Rounded head and eyes generally means non venomous. Don’t mind snakes, they are usually not usual bothersome. Now spiders… the only good one is a dead one. Any that I see get the Texas two step haha. Also hate Spider-Man.
Hognose.OK... I've been in OK for 4 years and I've seen 1 snake before today. I just found this guy in front of my shop. He looks like what I've always called a bull snake. But he wasn't acting like I've seen bull snakes act. I have seen them puff out their "neck" like that, though. I picked him up with a rake and he opened his mouth really wide and a tan-colored liquid spewed out. and he started writhing really weirdly and trying to bite his own body. Never seen anything like it before.
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Coral snakes being the only exception to the round eyes are non venomous.Rounded head and eyes generally means non venomous. Don’t mind snakes, they are usually not usual bothersome. Now spiders… the only good one is a dead one. Any that I see get the Texas two step haha. Also hate Spider-Man.
I’ve seen quite a number of those little snakes around my place by Lake Lawtonka. Unfortunately a few found their way under my mower before I saw them.Dekays brown snake I found while mowing earlier today.View attachment 375403
Snakes can act really weird. My first experience was as a child visiting family in the Midwest. They have blue racers there. This snake chased and outran me the whole way from the field to the house. Every time I would stop he would stop and look at me like “are we racing or what?” As soon as I ran he was right there with me. Terrifying for a 6/7 year old.Snakes don't bother me and I can usually tell the dangerous types from the non-dangerous. I'm just not familiar with these two species I've seen today. Most of my experience is with various rattlesnakes and bullsnakes and such from more western states.
The little racer zipped off into the leaves accumulated up next to the fence. I just wasn't sure what the hognose was so I relocated him across the road. Now that I know what they are I won't worry about the dogs or goats getting bit.
The hognose was really putting on quite a display of being injured and then dead. Pretty interesting to watch their behavior.
We have three identified snakes around the house. Grass snakes, black rat snakes and copperheads.I was gently antagonizing a bullsnake in my yard in Idaho one day. He was doing his damnedest to convince me he was a rattlesnake. Flattened head into a triangle, rattling his tail in the gravel...very fierce looking guy. I saw them frequently around the house there. Unfortunately, I saw the real deal rattlers, too. The rattlesnakes always went before the (Taurus) Judge for sentencing and it was always the death penalty. Couldn't afford for the wife or the dogs (or me) to get bit.
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