Even the water moccasins in Texas
Jun 6, 2016 10:58:12 #
f8bengal
Loc: West Nawth Carolinah
From ex Louisiana coonass snakehunter: Best I can tell, most would be cottonmouths, short, heavy body.
Jun 6, 2016 11:03:27 #
Jun 6, 2016 12:31:21 #
I remember swimming in the local lake in north Texas when I was a kid. You would be swimming along and a water moccasin would swim right by you. Gives me the creeps thinking about it now. I used to take a revolver loaded with shot shells when I went fishing. Nothing like reeling in what you though was a fish and finding it was a snake instead.
Another good reason I moved to western Oregon by choice.
Another good reason I moved to western Oregon by choice.
Jun 6, 2016 13:34:21 #
Jun 6, 2016 16:45:31 #
Think I'll pass on the boat. Don't know what I'd find when the cover is removed. It also make me wonder if I'd want to swim in the water after the water recedes. Mahalo for sharing.
Jun 6, 2016 18:23:44 #
JoAnneK01 wrote:
Think I'll pass on the boat. Don't know what I'd find when the cover is removed. It also make me wonder if I'd want to swim in the water after the water recedes. Mahalo for sharing.
I'm with you. Wouldn't want one of those suckers to be in holding tank when it makes up its mind to come out thru the head!! Yikes!!
Jun 6, 2016 19:33:26 #
Jun 6, 2016 20:02:13 #
Only if you want one pan fried for lunch or dinner
PAR4DCR wrote:
Is the owner going to charge extra for the snakes??
Don
Don
Jun 6, 2016 21:24:18 #
Indigos kill and eat rattle snakes, mice, gophers, and many other critters considered vermin; so what do you want one snake or a yard full of mice, gophers and rattle snakes?
Jun 6, 2016 23:25:16 #
tramsey wrote:
Indigos kill and eat rattle snakes, mice, gophers, and many other critters considered vermin; so what do you want one snake or a yard full of mice, gophers and rattle snakes?
Can you buy these Indigo snakes?
Jun 7, 2016 00:31:12 #
About this: " not all snakes are bad and most will leave you alone if not molested"
Playing in a Texas creek at age 10, I paddled my inner-tube ashore and grabbed some tall grass. This revealed a coiled water moccasin sunning itself. The serpent slithered into the water beside me -- impossible to see it.
That snake was gracious enough not to bite me. I think snakes know they must share their domain. I'll leave it at that.
Playing in a Texas creek at age 10, I paddled my inner-tube ashore and grabbed some tall grass. This revealed a coiled water moccasin sunning itself. The serpent slithered into the water beside me -- impossible to see it.
That snake was gracious enough not to bite me. I think snakes know they must share their domain. I'll leave it at that.
sr71 wrote:
Mate you kill a BLUE INDIGO you just might answer to a higher calling, not all snakes are bad and most will leave you alone if not molested.....
Jun 7, 2016 00:34:03 #
Indigos are in trouble. They're now protected, so if you do happen to come across one, better leave it alone unless you want the Fish and wildlife folks after you. Sixty-five or seventy years ago, when I was a kid in South Florida. I used to see Indigos several times a year. The last time Isaw one in the wild was over forty years ago. ....... Coot
ken hubert wrote:
Can you buy these Indigo snakes?
Jun 7, 2016 02:30:22 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
The News said these Texas floods come about every 500 years. We won't be around when the next one comes. Thankfully.
Jun 7, 2016 08:42:55 #
That is a shame they sure are a pretty snake.
Lazy Old Coot wrote:
Indigos are in trouble. They're now protected, so if you do happen to come across one, better leave it alone unless you want the Fish and wildlife folks after you. Sixty-five or seventy years ago, when I was a kid in South Florida. I used to see Indigos several times a year. The last time Isaw one in the wild was over forty years ago. ....... Coot
Jun 7, 2016 10:39:05 #
They're trying to pour a driveway next door....all the way back to the garage. The forms have been in place since the end of April, with sand and rebar in place. The owner of the company doing the work even checked the weather one Saturday and thought the rain was going north of us, so he ordered cement. By the time it got here, we were deluged and he had to eat the cement....$1000 worth. 1st time in 15 years he'd had to do that, he said. We're now looking at a week of good weather, so they're out there getting the water out and blowing out the leaves. It should dry out this week.
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