Texas

[AllenK RGV]

wikipedia says your childhood tale is just that. They get to 3meters. Still huge arse snakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drymarchon

 

[007Sean]

wikipedia says your childhood tale is just that. They get to 3meters. Still huge arse snakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drymarchon

Well, that snake never read wikipedia! If you have a sendero that's 12' wide and the snakes head and neck is a foot pass the 12' foot mark and it's tail is a foot on the other side....I'd say that was a 14' snake.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Well I was offended that my wifes facebook called our snake a juvenile. When is a 6 foot long snake a juvenile? I know we do not belong in the group SETX Snakes. As I am 8 hours drive away. They get Timber rattlers and milk snakes.

 

[007Sean]

Well I was offended that my wifes facebook called our snake a juvenile. When is a 6 foot long snake a juvenile? I know we do not belong in the group SETX Snakes. As I am 8 hours drive away. They get Timber rattlers and milk snakes.

We have Western Diamondbacks, here...I dispatched one 2 years ago in my driveway, it was 5.5'

Been here for 35 years, the last 3 years have been the only time that I have even seen a rattler on my place....I don't know why they have suddenly been showing up?...especially in and around my pens....mice? they have always been around my pens, so I don't think that's why they are showing up now.
We have Coral snakes, Copperheads, and Water Moccasins here too! And of course, Bullsnakes, some of them have been in the 5' to 6' class.
Until 3 years ago all I'd ever see in my pens were Copperheads.

Makes me pay a little better attention to where I place my foot...but I have always looked ahead of were I'm going to step but the rattlers here blend into the surroundings so well, it's difficult to see them sometimes.

A Copperhead did bite one of my Elliot pheasants. It didn't kill it but it lost its left leg. It just fell off one day, I didn't even notice it had been bit until I looked at the leg and saw the puncture wounds. it never even limped until it fell off.
How I know it was the Copperhead was because I killed it and the bird was right in front of the snake...almost like it was in shock or hypnotised by it. I was thinking, 'glad it didn't bite my bird".

 

[Matejka]

Believe this or not. I was there and saw.
My dad born 1928. In 1976, I was 16, dad and I going home on a backroad between Canton and Kaufman, at night, near an abandoned house that was almost 100 yrs old, I think 1974 1 ton dually (could have been a 76). However, snake going across road, big snake, stretched almost completely across road. We ran over it with all 4 back tires,and killed it, got out to look, neighbor stopped behind us, got out too.
It was a copperhead, definitely. Dad and neighbor both looked it over-everyone agreed copperhead.
Dad said there are 2 kinds, the normal ones and these that get bigger. Neighbor loaded snake up and took it home to show it, coz he said no one would believe it.

 

[007Sean]

Believe this or not. I was there and saw.
My dad born 1928. In 1976, I was 16, dad and I going home on a backroad between Canton and Kaufman, at night, near an abandoned house that was almost 100 yrs old, I think 1974 1 ton dually (could have been a 76). However, snake going across road, big snake, stretched almost completely across road. We ran over it with all 4 back tires,and killed it, got out to look, neighbor stopped behind us, got out too.
It was a copperhead, definitely. Dad and neighbor both looked it over-everyone agreed copperhead.
Dad said there are 2 kinds, the normal ones and these that get bigger. Neighbor loaded snake up and took it home to show it, coz he said no one would believe it.

That's a huge copperhead...the biggest I ever saw was around 3', that was in Collin county. The thing about Copperheads is, if you see one look around cause there's another one around. They always seem to be in pairs!

 

[Matejka]

That's a huge copperhead...the biggest I ever saw was around 3', that was in Collin county. The thing about Copperheads is, if you see one look around cause there's another one around. They always seem to be in pairs!

Very true
I always wanted to snoop around that old house-but it just looked like snake heaven, after that night I never even thought about going in there. While horseback riding we saw and snooped alot, never there.
It just looked dangerous.

 

[AllenK RGV]

@RUNuts are the inlaws coming back? It really is looking like they should. As if Houston is a place I would shelter from a hurricane.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Very true
I always wanted to snoop around that old house-but it just looked like snake heaven, after that night I never even thought about going in there. While horseback riding we saw and snooped alot, never there.
It just looked dangerous.

Yep I've only seen copperheads in the three foot range. But in Wise County I saw one as thick as my wrist. I never looked for the second one as you advise. I just made myself scarce. That big guy was sunning on a scrub oak. It is amazing how fast your touche can pucker meeting one. It was probably half the size I described.

 

[RUNuts]

@RUNuts are the inlaws coming back? It really is looking like they should. As if Houston is a place I would shelter from a hurricane.

The In-laws have given us the 1 week warning. As the Magic Eight Ball says, chances are good. It looks like we will be on the dry side again, but the models are still discussing the speed and direction.

I may need a place to hide. Do you have an open room? I'd like to make a reservation.