Results 11 to 20 of 23
Thread: snake needs identifying
-
October 28th, 2018, 09:02 PM #11Super Member
- Join Date
- Feb 2015
- Location
-
Doylestown,
Pennsylvania
- Age
- 60
- Posts
- 528
- Rep Power
- 20248537
Re: snake needs identifying
Juvenile black racer?
,
-
October 28th, 2018, 09:20 PM #12
Re: snake needs identifying
It's an older Northern watersnake. They get darker the older they get and before they molt. Check out photo #4 in the link for one about the same color.
https://www.paherps.com/herps/snakes...n-water-snake/Sed ego sum homo indomitus
-
October 28th, 2018, 09:23 PM #13
-
October 28th, 2018, 09:39 PM #14Grand Member
- Join Date
- Nov 2011
- Location
-
Bucks County,
Pennsylvania
(Bucks County) - Posts
- 2,428
- Rep Power
- 21474851
-
October 29th, 2018, 01:52 AM #15
-
October 29th, 2018, 01:53 AM #16
-
October 29th, 2018, 01:57 AM #17
-
October 29th, 2018, 09:28 AM #18
-
October 29th, 2018, 10:38 AM #19
Re: snake needs identifying
I stopped going for evening dog walks without a flash light.
Came across this one night. (No flash used to show how difficult it was to see)
Here it is with flash
"It seems that the Constitution is more or less guidelines than actual rules"
My feedback: http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=305685
-
October 29th, 2018, 12:10 PM #20
Re: snake needs identifying
Well...it's the rodent eating kind (and fish, and salamander, and frog....), but so are rattlesnakes and copperheads. So I don't rightly know what's left to be the "shooting kind".
There really isn't any legitimate reason to shoot a snake in PA, provided that it is outdoors. We don't have Black Mambas that will chase you down and bite you. As long as you keep your head up and pay attention to what's around you, even our poisonous snakes will crawl away from you. Now if you have a license to kill a rattlesnake on a hunt, that's different. But I spend a lot more time afield than most folks and, even in known high density rattlesnake terrain, I've only ever bumped into one snake in my whole adult life.
Perhaps things are different way down south in the bayous cottonmouths, but it ends up that much of the time, the snake that gets called "cottonmouth" or "water moccasin" the most is the nonpoisonous Northern watersnake that we're talking about above. So there's little need to pull out a Bond Arms derringer loaded with .410 shot shot shells to finish it off. Either walk around the snake or get a stick and shoo it away.
I'm 1,000X more afraid of the ticks and related diseases that mice and other rodents carry than any old rattlesnake. Keep the snakes around to keep the population of reservoir hosts down.Sed ego sum homo indomitus
Similar Threads
-
Help identifying these guns
By vicmuk in forum GeneralReplies: 11Last Post: March 4th, 2015, 09:22 AM -
Help Identifying Old Shotgun!
By Everlastingfate in forum ShotgunsReplies: 16Last Post: June 3rd, 2014, 01:45 PM -
Help identifying old gun!
By Everlastingfate in forum PistolsReplies: 4Last Post: November 3rd, 2013, 02:14 PM -
i need help identifying a gun.
By cpthowdy16920 in forum GeneralReplies: 7Last Post: December 25th, 2009, 03:02 AM -
SNAKE, Need help identifying
By renegadephoenix in forum GeneralReplies: 34Last Post: July 7th, 2009, 04:23 PM
Bookmarks