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THAT WOULD BE GREAT!
THANK YOU!
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Paden went and done it. Combined snakes and ticks in one photo. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
ok..just one more before you hit the hay...
find the snake:
Nate The Surveyor, post: 369416, member: 291 wrote: OK, here you go. Knock it! You really should be careful what you ask for. ..
heck, I feel better after just WATCHING that...
Holy Cow, post: 369415, member: 50 wrote: Paden went and done it. Combined snakes and ticks in one photo. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
see....sounds just like a six year old when you say it like that!
That was a four year-old girl the first time. Then I saw Nate's horrid offering. Not sure how to make it any squeakier but I'm trying.
Sometimes I wish the internet had never been invented. Don't people have anything better to do in life than wait around for a python to do its business so they can catch it on video then post it online? The infamous cow peeing on a flat rock can't compare to that.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 369416, member: 291 wrote: OK, here you go. Knock it! You really should be careful what you ask for. ..
there is absolutely no reason on earth for me to click that link......
Rankin_File, post: 369424, member: 101 wrote: there is absolutely no reason on earth for me to click that link......
You're right. Don't. What has been seen CANNOT be unseen.
Mr Cow, I'm sure that's available too! And, come to think of it, it would would be right up your alley!
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Rankin - Are you just sick of all the commotion about them?
I seriously doubt you would fear snakes considering the amount of "heat" you posses. 😉
FL/GA PLS., post: 369471, member: 379 wrote: Rankin - Are you just sick of all the commotion about them?
I seriously doubt you would fear snakes considering the amount of "heat" you posses. 😉
One of the deadliest North American vipers, the Crotalus Cerastes Laterorepens, (Rocky Mountain Snow Snake) sheds its normal colored skin in the winter and takes on a completely white appearance, much like the Arctic Hare and Fox. This makes it almost impossible to see this species in the winter months until it's too late. All that is visible is his two little dark beady eyes.
Snake reports and attacks in the high country have been suppressed in last fifty years or so for fear of harming the ski season in early spring. Which by the way is their mating season when they are particularly active.
paden cash, post: 369418, member: 20 wrote: ok..just one more before you hit the hay... find the snake
I looked for a while and left the post. Then I came back to ask you to point it out because I couldn't find it. When I came back I think I saw it right away. Funny, sometimes you have to look away and look again. Here is where I think it is:
Tom Adams, post: 369494, member: 7285 wrote: I looked for a while and left the post. Then I came back to ask you to point it out because I couldn't find it. When I came back I think I saw it right away. Funny, sometimes you have to look away and look again. Here is where I think it is:
There he is. A big ol' fat copperhead.
Actually your outlined area at the top left is just a stick, not part of the snake.
Copperheads have a tendency to be fatter than what our brain thinks a snake should be. When you get to see just a "bit" of the snake's body, your primal "snake" region in your survival cortex automatically calculates the length of the apparent snake (so you'll know where he begins and ends). And with copperheads, we're usually wrong. I don't know if this is part of their camouflage or what. Their size and shape is so irregular that compared to other snakes, unless they're on the move it can be difficult to even determine quickly which end is which....a costly error at times.
paden cash, post: 369499, member: 20 wrote: There he is. A big ol' fat copperhead.
Actually your outlined area at the top left is just a stick, not part of the snake.
Funny; I almost added that I couldn't really make out the head when I posted that. The rattle @ the end of the tail helped me get the other end of it.
Rattle? What rattle?
That reminded me of a friend that bursts out with rattlecopperheadsnake, ROTFLMBFAO
I started to answer, "Which one" as at first glance it looked like a couple together......
Oops I keep putting my foot in my mouth. It looked like a rattle on the right side of the snake. :-$
As some of you may well know, it is possible for a human to actually levitate. We call it the "snake hover" or simply "treading air". It occurs when you're walking the woods and as soon as your center of gravity shifts to your foot that is on its way down....you see a snake right where your foot is going to land.
Scientists have scoffed at the concept. However, none of them have ever actually encountered a py'-zen-us serpent while in the throws of a downward tread. I have not only experienced it, I have observed it several times with the crew member I purposely made walk point....
I believe the length of time one can remain adverse to gravitational physics is proportional to the amount of blood-chilling adrenaline that is racing through one's vessels. I saw one fearful young man stay in the air long enough to complete a string of vocal swearing that included not only his own mother, but also Jesus, his mother Mary, AND Joseph. By the time he actually touched the ground, the snake was in the next township.
Once up in Cimarron County, one of my crew members bravely (but instinctually) stomped on a rattlesnake with his foot as they both saw each other at the same time. Luckily his foot landed just behind the snake's head. Immobile and trapped, the 3' long rattler writhed and fought, to no avail. He was hopelessly trapped under my instrument man's foot.
"Gimme a machete!" he hollered as he stretched his hand backwards...not wanting to take his eyes off the snake.
When I didn't react as quick as he thought I should, he cussed me. "Gimme the machete NOW you sumbitch!" His face was getting redder...
I told him he might whip my ass when he finally figured out what to do...but I was having a good time just watching him and that snake!...:woot:
I finally handed him the machete...but it wasn't near as quick as he had wanted..........
paden cash, post: 369571, member: 20 wrote: As some of you may well know, it is possible for a human to actually levitate. We call it the "snake hover" or simply "treading air". It occurs when you're walking the woods and as soon as your center of gravity shifts to your foot that is on its way down....you see a snake right where your foot is going to land.
Scientists have scoffed at the concept. However, none of them have ever actually encountered a py'-zen-us serpent while in the throws of a downward tread. I have not only experienced it, I have observed it several times with the crew member I purposely made walk point....
I jumped off a road bank and landed on a cottonmouth moccasin. I was made aware of this fact when I heard and felt a thud on my boot. Fortunately, my foot was close enough to his head that it didn't have the power to come through my boot. The next thing I remember was standing on the road bank on the other side of the road with the heart in my throat sensation. I always said that to get to the top of the bank I had to unofficially break the World high jump and the Olympic broad jump record simultaneously. But in retrospect, the jump may well have been levitation aided.
