Watch out this time of year

DH in Carolina · May 1, 2013

This fellow was laying at the edge of my tractor shed. Watch where you step and put your hands since it has warmed up.

retired farmer · May 1, 2013

I know it is a snake but what kind? I saw some grasshoppers already out here the other day.

don t. - 9n180179 · May 1, 2013

Looks like a copperhead to me.

641Dave · May 1, 2013

Yep, copperhead.

I haven't seen but a couple of water snakes out yet but I did pick up a piece of plywood that was leaning on the shed last weekend and found about 50 scorpions heading in every direction. ...tempo time!

Anonymous-0 · May 1, 2013

nasty sneaky and mean they will let you walk by then nail you from behind, at least a rattler lets you know he is there.

PJH · May 1, 2013

Why is it still alive?

Fergienewbee · May 1, 2013

Saw a hog nosed snake aka puff adder yesterday. Hope he's snacking on mice.

Larry

Vito · May 1, 2013

I would have sent him to snake heaven.

Vito

ben there · May 1, 2013

thats why i love my cats...thats a 31 inch copperhead Bigfoot's killin

JayinNY · May 1, 2013

That's a great pic, we had a cat named Bigfoot as kids, my dad decided to keep her since she was so ornery, she lived to be 18 years old, she went into kidney failure. She was an out door in door cat. None of mine are today because of the road. There indoor only.

Texasmark1 · May 1, 2013

Ben lucky on pennies. Knock on wood. Only one in 30+ years and it was on the road in front of the house and I can't tell if It came from me or what.

Have had 2 Moccasins and 2 diamond back water snakes. The Mocs are in snake heaven, the other I don't worry about.

The cat killer is a great animal. Never saw that before but it surely earned it's supper (after it gets over eating the snake).

Mark

Anonymous-0 · May 1, 2013

That is a great action photo of a cat earning its keep. Give him/her a little snack for me.

Larry Baker · May 1, 2013

When my girls were young they had a female cat they named ,Garfield, and that was the snake killingest cat I ever saw.You could start mowing hay in a field and she'd be walking around and bingo she'd just like the pics that the fella put in here.I dont and still dont care for cats but she was the exception

Mark - IN. · May 1, 2013

Speaking of copperheads and scorpions. When I was stationed at Ft. Hood way back when and out in the bushes and tall grass, heard some thrashin around in the grass, and was a copperhead that made the mistake of slithering over a huge nest of fire ants. They came out of that hole in record time and there was nothing left of that guy within minutes. And then I sat on a rotted tree trunk. Got up, put my boot on it and kicked some rotted bark off, never seen so many scorpions scatter like that. The more bark I kicked off, the more of them there were. And I was sitting on them. And one time I too was standing on a somewhat soft mound and got bit on the hand by something. Looked down, fire ants all over my NBC suit. Good thing I was wearing it, and good thing was a bunch of fellow soldiers there to knock them off after took a few steps and dove on the ground to try and rub them off. Goodness gracious. A day in life can be boring, or exciting.

Mark

37chief · May 1, 2013

Never seen one like that. Unless it has rattles on the end of the tale it is harmless around here in Calif. Your snake does have the head of a bad snake. Stan

Texasmark1 · May 2, 2013

It's a copper head so you can add it to your list of rattlers, moccasins, coral snakes, and copperheads, US poisonous snakes and I guarantee you that snake can do you a lot of harm.

Mark

mkirsch · May 2, 2013

LOL 37chief.

Let it bite you and then see how harmless it is.

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