SNAKE!

[MoCarp]

This was taken by a person near eagle rock…….😬😬😬

[jdmidwest]

Snake will be itching inside, look at the poison ivy

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Great photos.  Nothing to be worried about.   He's already occupied.   

[Ryan Miloshewski]

Awesome timber rattler. Always amazes me what snakes can take down the hatch.

[Johnsfolly]

Awesome photo op. Would like to see more snakes around. They don't seem to be as common last decade or so.

[tjm]

2 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

They don't seem to be a common last decade or so.

In the '80s a drive to town would see half dozen fresh road kill snakes or more, average one a mile. In the past four summers I've only seen about a half dozen road kill total. All have been rat snakes where the majority were copperheads back then. Used to see one to five timber rattlers a year and it's been ten years since I saw the last one. I think the wood rats and cotton rats have disappeared causing snakes to starve, I haven't seen a rats nest in a few years either and brush hogging doesn't have a herd of cotton rats fleeing here and there. 

[oneshot]

I was nice one time took a Black Snake to my Garden. 

Next day he brought a friend ate most my young Ducks. 

I wasn't so nice. 

oneshot 

[jdmidwest]

I have not run across any snakes this summer at the farm other than a few water snakes in the branch by the foot bridge near the house.  I did dispatch a nasty black rat snake that was trying to make a home in the farm truck.  Its back was full of open, bleeding sores from head to tail.  I did put it out of its misery.  Some kind of virus going around attacking Herps too.  Maybe Covid gets them.

Bush hogging has not stirred up anything this season so far.

[Hawg]

That snake won’t need to eat for a year…

 

I caught this beauty in the garden last week. Let it go back into the garden later.

[snagged in outlet 3]

20 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Awesome photo op. Would like to see more snakes around. They don't seem to be as common last decade or so.

I ride tge Katy trail on my bike 5-6 days a week.   Been doing it for since 2016.   Seems I see them in spurts.   But definitely less as the years go by.   Less turtles too.  Here’s a rattlesnake I saw on the trail.