Snake pics

[dipbait]

I love snakes. Great photos. Heres a couple enjoying warm asphalt.

 

[Joezilla]

Interesting on the bleeding note! Did you go to therapy for it? How bad was the worst part of the necrosis?
Also, which rattlesnake got you? For all our snakes, we had to put them under to put in a real telemetry probe. It was a surgical procedure for sure!
I had the squirt gun effect on mine. Lots of blisters and I could shoot a stream from my hand like 10 feet. Go go gadget squirt gun!

 

[Md 25v]

The necrosis ended up about twice as bad as the pic at its worst. It was a timber (C. horridus). Putting in the telemetry tags is surgical, totally. We take them to the field house, put them out, do the procedure, then keep them for a day or so for observation.

 

[Joezilla]

Cool, at least with them you have alot of body cavity to work with.


AHHH, what am I doing!!!

the name of this thread alone gives Joe the ability to notoriously spam pics!!

LET THE PIC FEST BEGIN!!!!

 

[kgd]

Here is another one of the northern watersnakes sunning on the deck of boat in a neighbhoring well. This guy was on the same boat every day throughout the month of June.

 

[Md 25v]

Love the long tail salamander (Eurycea longicauda). They're one of my favorites

 

[Joezilla]

 

[HikingMano]

THose snake extractors don't work. Period. I've tried one over 16 times on bee stings and haven't got any results. Hey that might be a good video.

There was a publication a while back addressing the effectiveness of the sawyer extractor. I'll see if I can find it.

The sawyer is the yellow one they sell at walmart right? Those are crap. There are a few that a colegue picked up in costa rica that have oval shaped cups that are over 2 1/2 inches wide and had a silicon coating aroud the edge to help with the suction.

It's good to finally hear thoughts on these from people with experience :thumbup: And great pics!

 

[Md 25v]

Joe, love the pigmy rattler. Have you ever seen the ones from north carolina? There is a population in one county that is completely red, to match the high clay content in the soil.

 

[Joezilla]

 

[Joezilla]

Joe, love the pigmy rattler. Have you ever seen the ones from north carolina? There is a population in one county that is completely red, to match the high clay content in the soil.

I've found many in NC! Here are some pics from a very good friend of mine. He is 90270917234097123409723 times more the snake hunter than I am. I think I was here when this picture was taken

(These are kev's pics, he is the real snake guru. He makes me look like a 2 year old)
The ones you are speaking of are in one of counties (name withheld)here. If you come down, we can go looking for them!

 

[tonym]

Awesome pics guys. I love snakes! If any of you ever do anything up in the North East I would love to observe or help out in some way.

 

[Joezilla]

Hey tony,

You should try to go after some of the water snakes ya'll have up there. There are some really cool people up that way that do research on them.

 

[Md 25v]

Hey tony,

You should try to go after some of the water snakes ya'll have up there. There are some really cool people up that way that do research on them.

Two summers ago, I spent 3 months doing water snake population and movement pattern tracking at patuxent research refuge. We were trying to determine if the successive draining and filling of the impoundments to control the vegetation was effecting the water snake population.

 

[Md 25v]

If you come down, we can go looking for them!

I would love to hook up to go herping some time. Its always good to meet other biologists and I've learned over the years that you can really be surprised how important random connections can end up being.

 

[Joezilla]

that is cool! I bet you have some awesome stories of the things those nasty boogers regurgitated back up. Did you work with that girl who is heading up the research up north? I can't remember her name, but it was in the news or something on MPR

It seems to me that for every three water snakes I get my hands on, I can almost guarantee a frog to be thrown up. A big leaky smokey brown nasty ranid from the depths of the snakes bowels itself.

 

[Md 25v]

that is cool! I bet you have some awesome stories of the things those nasty boogers regurgitated back up.

It seems to me that for every three water snakes I get my hands on, I can almost guarantee a frog to be thrown up. A big leaky smokey brown nasty ranid from the depths of the snakes bowels itself.

Its odd but the ones at gunpowder usually regurgitated frogs but the ones at patuxent usually threw up fish even though there were plenty of frogs there. They have a mixed diet but each location had like 90% one prey item or the other thrown up. Oh well, everybody's got a preference.

 

[tonym]

Hey tony,

You should try to go after some of the water snakes ya'll have up there. There are some really cool people up that way that do research on them.

I have caught a few of them while fishing the reseviors around me. They don't like me handling them much; at least I think they don't due to a few bites I got from them, and that putrid smell they put off. :barf:


They are almost black when they are full grown up here. You can barely make out a pattern on there scales.

 

[Joezilla]

Hey Tony, Congrats on getting bit by a Nerodia (fun word for water snake); as far as nonvenomous go, watersnakes pack the best (err, ehm I mean worst) bite ever. You bleed like the bejusus due to anti-coagulant properties in their blood

This girl Whom I haven't met, is a buddy of Kev's. This is her first water snake bite

more of Kev's pics

 

[Joel Stave]

While we're on the subject of snake ID, I found this little (dead) guy on our road and haven't really been able to figure out what it is (found in NH, USA). Is it a rat snake? Thanks in advance for any help.

(click on the small images for a much larger ones).