JaRo, post: 439674, member: 292 wrote: I prefer the pictures with the scale system installed.
My wife has been at it again.
Is she related to this lady?
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/02/72-year-old-woman-uses-shotgun-shovel-and-rake-handle-to-kill-11-copperhead-snakes-under-her-home/
Richard Germiller, post: 439849, member: 499 wrote: Is she related to this lady?
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No relation but 11 in one night is doing pretty good. This goes back to last year and the story about copperheads hunting Cicadas. We had a total of 14 last year. Susan got most of them. This year we are up to 10 if we count the one run over on the road in front of the house. All were the last week of June.
I am hoping we are about to run out of snakes.
https://surveyorconnect.com/community/threads/copperheads-again.327610/page-2
[USER=292]@JaRo[/USER]
Have you tried baiting with ceramic eggs.
You may need a box full of King snakes
A Harris, post: 439870, member: 81 wrote: [USER=292]@JaRo[/USER]
Have you tried baiting with ceramic eggs.
Most of these snakes I don't think could get their mouth around a ceramic egg.
I guarantee you one thing. It doesn't matter what kind of snake it is, it will be dead if my wife can get to a shovel. I gave up on that argument a long time ago. We have some Rat snakes around and have seen a couple of spreading adders. It doesn't matter to my wife. They will be dead.
So yesterday, I sat down by the water and waited. The birds are so desperate for water that they have no problem knowing I was sitting there 5 feet away.
I didn't have a camera, but here are a couple pictures of a few birds that visited.
Common Goldfinch
Lazuli Bunting
Coopers Hawk
The hawk didn't come in for a drink - it was looking for an easy meal.
There were a few humming birds that came for a drink as well.
The doe and fawn came in for a drink, but would not get closer than 10 feet of me.
The turkeys with the babies came by, but quickly saw me sitting there and just walked right on by.
A snake story from 60 years ago, plus or minus a few years. My mother went to the chicken house to gather eggs and found a black snake stuck in the nesting boxes. It had consumed one or two eggs in one box, then slipped through an open knothole in the divider board into the next box and consumed another egg or two. The knothole was larger than the unfed snake but too large for the eggs to pass through. It couldn't go forward or backward. That was a fatal mistake.
Holy Cow, post: 440021, member: 50 wrote: A snake story from 60 years ago, plus or minus a few years. My mother went to the chicken house to gather eggs and found a black snake stuck in the nesting boxes. It had consumed one or two eggs in one box, then slipped through an open knothole in the divider board into the next box and consumed another egg or two. The knothole was larger than the unfed snake but too large for the eggs to pass through. It couldn't go forward or backward. That was a fatal mistake.
I had a black snake I could never catch that was wreaking havoc in my chicken house years ago. The kids would see it every now and again and the hens took to roosting in the trees instead of their crates. Momma Cash came to visit us all and I related the story to her. In a half hour she had an empty whole egg shell (she had blown out the liquid using small holes she chipped at each end) and she filled it full of table salt. She instructed me to put the egg in one of the hen's crate.
The next morning I found a rather large (and rather dead) black snake halfway through the chicken wire. The bulging egg kept him from making it all the way through....and I guess his overdose of NaCl did him in.
paden cash, post: 440027, member: 20 wrote: I had a black snake I could never catch that was wreaking havoc in my chicken house years ago. The kids would see it every now and again and the hens took to roosting in the trees instead of their crates. Momma Cash came to visit us all and I related the story to her. In a half hour she had an empty whole egg shell (she had blown out the liquid using small holes she chipped at each end) and she filled it full of table salt. She instructed me to put the egg in one of the hen's crate.
The next morning I found a rather large (and rather dead) black snake halfway through the chicken wire. The bulging egg kept him from making it all the way through....and I guess his overdose of NaCl did him in.
That is such a good idea! Did she come up with that herself or was it a old time method?
JaRo, post: 439674, member: 292 wrote: I prefer the pictures with the scale system installed.
My wife has been at it again.
Is the one on the top a coral snake? I can't tell from the pic if it has any red on it, but the black nose with the yellow stripe behind it sure looks like one.:cool:
imaudigger, post: 440467, member: 7286 wrote: That is such a good idea! Did she come up with that herself or was it a old time method?
Apparently an old trick from her upbringing. Mama was full of little nuggets of wisdom.
FL/GA PLS., post: 440469, member: 379 wrote: Is the one on the top a coral snake? I can't tell from the pic if it has any red on it, but the black nose with the yellow stripe behind it sure looks like one.:cool:
Yes it is. Red on yella kill a fella, red on black friend of jack. No clue who jack is.
The thing about snakes is THEY think WE are threatening THEM!
JaRo, post: 440505, member: 292 wrote: Yes it is. Red on yella kill a fella, red on black friend of jack. No clue who jack is.
Living in Florida my take is if it's nose red it's a Scarlet King Snake, if it's black it's a Coral Snake. Both of which are extremely timid however if a Coral Snake feels endangered it may bite but it has to "chomp down and chew" before it can inject the neurotoxin it contains. BTW, Scarlet King Snakes kill and consume Coral Snakes. 😎
