A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[Molpet]

Have only seen a couple snakes this spring.

Probably shouldn't be this way but imho only good snake is a dead one.

If I had venomous snakes, I might feel like that too... There is a little rattlesnake, that has to chew on you because of the fang placement, supposed to be around here.... But I have never seen any.
However the copper heads and water moccasins are moving north and may end up here..... Did have a diamond back rattlesnake show up.. figured it fell off a truck on I 80 since they aren't any where near here. I80 runs through the property

 

[Molpet]

Snakes are like bats.. creatures of the underworld that should not exist..

God made them to eat bugs and rodents... Bats eat their weight in mosquitos. They sometimes nest in the corner of the siding. I think they are cool, swooping around getting the mosquitos... Of course they get rabies every so often, so I don't pick up them

 

[ketojenn]

Yeah, snakes and bats don't bother me. I have a bat house up high on the south side of my house actually. I just don't like being surprised by them.

I used to take my boys backpacking all the time, all over the states, so we've encountered a few snakes. My favorite was the snake that was sunning itself on a rock down in Tennessee and struck out at my son as he walked by. Scared the bejesus out of him and he almost went over a steep embankment trying to jump out the the way. I was coming up behind him and saw it go down. Could not stop laughing. It turned out to be a harmless queen snake, but in the moment it might as well have been deadly. We continued down the path after that to the waterfall and as we were soaking in the pool of water, a different snake slithered by. My son renamed that trail, 'Valley of the Snakes'.

 

[duluthralphie]

God made them to eat bugs and rodents... Bats eat their weight in mosquitos. They sometimes nest in the corner of the siding. I think they are cool, swooping around getting the mosquitos... Of course they get rabies every so often, so I don't pick up them

Having been bitten by a rabid bat and endured 21 injections into my lil tummy ( back when it was lil) ... I will never be persuaded by the PETA people’s arguments that “bats are people too”..


Nothing brings me geater joy than to see a bat house go up in flames with a thousand bats inside... unless there is 2,000 inside.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

So you’re warped too? I never knew.

I used to have a pet snake named Caspian. He want anything big or special, just a little corn snake. The cat broke screen on top of the cage and he escaped and based on the weird gas that the dog had the next couple days, i think he ate him :/

If I had venomous snakes, I might feel like that too... There is a little rattlesnake, that has to chew on you because of the fang placement, supposed to be around here.... But I have never seen any.
However the copper heads and water moccasins are moving north and may end up here..... Did have a diamond back rattlesnake show up.. figured it fell off a truck on I 80 since they aren't any where near here. I80 runs through the property

We have copperheads, moccasins, and some rattlesnakes. I guess the neighbors up the road killed a rattler last summer. We usually only see black rat snakes here though.

God made them to eat bugs and rodents... Bats eat their weight in mosquitos. They sometimes nest in the corner of the siding. I think they are cool, swooping around getting the mosquitos... Of course they get rabies every so often, so I don't pick up them

There's an old abandoned church not far from here that is a protected bat nest. There are thousands of them there! Our parents used to take us there at dusk when we were kids and we'd stand in the graveyard as they came out. They're come within a couple inches of us and turn. It was pretty cool

 

[CindyinSD]

I grew up in Florida, on a lake, so lots of snakes. Two little brothers, so liking snakes was a survival mechanism. They could not tease me with them. I’d just say, “Cool snake.”

We used to catch these little black ones we called yellow-belly ring necks. The ring was bright orange-red. They would coil around your finger and it was lots of fun scaring baby-sitters with them. Maybe 6” long. Very cute. Hardly any snakes here. Too high for rattlers. We see the occasional grass snake. Don’t like bats. They’re messy, destructive flying rodents that seem able to find their way into anywhere.

 

[duluthralphie]

There's an old abandoned church not far from here that is a protected bat nest. There are thousands of them there! Our parents used to take us there at dusk when we were kids and we'd stand in the graveyard as they came out. They're come within a couple inches of us and turn. It was pretty cool

With a box of matches, a good torch and 5 gallons of Fuel oil. You could make a huge effort in the survival of mankind...


Not that I would burn an old church down...but if it was full of bats..and it caught fire and they all died...who am I to judge.

 

[memphis]

Hi folks! Still showing dogs. At the Aussie National Specialty with the coonhound! The only dog with a tail for miles!
R2elk...mentioned my favorite snake....a Hog Nose. Snakes never bothered me. I find them interesting .

 

[Bantambird]

My great grandma let bats nest in most of the barns, along with house and barn swallows. Her house eaves were a mass of house swallow mud nests, all the way around. She had a huge street light in the yard that stayed on at night to attract the bugs in for the bats. Still, it was way out in nowhere so there were more than enough bugs for the swallows and bats plus some for the frogs in the well overflow ( artesian, natural 200 psi out of the ground, has to be capped and with a pressure reducer and still has overflow without any electric) the toads, and everything else, and yet we still get bit by mosquitoes.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Found a story on the bat church

http://moshannon.pasierra.org/OTT/OTT08-07BatColony.htm