¡Snek!

[markstanco 12,773]

10 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

If you were drinking beer in your garage alone, rat snake. If not, it’s a Spitting Cobra.

Does wine count?

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

Just now, markstanco said:

Does wine count?

Only if you got one of them ferr-inn cars parked in there.

[Chad Fuck 18,091]

Does wine count?

Ask your husband, he’ll know.

[Shoxthemonkey 1,992]

Wife and I went scouting for Indian Paintbrush to transplant this fall and ran across this fellow. It was still cool so he wasn't real active. I had to come to a complete stop so he could get across the road.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Nice gopher snake.

[4th and 5 4,997]

On 6/13/2020 at 8:33 PM, markstanco said:

Western rat snek? Or water snek?

Relocated to a creek behind the house.

 

Western Rat Snake. A dark adult specimen.

 

43 minutes ago, Shoxthemonkey said:

Wife and I went scouting for Indian Paintbrush to transplant this fall and ran across this fellow. It was still cool so he wasn't real active. I had to come to a complete stop so he could get across the road.

 

Bullsnake.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

 

Bullsnake.

How do you tell the difference between a bull snake and gopher snake?

 

Nevermind. I see the difference. I thought they were synonymous, but apparently gopher is a subspecies of bullsnake.

[ss13 1,832]

Swayze fucking HATES when someone else gets in on one. 

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Swayze fucking HATES when someone else gets in on one. 

Nope. Don’t care at all. And 4th and 5 knows way better than me. Go back to your mom’s basement you pussy.

[ss13 1,832]

Okay bro, you are not defensive at all. 

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Okay bro, you are not defensive at all. 

Now that right there is comedy. spystud calling someone sensitive. Lulz.

[ss13 1,832]

I said defensive. Look at you, bro. You are fucking mad as shit right now. 

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

I said defensive. Look at you, bro. You are fucking mad as shit right now. 

Hahaha so mad!!!!

[Shoxthemonkey 1,992]

31 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

How do you tell the difference between a bull snake and gopher snake?

 

Nevermind. I see the difference. I thought they were synonymous, but apparently gopher is a subspecies of bullsnake.

According to KSU they are one and the same. I never felt strongly enough to look any further.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

According to KSU they are one and the same. I never felt strongly enough to look any further.

Interesting. I thought so too but honestly don’t know enough about either to really know. I did read on wiki that gopher was a subspecies. Hopefully 4th and 5 can shed light on it.

[thunderlounge 8,318]

1 hour ago, 4th and 5 said:

Western Rat Snake. A dark adult specimen.

Such a racist comment. 

[4th and 5 4,997]

A bullsnake is in the Pituophis genus with gophersnakes and pinesnakes. They all look fairly similar. And technically a bullsnake is a subspecies of gophersnake, so not all gophersnakes are bullsnakes, but all bullsnakes are gophersnakes. All are very large powerful constrictors and are amongst the largest snakes in North America. Maybe not as long as an Indigo but pretty close. They eat pretty much whatever they can get a hold of. Big ones can have a pretty salty disposition and bow up like a rattlesnake and vibrate their tail when annoyed. Generally speaking, we have (Sonoran) gophersnakes in far west Texas (and on into the Pacific coast) and pinesnakes in East Texas (and on into the south east even as far as into the Mid-Atlantic), and bullsnakes in between (and the states north of us).

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Made a quick trip to Galveston after not finding Osprey and Swallow-tailed Kites in Clearlake. Hoped I would flip a rattlesnake, but ended up doing a welfare check on the two coachwhips I found recently. The big one was in shed again and kept spinning around, ultimately removing most of the old scales to show a brilliant salmon color. Put both back where I found them.

[NateHitch 1,282]

They're both like Damn man, not this shit again, can't you call first?

[Braff Zacklin 13,675]

1 hour ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Made a quick trip to Galveston after not finding Osprey and Swallow-tailed Kites in Clearlake. Hoped I would flip a rattlesnake, but ended up doing a welfare check on the two coachwhips I found recently. The big one was in shed again and kept spinning around, ultimately removing most of the old scales to show a brilliant salmon color. Put both back where I found them.

Hey, scro, why you gotta hate it when anyone else gets in on a snake?

Naw, seriously, good-looking specimens. Keep hearing the Rawhide theme in my head when looking at your coachwhip pics.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Hey, scro, why you gotta hate it when anyone else gets in on a snake?
Naw, seriously, good-looking specimens. Keep hearing the Rawhide theme in my head when looking at your coachwhip pics.

Yeah, I just hate it. Can’t stand it. Lulz. What a shit stirring basement dweller.

It’s funny that both times that big mother was in shed. Awesome color underneath. He was about 4.5’ at least.

[Braff Zacklin 13,675]

You obviously gave him leprosy.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

You obviously gave him leprosy.

One can only hope.

[RollLeft 5,088]

In Palo Duro I happened upon a speckled king snake.  Much like this one.  A group of olds passed by and the womens walked right on by with disgust.  I tried telling the old dude who stopped to take a look he was good.  That equated to only garter snakes are good therefore it must be a garter snake then.  Didn't try and correct the old, he's lived this long.  

 

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Went to a pond in Cypress hoping to get some good shots of the resident Osprey. Of course he wasn’t there. The area seems like prime habitat for rough green snakes. I love those little dudes, but have yet to see one this year. Just like the Osprey, no luck.

So I walked over to the creek knowing I would probably see a water snake, and sure enough, two of them. A broad banded and a diamondback. The broad banded bit me and the diamondback tried.

[Player 4,605]

1 hour ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Went to a pond in Cypress hoping to get some good shots of the resident Osprey. Of course he wasn’t there. The area seems like prime habitat for rough green snakes. I love those little dudes, but have yet to see one this year. Just like the Osprey, no luck.

So I walked over to the creek knowing I would probably see a water snake, and sure enough, two of them. A broad banded and a diamondback. The broad banded bit me and the diamondback tried.

Back off warchild. Seriously.

[Reagan1k 3,040]

On 6/13/2020 at 8:33 PM, markstanco said:

Western rat snek? Or water snek?

Relocated to a creek behind the house.

The spent brass on the ground begs the question of what kind of snake you shot (at) previously.

[markstanco 12,773]

33 minutes ago, Reagan1k said:

The spent brass on the ground begs the question of what kind of snake you shot (at) previously.

Looks spent, but the pointy part is hiding.  .223.

[deadshank 24,654]

Something wicked this way passes

[South Austin 53,154]

Definitely cobra tracks.

[ChickenSandwich 9,918]

[Brothahorn 10,096]

Something wicked this way passes

This is part of the horror movie that you have to decide if you go forward or turn back.

We all know you kept going.

[deadshank 24,654]

15 minutes ago, Brothahorn said:

This is part of the horror movie that you have to decide if you go forward or turn back.

We all know you kept going.

It was a mammoth indigo.  He was patrolling for rattlers and cutting a wide swath while doing it. 

[Chad Fuck 18,091]

Snek makes NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/opinion/rattlesnakes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

[Jerry Callo 8,952]

9 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

Snek makes NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/opinion/rattlesnakes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

I tried to read, but damn women writes like its a romance novel.

[Jerry Callo 8,952]

On 6/21/2020 at 10:38 AM, deadshank said:

Something wicked this way passes

That's really cool.  Did you actually catch up with the snek to make the id or make an educated guess?

[deadshank 24,654]

41 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

That's really cool.  Did you actually catch up with the snek to make the id or make an educated guess?

Caught up with him.  He was a biggun.  We have a LOT of indigo on our place on north bank of Frio and very few rattlers.  The south bank is plumb full of rattlers and very few indigo.  
 

go figure. 

[deadshank 24,654]

Indigo sexy time in the Frio. 

[Braff Zacklin 13,675]

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Haha awesome. Wish I had known, I would have asked to stop by as I was passing through the area this weekend. I am looking for my big break as a porn photographer. 

[RollLeft 5,088]

1 hour ago, deadshank said:

Caught up with him.  He was a biggun.  We have a LOT of indigo on our place on north bank of Frio and very few rattlers.  The south bank is plumb full of rattlers and very few indigo.  
 

go figure. 

This explains your avatar, lol.  I saw that sign going thru Uvalde a few weeks back.  haha!

[RollLeft 5,088]

7 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Haha awesome. Wish I had known, I would have asked to stop by as I was passing through the area this weekend. I am looking for my bi break as a porn photographer. 

Langtry Texas 

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

Langtry Texas 

Hahaha. More laughing at the Apple autocorrect.

[4th and 5 4,997]

On 6/21/2020 at 10:38 AM, deadshank said:

Something wicked this way passes

 

thanks for letting me hunt your place, sorry if my nuts dragged a little and scared you

 

 

1 hour ago, deadshank said:

Indigo sexy time in the Frio. 

IMG_9629.MOV

 

that's cool, I'd love to see that in person

 

only time I've see a man levitate right out of a chair and run thru the air was when a big Indigo came from behind him and between the legs of his folding chair while dove hunting down in the free state of McMullen County 

[deadshank 24,654]

1 minute ago, 4th and 5 said:

 

thanks for letting me hunt your place, sorry if my nuts dragged a little and scared you

 

 

 

that's cool, I'd love to see that in person

 

only time I've see a man levitate right out of a chair and run thru the air was when a big Indigo came from behind him and between the legs of his folding chair while dove hunting down in the free state of McMullen County 

Ha.  McMullen Co.   that’s where I used to hunt.  What ranch were you on?   We were on the old Wenzt place where Highway 99 dead ended at a pipe gate south of Choke Canyon. 

[deadshank 24,654]

This video was taken in rattler held territory with an indigo making a raid to test rattler defenses. 

Edited June 23, 2020 by deadshank
That is not me you hear in the audio.

[Patricio Swayze 17,058]

That is badass. 

[deadshank 24,654]

3 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

That is badass. 

Indigo are bad mofos. 

[TwiceHorn 31,987]

The couple of indigo I have been up close to didn't have the light colored belly, so I was looking that up.  I have a pic somewhere of me at Camp Longhorn in about 1980 with an indigo draped around my neck and shoulders.

Turns out one of their latin names is Drymarchon, meaning King of the Forest.  That's pretty cool.

 

[deadshank 24,654]

Drymarchon is a great name.