Doing a little brush clearing (does it ever end). Boots and britches for me....good snake.
Not super knowledgable about snakes other than I don’t like them. Is that a bull snake? Look a lot like a rattler but without the rattle.
Copperhead. They'll ruin your whole month.
Really!? Wow. I need to learn my snakes
Yessir, hone up your Oklahoma snake ID’sReally!? Wow. I need to learn my snakes
Nope, a copperhead. I had a minor run-in with a coontail (western diamondback rattler) Monday. Was out cutting off some stumps from spring firewood cutting and as I walked past a pile of brush I felt a thump and my rt leg moved sideways a little. Dam rattler struck me, so out comes the .357 with shotloads. Guess it didn't get the memo "don't pick a biting fight with a cranky, toothless old fat man...he will just shoot ya". After checking my leg to be sure of no fang marks, I laid it along a tape measure...5ft 3inch with 13 rattles so not a big one but sure enough mature.
Luckily my neighbor who has been next door for like 28yrs said he’s never seen a poisonous or venomous snake around us. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stay vigilant
No flip flops for you, huh?
Old place had lots of them. I had to relocate a half dozen every year. New place has Pigmy Rattlesnakes. First few years I had to relocate 2 to 4 a year. None this year at all. Hopefully they stay gone.
