in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[collingwood]

Is that a brown snake?!

Yes!

 

[KristyHall]

That's also another snake that lives here!

what a beauty!

 

[collingwood]

That's also another snake that lives here!

Sorry this one's a red belly black snake also venomous!

 

[perchie.girl]

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you are luckey.... you dont even have Timber rattlers? Probably too cold.

We have about Nine different kinds of Rattlesnakes... I dont think we have any other kind of poisonous snake

I have found one in my yard left it alone, one in Grandmas yard I was forced to kill it , and one in my tack room a baby that had curled up in the doorway I must have stepped over it several times. It was a cool morning.... So I figured it needed time to warm up so this was my chance. I put a small bucket over the top and slid cardboard underneath... Tipped the whole thing over and turned it loose in the river bed. Still lethargic. Yay.

My neighbor Tom was doing some brush clearing around the house and he found and killed two Females full of eggs.


red diamond.... the others have dark grainite like markings


This is what I am used to seeing.... Only bigger around in the middle Like the diameter of a soup can....

Tom killed em... I asked him what he did with the snakes. He showed me the skins drying on a board... He said the meat is marinating in Teryaki... Waste not want not.

deb

 

[KristyHall]

Sorry this one's a red belly black snake also venomous!

It's australia, I am pretty sure everything there wants you dead.

Well except your possums. and then I live in Alabama and i am stuck with these possums

There was a mistake, I think we got Australia's possum.

 

[hennible]

you do have a snake that is both mildly venomous and mildly poisonous, the grass snake. It s rear fanged and it's venom is so mild that even if it did envenomate you, you would not be able to tell the difference between the sting of the venom and the sting of those sharp little teeth. It is only recently scientists even realized the common grass and ribbon snake was venomous!

Very interesting. You rarely even seen garter snakes here I've lived here for 20 something years and I think I've seen a garter snake maybe five times and I spent a lot of time outside and in the bush etc.

Yes!

So scary! Bears and moose... That's what I got. The red and black snake is beautiful.

Yeah no rattlers this far north deb, I think there rattlesnakes in the Caribou area though, further south, British Columbia's semidesert zone...

 

[KristyHall]

you are luckey.... you dont even have Timber rattlers? Probably too cold.

We have about Nine different kinds of Rattlesnakes... I dont think we have any other kind of poisonous snake

I have found one in my yard left it alone, one in Grandmas yard I was forced to kill it , and one in my tack room a baby that had curled up in the doorway I must have stepped over it several times. It was a cool morning.... So I figured it needed time to warm up so this was my chance. I put a small bucket over the top and slid cardboard underneath... Tipped the whole thing over and turned it loose in the river bed. Still lethargic. Yay.

My neighbor Tom was doing some brush clearing around the house and he found and killed two Females full of eggs.


red diamond.... the others have dark grainite like markings


This is what I am used to seeing.... Only bigger around in the middle Like the diameter of a soup can....

Tom killed em... I asked him what he did with the snakes. He showed me the skins drying on a board... He said the meat is marinating in Teryaki... Waste not want not.

deb

We have rattle snakes, water moccasins, copper heads, and the mildly venomous hog nose and grass snake. Further south there is the coral snake and the seas snake. I think out of all of them the water moccasin (AKA cotton mouth) freaks me out the most. Copper heads are pretty mild in the venom department, rattle snakes tend to warn you, but a water moccasin blends in with the murky swamp water so well you are liable to be bit before you even saw it coming.

 

[collingwood]

It's australia, I am pretty sure everything there wants you dead.

Well except your possums. and then I live in Alabama and i am stuck with these possums

There was a mistake, I think we got Australia's possum.

Yeah basically every famous native things are venomous but Australia isn't as deadly as everybody thinks! We do have really venomous snakes, spiders, killer sharks, killer crocodiles, killer box jellyfish, killer blue ringed octopus, even our kangaroos when threatened kill people! But I mean in Africa there are heaps of diseases so Australians are pretty lucky!

 

[perchie.girl]

Yup disease is more scary... Nite everyone

deb

 

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