: Pawleys Island, SC
 
Nice shot of a cottonmouth posturing or "gaping".

I am licensed to keep (but not show) venomous reptiles in FL. For the last 30+ years I have had numerous different kinds of rattlers, copperheads and cottonmouths and when it comes to just plain nasty dispositions, the cottonmouth is in a league of its own. Copperheads are by far the most docile and slow to anger venomous reptiles in the US.

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Jul 5, 2020 08:26:25   #
Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.
 
As a child growing up in South Carolina we would walk the creeks looking for blackberry bushes and were always listening for one of these buggers to drop off a bush into the water. We carried rocks to throw at them to drive them off. When I was about 11 I was walking behind my father, who was going through high weeds on a bulldozer and was bitten. I never saw the snake but assume it was a copperhead. It feels about like a hornet getting hold of you. Needless to say, I don't like snakes.

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Jul 5, 2020 08:39:27   #
JRiepe Loc: Southern Illinois
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
What a great shot of a Cottonmouth in his warning mode.


Check my avatar. That's a better one that I took right off snake road. We have a road that is closed off for specified periods in the Spring and Fall for snake migrations. Thanks for replying.

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