Was This A Close Call - Snake Id

[mic]

Was at Johnson Shut-Ins and my daughters friend stepped right next to this. I think it was a water snake, but thought it might be a baby copper-head. I don't know enough so the rest of us went the long way around.

[Feathers and Fins]

watersnake

[Al Agnew]

Yep Mic, baby copperheads look just like adult copperheads, except the tip of the tail on very small ones is yellowish or greenish.

[mic]

Thanks team. I'm just not in the woods enough anymore to tell the difference. So I go with give them space and let them be. Scared me though because the girls parents were not with us at that time.

[jdmidwest]

Herby NoShoulders. Typical rattleheaded coppermoccasion that tends to pop up on you face to face when you drift under a limb in a boat and make you drop a load in your shorts. Not to be confused with anything poison.

[Blazerman]

Yeah, from your pic you can see the rounded head which lets you know it is not a copperhead. If you had seen a diamond shape head, stay away.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Mic I think the lesson for the girls is simple, when in the wild look ahead and to the side of where you're going. If you see a snake don't run and become a victim, just observe from a safe distance and wait until he leaves or give him a wide berth.

[mic]

Yea... we had that conversation. My girl was actually the one who saw it. Ironically, the girl who stepped near it... her dad had been bitten in the past.

[Wayne SW/MO]

When I was in USAF munitions school one of our exercises was splitting onto 6 on each side of a "T" stem, which was the walkway. After everyone set their charge the outside 2 would light off and if succcesful would walk away following the path, then the next and so on. If you didn't get it lit the instructor would give you another igniter and you would do it again. during this the number "6"s would wait at the stem of the "T". The whole idea was do it right the first time and you never run from explosives, no matter how little time is left.