Beware of SNAKES !

That's awesome Mr. Charmer. Nice looking one, must have just shed.

 

It finally happened and we had our first snake we had to deal with on the property. One of the biggest snakes I have dealt with as well. My neighbor Marv was driving past our place and saw a ginormous rattler putting up the road towards our house. This dude could eat our puppy! Marv jumped on his quad and came back over and together we found him and unfortunately I needed to end him. Out on the trail, live and let live. At the castle, no bueno. Marv said it was a Timber rattler. Sorry Ssssssnakes.

 

That's good eatin' in Arkansas.

 

Ah, shucks. You gotta do what you gotta do.

Timber rattlers are the prettiest of the rattlers to me. The species is on my dream list for encounters. Now I know where to find them....

@Mikie, the skin would make a heck of a nice looking band around a hat.

 

That's one big rattler!
Stay safe @Mikie l

 

Came across a beautiful California king snake yesterday. I would guesstimate it to be around 4 ft long. Biggest one I have ever seen.

 

I’ve never seen one in the wild. Such cool snakes. I was riding behind Tony last year and one crossed the trail right in front of him.
I missed it. We looked for it in the brush but couldn’t find it.

 

I grew up in Fullerton long before the Fully Loop existed. We used to ride our Stingrays thru all of the open fields and hike down into crevices to the random pieces of wood or abandoned Model T that might harbor a snake or two. I'd guess we had 80% Gopher snakes, 19% King snakes, 1% Red Racers. We probably caught over 100 snakes in 5 fun summers. Hard to believe that we never saw or heard a Rattler out there. Fun to grow up in the land of the Orange groves and oil fields. Keep the pictures coming!

 

I removed this 2.5' Southern Pacific Rattler from a friend's property this evening.

 

I used to capture snakes and release them. Then I started chasing the baby rattlers off the trail by banging my front wheel. One time I found a Mojave Green and dispatched it with a shovel, I tossed it 30 feet into the desert. Right now I am seeing 100% gophers but that will change.
Happy snake trails

 

Copperhead


A rough green snake. Was on the side of the road and I assume he was run over by something. Their skin turns blue after they die.

 

Had a Copperhead on my back porch right next to the back door last Wednesday evening. Didn’t even know what it was. It looked exactly like this one. I snagged it with my snake grabber and took it for a walk to the end of the property. He comes back, and it’s a different walk.

 

@SnakeCharmer got a couple for you. What are they? This one is tiny and in a Tupperware bowl. He was just inside my back door. Prolly 2 1/2 inches?


This one was this morning. Maybe 12 inches? That is 3/4” rock he is laying on.

 

^^^ Wow - snaky at your house!

 

Brothah, I live in a forest in the middle of nowhere right smack in the middle of… nowhere. We got EVERYTHING!

 

Second one sure looks like a western diamondback at least from my phone.

 

The tiny one could be a Smooth Earth snake. The lower one is a Great Plains Rat Snake which is popular in the pet trade. Nice finds!

 

Someone needs cats....

 

So neither are poisonous. My puppy went through snake avoidance training and apparently it did little to no good.

Thank you!

 

We have our own SnakeCharmer up here.

 

I’m more concerned with the ghost behind her

 

Oh my, that's creepy and worse than any snake!

But the pic begs the question, did she use the 9 or the Hoe to take out the reptile?

 

Madera County Sheriff....... she bit the head off.

 

Country Gals are tough! I'd make an off color joke here, but she is a Sheriff, and this is a family site

 

LOL, I've never seen a S.O. deputy do a fashion pose before.

She's wife material for sure!

 

That's the snake's soul coming to haunt her.

 

This is not my video... The stomping you hear in the background is brought to you by our very own @herzalot . He can fill in the details...

To me, it looks like a good sized specimen!

 

Ahhhh, the old "stomp the feet" routine...

 

Forget the snake, and the ghost… she’s hot!

 

It's not nice to call her that when you don't even know her!