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re: The Business End
Posted on 5/5/15 at 9:00 pm to AthensRattler
Posted on 5/5/15 at 9:00 pm to AthensRattler
Awesome pics by both of you guys. I still enjoy going out around the neighborhood looking for snakes, though there's not much around here compared to the area where I grew up. Around my late teens/early 20s I got into photographing reptiles too. Used to catch them and keep or sell them, but eventually I got to where It was more fun to just photograph them, or occasionally catch and release - exotics are more fun to keep than the stuff I can catch locally. Fascinating creatures. There's a nature reserve nearby - Jean Lafitte National Park - that is awesome for photography. Lots of swamp critters in their natural habitat. Even the plentiful blue racers are so used to people that you can pretty much walk right up to them there. Once saw a giant mud snake swallowing a huge amphiuma right below the deck at the visitor center - biggest snake I've seen in the wild, and I've caught a couple 6.5 ft. rat snakes. I wish I had pics of that one.
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Posted on 5/5/15 at 9:03 pm to shawnlsu
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Y'all motherfrickers need Jesus and some common sense.
Or, others need to grow some balls. Don't be scared of something that won't hurt you if you treat it with respect. It's a tiny animal. It's not going to chase you down and kill you. Observing is pretty harmless.
-Ignatius Reilly
Posted on 5/5/15 at 11:13 pm to Sparkplug#1
This thread is my nightmare.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 12:44 pm to bluemoons
Question for the Snakeoligist: What intrigues me most is the range of Crotalus Horridus aka Timber Rattler.
In the link below you will see that this snake ranges into portions of NE Florida, on a southwesterly diagonal from Jacksonville, over to close to the gulf. Then back into Ga, and then back into FL. in what appears to be around Tallahassee.
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What in nature would cause this? I know it's true because I've never seen or heard of a Timber Rattler being seen where I live. As the crow flies, I'm only 80 to 90 miles from Ga. and possibly 10-15 miles from the southeast dividing line on the range map. When I lived in extreme southeast Ga.,Camden Co., they were there and I've seen them in northern Alachua, Co. just north of Gainesville.
In the link below you will see that this snake ranges into portions of NE Florida, on a southwesterly diagonal from Jacksonville, over to close to the gulf. Then back into Ga, and then back into FL. in what appears to be around Tallahassee.
LINK
What in nature would cause this? I know it's true because I've never seen or heard of a Timber Rattler being seen where I live. As the crow flies, I'm only 80 to 90 miles from Ga. and possibly 10-15 miles from the southeast dividing line on the range map. When I lived in extreme southeast Ga.,Camden Co., they were there and I've seen them in northern Alachua, Co. just north of Gainesville.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 12:47 pm to AthensRattler
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All critters were photographed and released, unharmed.
Well that's a damn shame.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 1:06 pm to shawnlsu
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Y'all motherfrickers need Jesus and some common sense.
Burn this thread with fire!!!! We used to go catch cottonmouths when I was a kid, drive up to a tree in the boat and hit the limbs until they fell in the boat. Believe we caught 11 one day until my dad chewed our asses for dumping them on the wharf behind the house and chopping their heads of w machetes. Awesome pics guys
Posted on 5/6/15 at 1:27 pm to sonoma8
quote:I often wonder about these stories because I've never seen one in a tree. I know it does happen since I've seen pics. In any event, i stumbled upon this that I thougth was interesting,
We used to go catch cottonmouths when I was a kid, drive up to a tree in the boat and hit the limbs until they fell in the boat. Believe we caught 11 one day until my dad chewed our asses for dumping them on the wharf behind the house and chopping their heads of w machetes.
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One of these legends states that one must beware of Cottonmouths in tree branches overhanging rivers, as these animals are likely to drop into your boat as you pass beneath them. I’ve never quite understood why a Cottonmouth would do this or what Phase II of the attack might be, but some might have you believe that after a Cottonmouth drops into your boat, it would then proceed to kill everyone within reach. That is, of course, unless the snake is killed first.
Here’s the lowdown. There are snakes that hang out in the branches overhanging rivers and they do sometimes drop out of them. But they’re not Cottonmouths and the last thing they want to do is land in your boat.
Although Cottonmouths can climb trees, they seldom do
Cottonmouth myths
I look forward to his work on,
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I plan to write future columns about Cottonmouth “breeding balls”
Posted on 5/6/15 at 1:30 pm to Themole
Distribution probably has something to do with the type of vegetation/tree cover in those areas. Husband says timber rattlers prefer hardwoods over piney areas.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 1:34 pm to AthensRattler
nice pics!
Posted on 5/6/15 at 1:35 pm to Dorothy
Every one I've ever seen has been on bottomland.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 1:37 pm to AlxTgr
My brother and I were 14-15 yrs old. It was my father who told me they were cotton mouths. Possible chance it wasnt because we honestly didnt know what kind of snakes it was. Most of them had triangular shaped heads/fangs/slits in eyes so we knew they were venomous. Kids being dumb. Hell they coulda been timberanacondaviperswoopeda snakes for all I know. We would just knock them out of the tree, pick them up with whatever we had in the boat and put them in an ice chest. Pour them out when we got home and go to town on them.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 1:38 pm to sonoma8
quote:That would make those cottonmouths.
fangs
Nothing personal, but I've learned to question every single identification made on this board
Posted on 5/6/15 at 2:22 pm to AlxTgr
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Nothing personal, but I've learned to question every single identification made on this board
Haha, no offense taken, because im sure this board is filled with hunting and fishing legends to be told
Posted on 5/6/15 at 3:09 pm to sonoma8
I wish I could find the chicken-beaked duck thread.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 3:16 pm to AlxTgr
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wish I could find the chicken-beaked duck thread.
Is this referring to the alleged "Water Chicken" also known as the Poule D'eau
Posted on 5/6/15 at 3:18 pm to sonoma8
Dude shot a bird. Claimed it flew in with some pintails. Pretty sure he shot a Grebe
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