04 May 2006

Eeeek


This makes FOUR.

FOUR.
SNAKES.
I prefer the turtles I met last year.

9 comments:

Downhillnut said...

Whoa. Give me turtles anyday. Is there such a thing as a snake repellent you can get for your yard?

Downhillnut said...

9 weeks until you come to Calgary. NINE!

sakura56 said...

Oh, Very scary.

Nancy Toby said...

Um, is that a copperhead? As in, POISONOUS???

Backofpack said...

I hate snakes. Now I can't look at your blog again till the snake picture is gone! I'll have to be super fast with the mouse and click away when the pic is half loaded.

*jeanne* said...

I don't THINK it's a copperhead. I searched online for pics, & this does NOT look quite like what I saw. HOWEVER, I have emailed this link to three people who I believe are likely to be able to give me a definite answer on this.

What is TRUE, is that I live in copperhead territory, so whether or not this particular snake is a copperhead, I STILL am going to treat ALL snakes as if they are poisonous. Since snakes scare me ANYWAY, that's no problem.

BOOTS, GLOVES and a WATCHFUL EYE.
And carry a big stick?
(RAKE. SHOVEL.)

Dr. Iron TriFeist :) said...

I don't think it's a copperhead because it lacks the diamond-shaped head of the pit viper family. The color doesn't look right because the dark patches are biggest on the top instead of the sides but color can be variable.

Was it small? Because:

Baby copperheads up to a year or so in age may be easily identified by the presence of a bright yellowish-green tail tip, an adaptation that is used by the young snakes to procure their food. From: http://wildwnc.org/af/northerncopperhead.html

You probably would have noticed a bright yellow tail.

--Linae (aka TriFiest)

Black Knight said...

Be careful, I think it's better you run with a gun instead of a camera!

Una said...

EEEEP! I would have left the camera with the snake... see ya! I've been known to walk the outside of the fence when I spot worms in the garden. Ick.