Guess the snakes

[mriguy]

**** a snake!!!!!!!!

[BROWN FIN]

Just killed a big cottonmouth at my front door. I guess this weather has them going crazy.


BROWN FIN

[Goooh]

Originally Posted by mriguy

**** a snake!!!!!!!!

X1

[tim3516]

Originally Posted by Smalls

Looks like a Pygmy rattlesnake to me.

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I don't think it's a pigmy. Thought that at first.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by tim3516

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100% timber/canebrake rattler aka Crotalus horridus, and why are you holding him/her?

[tim3516]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

100% timber/canebrake rattler aka Crotalus horridus, and why are you holding him/her?

Yea you're right. Caught it while at work. We were cutting line and that was hanging head height in a yaupon. I caught it just to see it up close and take a photo. Them killed it.

[bjhooper82]

Originally Posted by tim3516

Yea you're right. Caught it while at work. We were cutting line and that was hanging head height in a yaupon. I caught it just to see it up close and take a photo. Them killed it.

If you wanted to see it up close why not kill it first?? Kinda a s s backwards huh??

[Smalls]

Lmao....good stuff.

Thankfully, I can say I've never seen a live one

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[tim3516]

Originally Posted by bjhooper82

If you wanted to see it up close why not kill it first?? Kinda a s s backwards huh??

Yea I just like catching stuff. I'd they are not poisonous ill turn em loose.

[tim3516]

I actually caught a snake by the tongue the other day.

[lsudawg]

Glad you had sense enough to let them live.

[Lil Silver]

Copperhead on the last one. I'm with Sulphite...copperheads and water moccassins..........I don't mess with.....except with lead and shovels.

[YellowMouth7]

Chicken snake and mud snake

[jchief]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

100% timber/canebrake rattler aka Crotalus horridus, and why are you holding him/her?

I really thought it was a pygmy also. When they are that size they look a lot alike. How can you tell the difference?

[jchief]

Oh, did you major in snakeology or was that a minor???

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by jchief

I really thought it was a pygmy also. When they are that size they look a lot alike. How can you tell the difference?

That brownish line that extends down its back suggests timber rattler, but they do look similar. I have only seen one living pigmy rattlesnake and funny story that Martin guy from Duck Dynasty was a classmate and labmate of mine and he had caught what he thought was a hog-nosed snake and brought it to class to show it off. It was a pigmy rattlesnake We were taking herpetology at the time and the professor was just shaking his head.

I am just a nerd with reptiles and amphibians just always had an interest


Pigmy and a juvenile timber

[Smalls]

Incredible resemblance. I haven't had a whole lot of experience with rattlesnakes. More of a turtle, frog, and lizard guy myself.

[tim3516]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

That brownish line that extends down its back suggests timber rattler, but they do look similar. I have only seen one living pigmy rattlesnake and funny story that Martin guy from Duck Dynasty was a classmate and labmate of mine and he had caught what he thought was a hog-nosed snake and brought it to class to show it off. It was a pigmy rattlesnake We were taking herpetology at the time and the professor was just shaking his head.

I am just a nerd with reptiles and amphibians just always had an interest


Pigmy and a juvenile timber

Man I'm the same way when it comes to reptiles and all that good stuff.
Take a look at the head of the Pygmy in your pic vs the one I'm holding. You might not be able to see it well but the head is almost all solid tan like this pic off the Internet. It also seem like the brown like breaks at each blotch on its back whereas the line looks more like it continues on this one. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1366384301.335743.jpg

[tim3516]

Ever since I was a kid I'd bring home whatever kind of snake I could get my hands on. Luckily I never got bit but by a poisonous one but I've had a close call a time or two.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by tim3516

Ever since I was a kid I'd bring home whatever kind of snake I could get my hands on. Luckily I never got bit but by a poisonous one but I've had a close call a time or two.

Yep, I was 25 before I saw a living timber rattlesnake. Seen plenty of dead ones though