¡Snek!

[4th and 5 4915]

On 4/5/2023 at 6:17 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

I’m going with Gopher Snake, but the markings near the head have me second guessing that.

Same. I can’t come up with a better answer, but some thing about it gives me some doubt 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Same. I can’t come up with a better answer, but some thing about it gives me some doubt 

I do think it’s a gopher, but it’s weird. Like a Trans-Pecos Rat Snake.

[4th and 5 4915]

1 minute ago, Patricio Swayze said:

I do think it’s a gopher, but it’s weird. Like a Trans-Pecos Rat Snake.

Exactly, the front end sure looks more like a trans Pecos rat snake, and the markings are not quite what you would expect from a gopher snake. Also, the head just isn’t quite right. 

[83Horn 1642]

This video isn't about snakes exclusively, but there is a good amount of interesting snake content.  I like this guy's videos.  He gets some really amazing tornado, lightening and nature shots.

 

[NorthLoop 14218]

cool video - thanks for posting

[pantone159 719]

On 4/6/2023 at 7:42 PM, 4th and 5 said:

Exactly, the front end sure looks more like a trans Pecos rat snake, and the markings are not quite what you would expect from a gopher snake. Also, the head just isn’t quite right. 

Could the front end be less fully developed, since it is a juvenile? My vague sense in walking past this guy was that the head made it look like a young-un. But I am not a snake naturalist so I don't really know anything.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Took my girls out to snake road. Temperature was hovering around 72-73 which is about the minimum to see snakes being active. Barely caught a glimpse of a water snake as it fled into a creek. On the second pass we saw this healthy cottonmouth. Maybe 2.5’ and lethargic due to the temp. Girls were excited. My 6 year old want to get a pic of me holding it with my hook. Need to see how those turned out.





Juvenile racer and a ribbon got away from me. Girls had enough for the day, but on the way home saw this large skin. Figured Ratsnake due to its location, but looking at it closer it seemed to be a coachwhip.



I didn’t want to leave because it seemed like things were starting to move around. Oh well.

[thunderlounge 7893]

Looks like the cotton will be shedding soon. Nice find.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Looks like the cotton will be shedding soon. Nice find.

Doesn’t look too cloudy in the high res version.

My girls aren’t as scared of snakes as some of the “men” in this thread. Haha

[miguelito 11266]

Why is it called Snake Road?

🤪

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Why is it called Snake Road?

Because on that road there are a lot of turtles.

[miguelito 11266]

I like turtles.

[mchookem 16342]

[shadow_operative2.0 16011]

^ Is that your old turtle?! 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

I posted this in another thread, but I think it belongs here as well. Podcast with Paul Rosolie, an American Conservationist living in the Peruvian Jungle for many years. Some cool stories about anacondas and cobras (from time when he lived in India). 
 

 

[Underdog 28754]

[elfenix 34331]

Office snek



Pond snek

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Office snek

Pick it up so it can shit on you.

[Shoxthemonkey 1982]

50 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Pick it up so it can shit on you.

Sounds about right for my office

[High Plains Drifter 11050]

On 4/9/2023 at 4:03 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

Took my girls out to snake road. Temperature was hovering around 72-73 which is about the minimum to see snakes being active. Barely caught a glimpse of a water snake as it fled into a creek. On the second pass we saw this healthy cottonmouth. Maybe 2.5’ and lethargic due to the temp. Girls were excited. My 6 year old want to get a pic of me holding it with my hook. Need to see how those turned out.





Juvenile racer and a ribbon got away from me. Girls had enough for the day, but on the way home saw this large skin. Figured Ratsnake due to its location, but looking at it closer it seemed to be a coachwhip.



I didn’t want to leave because it seemed like things were starting to move around. Oh well.

 

coachwhips climb trees. I don't know if they shed in trees.

 

 

[wutang75 449]

I posted this in another thread, but I think it belongs here as well. Podcast with Paul Rosolie, an American Conservationist living in the Peruvian Jungle for many years. Some cool stories about anacondas and cobras (from time when he lived in India). 
 
 

This is a great listen.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

This is a great listen.

Some really crazy and interesting stories. From start to finish.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

My brother just found this dude by his pool in Cypress. Looks like last years hatchling (a little bit of green on the tail still). He is going to relocate it.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Office nerodia sunning itself on this cool morning.

[Wally Pryor 5261]

On 4/18/2023 at 7:00 PM, Patricio Swayze said:

My brother just found this dude by his pool in Cypress. Looks like last years hatchling (a little bit of green on the tail still). He is going to relocate it.

 

perty snek

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Had to go to Austin today for something and stopped off at a flip spot I know. Two very bitey coachwhips. In fact, one tagged me on the forearm to dissuade me from grabbing him. Which worked. Hard to grab a snake/take photo while propping a board up with other hand. He retreated to a tree and when I tried to grab him, he bolted. Little shit.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

[South Austin 52523]

14 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Cool shot, man.

[HOOKEM4 5039]

Found this guy at my back door. Relocated him to the woods way away from my house. I love these dudes, just stay farther from my back door bro.

[HOOKEM4 5039]

Everyone should have a snake grabber tool imo. I like snakes from a distance but am not excited about grabbing them, especially anything venomous. It is less than 50 bucks and the snakes can be moved somewhere to continue killing pests. 

[Carl Spackler 3488]

16 foot python -- and that's not a record in the Glades.  No thanks to wrestling a snake that size, esp. in the dark.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/absolute-monster-video-shows-trapper-152638472.html

[Jerry Callo 8709]

I always read python with an Australian accent.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Everyone should have a snake grabber tool imo. I like snakes from a distance but am not excited about grabbing them, especially anything venomous. It is less than 50 bucks and the snakes can be moved somewhere to continue killing pests. 

Have you considered TRT? Because everyone knows a man dispatches snakes with a gun.

[Bozo_Casanova 26510]

22 hours ago, HOOKEM4 said:

Found this guy at my back door. Relocated him to the woods way away from my house. I love these dudes, just stay farther from my back door bro.

My wife saw a juvenile coral this morning in Mueller. They out here in these  streets greenbelts. 

[Wally Pryor 5261]

On 5/2/2023 at 7:00 PM, HOOKEM4 said:

Found this guy at my back door. Relocated him to the woods way away from my house. I love these dudes, just stay farther from my back door bro.

 

The only thing worse than getting bitten by one, albeit extremely unlikely, is the Nextdoor diarrhea that comes with a sighting. 

[Spaulding Smails 1555]

On 4/14/2023 at 12:40 PM, High Plains Drifter said:

 

coachwhips climb trees. I don't know if they shed in trees.

 

 

Not sure if they shed in trees, but I know they shed in kitchen ranges.  First time I took my GF (now my wife) to the deer lease when we were dating, I opened up the door to the old pier & beam cabin, turned to my right, and there was a 6' coachwhip shed contorted around the burners on the gas range.  She wasn't too thrilled.  Also saw a massive blue indigo that afternoon coming back from the blind.  That ranch in Live Oak County was very snakey.  

[HOOKEM4 5039]

49 minutes ago, Wally Pryor said:

 

The only thing worse than getting bitten by one, albeit extremely unlikely, is the Nextdoor diarrhea that comes with a sighting. 

I released it in a section of our park that is probably 8-10 acres of heavily wooded cover. You cant even walk into it without getting destroyed by briar. A group of board members were meeting about something at the park and saw me dump something. They flagged me down and asked what I was doing, I told them. All but one about lost their damn minds. 

My response:

[SimonBolivar 10958]

5 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

I released it in a section of our park that is probably 8-10 acres of heavily wooded cover. You cant even walk into it without getting destroyed by briar. A group of board members were meeting about something at the park and saw me dump something. They flagged me down and asked what I was doing, I told them. All but one about lost their damn minds. 

My response:

Should've told them they're cannibalistic so you were doing it to control the Coral Snake population.

[HenryJames 66135]

1 hour ago, Wally Pryor said:

 

The only thing worse than getting bitten by one, albeit extremely unlikely, is the Nextdoor diarrhea that comes with a sighting. 

You have to be a regard to get bitten by a coral snake.

[thunderlounge 7893]

1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

You have to be a regard to get bitten by a coral snake.

Your faith in the general public is disturbing. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33881]

damn near stepped on this bastard. looks like he just had a nice lunch. 6'-7' long. and I live in the middle of Austin. kinda startling to see in your back yard
 

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

King Cobra

[Wally Pryor 5261]

8 hours ago, thunderlounge said:

Your faith in the general public is disturbing. 

You think, especially given the idiocy in this city?

[deadshank 24653]

My end of the street went on full lockdown / panic mode On Tuesday because there was “a BIG snake at least a foot to a foot and a half long” sighted in my next door neighbor’s flower bed. 
 

I am honestly dumbfounded some Panicky Patsy didn’t call 911.  

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

Really pretty cotton mouth.  From a distance I thought it was a copperhead because it was so light.  Just a juvenile so will get darker as it gets older.

 

[PRONG HORN 3146]

17 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Really pretty cotton mouth.  From a distance I thought it was a copperhead because it was so light.  Just a juvenile so will get darker as it gets older.

 

What was the terrain like?  Was it color matching?  It looks like sand/rock.  I mean weas it born brown or did it change based on environment?

 

[Dbeasy 15075]

Walking back from the range, I just about stepped right on him. Ten years ago before I could identify snake species I would have freaked out. But this rat snake didn’t bother me at all. 
 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

 
What was the terrain like?  Was it color matching?  It looks like sand/rock.  I mean weas it born brown or did it change based on environment?
 

This is the Katy prairie. Should be much darker. Here is another from a couple months ago, same road.

[PRONG HORN 3146]

20 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

This is the Katy prairie. Should be much darker. Here is another from a couple months ago, same road.
 

 

Well I guess the road babies are browner.  Juveniles I've found near water/heavy vegetation are blacker/much darker but still with with juvi pattern. 

 

 

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

A couple of years ago Homesickhorn and I met this high school kid into herping out on snake road. He knew quite a lot about snakes and helped us shine a ton of sleeping rough green snakes asleep in trees. Now he is studying at aggy, but I follow him on Instagram to see all the snakes he finds. Well, he posted this yesterday:





He went to the hospital and was in the ICU but will be fine. Along with the bite, his ego is bruised because of doing something dumb. I told him I am glad he is ok, but this is what happens to people that study at TAMU.