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re: snake ID
Posted on 8/20/14 at 6:36 am to JustSouthofInsanity
Posted on 8/20/14 at 6:36 am to JustSouthofInsanity
Thanks everyone. Sounds like the general consensus is water snake. He didn't bite me but he tried.
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Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:41 am to wickowick
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I think that is a baby cottonmouth... ETA: Not the OP's pic, the one with the chartreuse tail...
Baby copperheads also have the yellow tail - even some juvenile rattlesnakes do as well (pygmy). That is a baby copperhead (not OP, but the yellow-tail pic).
This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 7:45 am
Posted on 8/20/14 at 7:45 am to 911Moto
Cottonhead Rattlecobra....kill it now!
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:32 am to 911Moto
quote:Yup. The two get confused more than i can really understand.
That is a baby copperhead (not OP, but the yellow-tail pic).
As to the water snakes, I am pretty sure that if you see a "Southern Water Snake" in La. it's going to be the broad banded, and not banded. I know I've never seen a banded, and I've seen eleventy billion broad bandeds. The banded Water Snake is the eastern sub-species of fasciata.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:37 am to SetTheMood
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When I was a kid, my buddy and I were breaking in our brand new Remington 870 20 gauges shooting cow paddies and shite in the woods at the camp. He shot this old rotted stump and about 20 of those little demons poured out. Guns needed to be cleaned that night.
I'd have had nightmares for years, and I'm not EVEN kidding.
I'm as afraid of a snake as queer man is of a bag full of pooty. It's a wonder I ever killed anything growing up. Hunting the swamp that is essentially at the "corner" of I 55 and I 10, y'all can't imagine the number of water moxicans I ran up on. There were days that I squirrel hunted in there - those 80 degree October days - where I'd see 20 per trip.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:38 am to JustSouthofInsanity
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grab it. If it bites you then just head to the hospital and sit in the parking lot and wait. You'll either have to run inside or you'll be fine.
hears another thought, jean yus, kill it, throw it out and go to bed. save the gas and time of going to the hospital. you're a pretty sharp feller, ain't you?
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:39 am to Ole Geauxt
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:51 am to AlxTgr
I'm amazed at how regional snakes can be in this area. I grew up on the 40 arpent canal in St. Bernard. Spent my entire childhood catching snakes. 90% of the water snakes were Diamondbacks, and the rest were generally Bandeds, with the occasional Graham's. There was a floodwall on top the levee that separated us from the marshy area around the MRGO area. If you hopped that floodwall, you could then catch Brown and Green water snakes. On the 40 arpent, I saw 3 Cottonmouths in 12 years (though every snake the neighbors saw was a "Cottonmouth"). Yet if you went 10 miles down the road Cottonmouths were everywhere. If you hopped over the Intracoastal into New Orleans East just 15 minutes away, you could catch Copperheads, Canebrakes, Hognoses, etc. - none of which I ever encountered in St. Bernard. Likewise, Blue Racers were everywhere on the south shore, while Black Racers were everywhere on the North shore. Then if you jumped over to the West Bank, Broad Banded water snakes were everywhere. That's a lot of variance for a small region. It's notable that each of these locales is separated from the others by bodies of water.
ETA - Anyone headed to Repticon in Lafayette next weekend?
ETA - Anyone headed to Repticon in Lafayette next weekend?
This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 8:54 am
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:56 am to 911Moto
Yeah, our area is not like that at all. If you see a snake in the water, you can pretty much bet it's going to be either a DB or BB. We would catch the odd crawfish type snake from time to time and a mud here and there. I have seen all of one green. Cottons are really rare on the bottomland. I have seen way more in upland creeks.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 8:57 am to 911Moto
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Anyone headed to Repticon
This could be an OB gathering.... 
Posted on 8/20/14 at 9:00 am to 911Moto
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Repticon in Lafayette next weekend
I live in lafy and would like to go to something like that but the Fam would not
I haven't been to a reptile show in years! You going?This post was edited on 8/20/14 at 9:16 am
Posted on 8/20/14 at 9:31 am to Ole Geauxt
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jean yus
Posted on 8/20/14 at 9:34 am to Ole Geauxt
quote:So much anger.
Ole Geauxt
Posted on 8/20/14 at 10:51 am to TigerTreyjpg
I'm fine seeing a poisonous snake, (as long as it's not a big scare, eg, very close or suddenly taking off), but when I see more than one in a small area I get really freaked out, like paranoid that they are surrounding me.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 11:29 am to TexasTiger01
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This could be an OB gathering....
ob members will be the ones carrying flame throwers.
Posted on 8/20/14 at 11:43 am to AlxTgr
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quote: Ole Geauxt
So much constipation .
Posted on 8/20/14 at 11:48 am to Ole Geauxt
They got medicine fer that or I hear prune juice will work fer you old farts!
Posted on 8/20/14 at 12:30 pm to NOLAGT
I'm thinking about going but not sure. Long drive from Slidell. I might hold out til the one in da Parish in November.
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