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Pigmy rattlesnake
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:24 am
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:24 am
Sorry no pics but just my 2nd one in less than 10 days after not seeing any in the last 10.
Both in ebr.
Any of y'all ever see them?
Both in ebr.
Any of y'all ever see them?
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Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:31 am to choupiquesushi
Not yet. And hope I don't!
Posted on 5/27/17 at 10:07 am to choupiquesushi
Of the countless hours I've spent outdoors in LA, I have yet to lay eyes on a live rattlesnake. I see more than enough cottonmouths to make up for it tho.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 10:10 am to gorillacoco
Gorilla
Tunica hills
High wooded ground in no east.
Most I have seen in la. Cane breaks not pigmys though
Tunica hills
High wooded ground in no east.
Most I have seen in la. Cane breaks not pigmys though
Posted on 5/27/17 at 10:27 am to choupiquesushi
Yeah, Florida Panhandle. They like sandy areas. Supposed to be common here but I only see about one per year. They can be pretty hard to spot. Beautiful snake.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 11:38 am to choupiquesushi
Caught one at the underground hospital in NOe in '70.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 11:52 am to gorillacoco
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Of the countless hours I've spent outdoors in LA, I have yet to lay eyes on a live rattlesnake. I see more than enough cottonmouths to make up for it tho.
Ditto, except my time has been spent in sela, nwla, etx, and all over Oklahoma . I'm beginning to think rattlesnakes are like bigfoot. I'm pretty perplexed by my lack of exposure to them. Same with copperheads.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 12:12 pm to choupiquesushi
They supposedly live in northern Alabama but I've yet to see one here or anywhere else in my 40 years. I think they're pretty common in some areas, especially along the coast. I suspect populations of them up here long ago are why old timers call dekay's brown snakes "ground rattlers" to this day.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 12:42 pm to Teague
I can probably put you on some in NE Alabama. Try eastern Calhoun County.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 1:07 pm to AthensRattler
I saw five cane breaks in one day at sherburne
Posted on 5/27/17 at 3:49 pm to choupiquesushi
A couple years ago found one laying on a water hose hanging on the side of the house.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 5:22 pm to choupiquesushi
I have looked for snakes for 44 years, and have still never seent one.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:15 pm to choupiquesushi
In the 60's I saw one in my backyard in Vidalia, LA. It was between my mom and I when I was four or five. She told me not to come any closer. That scared me, so I ran to her. Stepped right over it. My dad came from the garden with a hoe and killed it. We used to see lots of rattlesnakes in Concordia Parish.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 8:19 pm to chinese58
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chinese58
This thread tweaked my interest so I looked. Seems some are docile while others are aggressive. Mine was docile. Beautiful too.
Posted on 5/27/17 at 9:57 pm to AlxTgr
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I have looked for snakes for 44 years, and have still never seent one.
Me either. Hell, from 2004-2009 I walked over 1,000 miles in the woods of east Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and southern Alabama, and have never seen one. It is one of only a few I know I haven't seen. Never seen a pigmy or a coral snake. Found an eastern diamondback around Hattiesburg once. Found the state record glossy crayfish snake. Handled 2 live and one dead rainbow snake. Never seent a pigmy, but I'll keep looking. My brother swears he saw one on the bank of a neighborhood canal in Denham Springs when we were kids.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 3:58 am to choupiquesushi
My grandparents used to see them all over their yard out in Folsom. They called them groundrattlers but I assume it's really a pigmy rattlesnake. I think that's just what them and a bunch of older people referred to them as
Posted on 5/28/17 at 8:58 am to sta4ever
All over their yard? Those were DeKays.
Posted on 5/28/17 at 10:08 am to gorillacoco
Saw this baw while hiking at tunica last year. First time I'd seen a rattlesnake in person.
This post was edited on 5/28/17 at 10:10 am
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