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Thread: Killed a copperhead
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March 7th, 2012, 07:35 PM #21
Re: Killed a copperhead
The vast majority of "copperhead" sightings in PA are actually northern water snakes. Also called "king snakes" and milk snakes" by some locals. See link for some pics: http://srelherp.uga.edu/snakes/nersip.htm These look a whole lot like a copperhead at a glance, unless you've actually seen a real copperhead. They are really spectacular looking snakes if you don't mind snakes.
I don't get upset by one mowed down snake, mis-identified or not. The people who go out of their way to kill ever snake they come across are a different story. Just thought I'd add some education to this necro'd thread.It has to start someplace... It has to start sometime...
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April 27th, 2012, 07:45 PM #22
Re: Killed a copperhead
When I lived down in Tennessee I used to see them occasionally and I didn't think much of it at the time but two years ago I spotted a small copperhead in a drainage ditch near Cook Forest on the other side of the state. I guess this is a little north for them but not too far by the looks of it.
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Re: Killed a copperhead
Back in 1971 I had one near my tent at Fort AP Hill, VA. It was curled up and startled me as I crawled out over it and I hit it with a shovel. It was getting ready to give birth and they birth live, no eggs like other snakes. The little ones looked like lizards without legs as the heads were large. I have seen that one (and it's young ones) and two others growing up in Upper Bucks and several years ago in Lousiana. I have a lot of neighbors that tell me they have a Copperhead on their property. Everyone I have checked out over the past 20 years was not a copperhead but what you described. They were thin in body all the way instead of the fat body and short tail of a copperhead, kind of like a c-130. The heads were small and the color was not the true copper color. I know we had a lot in our area years ago, I often wonder if the large black snakes that came into the area did away with them as I have not seen a copperhead in a long time.
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