Snake!

[IronWing]

Cute as a button!

 

[DominionSeraph]

Baby want a rattle?

 

[BoomerD]

Corn snake? Has similar markings, but the head looks different.

 

[IronWing]

black tail rattlesnake

 

[BoomerD]

black tail rattlesnake

It's definitely got the head of a pit viper, but the markings are different than any rattlesnake I've ever seen.

http://www.reptilesofaz.org/Snakes-Subpages/h-c-molossus.html

 

[Jeff7]

Definitely a rattlesnake - check the tip of the tail, visible to the right of its head (right side on the picture, left side for the snake).

Just a wee baby, but still all "come at me bro, I gonna bite ya!"

 

[OutHouse]

kill it those fuckers are nasty. hemo and neuro toxic venom.

 

[IronWing]

Here is a black tail adult I saw last week a couple miles from where this one was today.

 

[lxskllr]

Neat critters, but I'm glad we don't have many of them here. We have timber rattlers in the mountains, and copperheads around me, but I don't think I've ever seen one. I did see a suspicious snake at a mountain rest area once, but I was too tired to check it out. All I was interested in was sleep.

 

[IronWing]

kill it those fuckers are nasty. hemo and neuro toxic venom.

So keep your tongue out of its mouth.

 

[BUTCH1]

kill it those fuckers are nasty. hemo and neuro toxic venom.

They eat rats, just let it go in a different area, anything that eats rats is cool by me..

 

[zanejohnson]

almost stepped right on a copperhead about a month ago in my backyard, member of the diamond back family... ran right out of my shoes (literally).

 

[IronWing]

Meant to post this last week. Lives just down the hill from the baby black tail. Wonder who would win?

Not a snake

 

[BoomerD]

Here is a black tail adult I saw last week a couple miles from where this one was today.

The markings on that one LOOK like a rattlesnake. The first one...not so much..at least, not in that pic.

Fuck all rattlesnakes...gawd-damned shakey-tails...

 

[Red Squirrel]

SNAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

 

[IronWing]

The markings on that one LOOK like a rattlesnake. The first one...not so much..at least, not in that pic.

Fuck all rattlesnakes...gawd-damned shakey-tails...

This one shows the tail a bit better. It wasn't a very cooperative subject.

 

[feralkid]

 

[OutHouse]

They eat rats, just let it go in a different area, anything that eats rats is cool by me..

any snake that can kill me or my kids or my dogs will die if i find it on my property.

 

[IronWing]

any snake that can kill me or my kids or my dogs will die if i find it on my property.

Move to the city, live in an apartment, conflict resolved, and no one has to die.

 

[911paramedic]

The triangular head gave it away as a dangerous snake. I didn't see the rattle until the other shot.

Can you get closer and take a better pic? :awe:

 

[busydude]

It wasn't a very cooperative subject.

Are you a snake handler?

 

[IronWing]

Are you a snake handler?

Nope, but I've met a few. Snake handling struck me mostly as a form of ancestor worship or respect for the dead more than any testament of faith. "My grandfather did this and he was a good man, my father did this and he was a good man, so I'm going to do this as well and maybe I'll be remembered like them."

 

[BoomerD]

Are you a snake handler?

Nah, he's IronWing, the Snake Whisperer.


seems like there ought to be a Harry Potter joke there somewhere...but it's too much work today

 

[IronWing]

Nah, he's IronWing, the Snake Whisperer.

Actually that is true. Typical conversation:

"Ooh, snake!"
<_l_l_>
"Hi there"
<_O_l_>
"Hold on while I get my camera ready."
<moves away>
"It's okay, just getting a pic."
<starts to coil>
<click, click>
"Damn auto focus."
<rattle, rattle>
"Hold on, just one more"
<RATTLE, RATTLE, RATTLE>
"Okay, I think we're done."

The baby couldn't do much more than a faint buzz.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

I hate snakes. They give me shivvers and goose bumps.