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bsharf
Palm Coast, FL (Zone 9a)
February 10, 2007 7:15 PM Post #3175523
| Opps. Sorry- I thought that I was putting this on the Wildlife forum. I'll repost it. Just a senior moment!
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bsharf
Palm Coast, FL (Zone 9a)
February 10, 2007 7:31 PM Post #3175564
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DebinSC
Summerville, SC (Zone 8a)
February 10, 2007 8:50 PM Post #3175734
| LOL! Bsharf: If I saw that in the shruberry they'd have to call the EMT's to resuscitate me!! :)
(I saw the subject line and just had to look. )
Deb |
halo
Citra, FL
February 10, 2007 10:50 PM Post #3176039
| Omg...Id die if I saw that too...but he is beautiful. |
trois
Santa Fe, TX (Zone 9b)
 February 12, 2007 1:55 AM Post #3180110
| Gulf Coast Ribbon Snake. 
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trois
Santa Fe, TX (Zone 9b)
February 12, 2007 1:57 AM Post #3180114
| Potty snake. Found in potty after I took a hot shower. 
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Murmur
Whidbey Island, WA (Zone 7a)
February 12, 2007 2:37 AM Post #3180262
| Oh, my. Better your house(s) than mine!!! I love my little garter snakes, but that's IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great photos, I must say. |
trois
Santa Fe, TX (Zone 9b)
February 12, 2007 2:54 AM Post #3180305
| It was a bit exciting at the time. |
pelletory
Marlton, NJ
February 12, 2007 3:20 AM Post #3180352
| I'm sure! He's a beauty!! Nice pic! |
lilyfantn
Kingsport, TN (Zone 6b)
February 12, 2007 10:38 AM Post #3180613
| OMG trois!!! I'm fainting here - are you really serious?? You actually found that snake in your house... in the commode?!! What kind of snake is that? It sure looks poisonous to me (shiver). From now on I'm not venturing into my bathroom without a big stick... or better yet, hubby first. LOL! |
daiseycat
Assonet, MA (Zone 6b)
February 12, 2007 2:16 PM Post #3181059
| "potty snake" that's hysterical. Great pic. |
trois
Santa Fe, TX (Zone 9b)
February 12, 2007 2:46 PM Post #3181166
| Yes, I am serious. We live in a remote location with a private septic field. The ground had cracked at the time allowing entry for the snake. Neither my wife of myself are afraid of snakes, just careful. She had to hand me my camera as I had no clothes on and was holding the snake in the grabber with one hand. Thank goodness for autofocus. I carried the snake out onto our porch and released it unharmed. Never saw it again. I sent pictures to a herp expert but they were unable to get an ID. The dark bar across it's head ruled out several likely types.
My wife had a severe laughing fit about the entire thing. |
Murmur
Whidbey Island, WA (Zone 7a)
February 12, 2007 6:53 PM Post #3181891
| LOL - I can only imagine . . . I just know I would adore your wife!!! |
ceejaytown
The Woodlands, TX (Zone 9a)
February 12, 2007 7:46 PM Post #3182064
| Man, that looks so much like a copperhead! |
gardenglory
Gainesville, FL (Zone 9a)
February 12, 2007 8:08 PM Post #3182118
| THAT, is exactlly why, no matter how asleep i am, there will be sitting without a looksy. I would have just flat out gone crazy. I thought putting my hand under my pillow after laying down and turing out the lights, and finding a dead squirrel, courtesy of the cat, was bad. |
Murmur
Whidbey Island, WA (Zone 7a)
February 12, 2007 8:10 PM Post #3182125
| Ewwwwwwwwww, Gardenglory - that would definitely have been bad, too!!!!!!!!! |
bsharf
Palm Coast, FL (Zone 9a)
February 12, 2007 10:19 PM Post #3182574
| Well I had to laugh at Trois' potty snake. That snake looks like an Eastern Milk Snake. I have to relate 2 of my snake encounters, from when we were homesteading on a mountaintop in central PA. When we cleared our land for our cabin, we uncovered a black snake hibornatorium, so we knew that they were all over the place. I had a big garden, and one day I was kneeling on the ground picking strawberries. I felt what I thought was a hose under the leaves. It was the biggest black snake that I had ever seen: boy did I jump. I made my DH take the snake over the mountain. Our barn didn't have electricity, so it was always quite dim inside. One evening I was collecting eggs, and stepped on what looked with a piece of hose. It was a black snake eating duck eggs. It was so stuffed with eggs, you could see the lumps inside, that he couldn't retreat. I dealt with him myself, carrying it outside on a manure fork.
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