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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 19, 2021 17:31:20 GMT
>>>NOTE: On Edit: I re-edited these two images to make the snake more true to his real color. "Know your Snakes" ; I saw a book by that title somewhere several years ago; it might have been one of those cranberry guys reading it. After perusing hundreds of Kentucky snake identification photos, I suspect he is a King Snake, but not enough to declare him a King Snake; if anyone can identify him or has a better guess than mine, please enlighten me. Although he looks as big as an Anaconda, he might be eighteen inches and was no bigger around than a pencil. This slim dude could have crawled through the keyhole. Monday_11-October-2021   |
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Post by whippet on Oct 19, 2021 19:25:36 GMT
Handsome looking fellow. At first quick glance, he looked blue in colour. I hope it is the gravel which causes that - and not my eyes playing up again.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 19, 2021 19:49:54 GMT
Handsome looking fellow. That's what Eve said and look where that got us.....At first quick glance, he looked blue in colour. I hope it is the gravel which causes that - and not my eyes playing up again. It must be the camera and the light; I thought he looked more black and white, rather than the blue and almost yellow of the photo. Although he is a little bitty dude, he is not the smallest snake I have found around here; a few years ago, I found a tiny, maybe six inches, green snake caught in a spider web. Most of the snakes around here are big fat six-footers and larger; Cow Snakes, we call them; run over one in the truck and it feels like you ran over a log. I was in my hay barn one day and it felt like I was being watched; I looked over my head and there were at least five laying on top of the rafters in the 1-5/8" spaces between the metal and rafter. How they ever got up there is a mystery to me. The Gum lathe is 1-5/8" thick and on two foot centers. The only thing I can figure is that they started at the plate and worked their way from lathe to lathe to get where they were. I sure didn't need one of them dropping around my shoulders. About a half-dozen geese will rid a place of snakes in short order; a goose will grab a snake behind the head and pop him like a whip = no more snake. Guineas and Peacocks will get rid of them as well, but they won't tackle the really big ones like a goose will. Be it goose, guinea, or peacock, I think they actually eat the smaller reptiles and amphibians; one thing is for sure, they will thin such vermin out in short order. |
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Post by jackscrap on Oct 19, 2021 21:18:55 GMT
Can’t help you with identifying this snake, but it has quite beautiful markings. Snake season has just begun here as the weather starts warming up and they start coming out of hibernation, always on the lookout for tiger and brown snakes along the paths next to the creeks where they like to sun themselves and give walkers a fright.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 19, 2021 23:44:19 GMT
Snake season has just begun here as the weather starts warming up So it is true that your seasons are six months behind/ahead of ours ? You guys have Spring while we are in Fall and Summer while we are in Winter ? Is this an Equator thing and everywhere on the other side of the Equator is opposite to us Northerners ? ; or is it just an Australian thing ? I need to read National Geographic more often and not just look at the pictures. |
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Post by kdcintx on Oct 20, 2021 2:50:59 GMT
May be a garter snake
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 20, 2021 3:34:28 GMT
I wondered if it might be, but all the images I find of a Garter Snake have one or more continuous stripes along their length. It still could be as there must be a gazillion varieties of Garter Snakes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garter_snake |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 20, 2021 3:45:58 GMT
If you think the photo is showing too much blue, then the Eastern Black Kingsnake is close to your critter. Snakes are okay, but I still jump when a garter snake crosses my path! Ahhh jackscrap, have heard about your brown snake. Nasty beast! Plop! |
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Post by jackscrap on Oct 20, 2021 5:26:20 GMT
Snake season has just begun here as the weather starts warming up So it is true that your seasons are six months behind/ahead of ours ? You guys have Spring while we are in Fall and Summer while we are in Winter ? Is this an Equator thing and everywhere on the other side of the Equator is opposite to us Northerners ? ; or is it just an Australian thing ? I need to read National Geographic more often and not just look at the pictures. Absolutely correct, Summer starts on Dec 1st here, we are currently in Springtime, a very nice time of year. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 20, 2021 8:40:26 GMT
So it is true that your seasons are six months behind/ahead of ours ? You guys have Spring while we are in Fall and Summer while we are in Winter ? Is this an Equator thing and everywhere on the other side of the Equator is opposite to us Northerners ? ; or is it just an Australian thing ? I need to read National Geographic more often and not just look at the pictures. Absolutely correct, Summer starts on Dec 1st here, we are currently in Springtime, a very nice time of year. I just can't wrap my mind around that; it's like them people that drive on the wrong side of the road. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 20, 2021 8:49:17 GMT
If you think the photo is showing too much blue, then the Eastern Black Kingsnake is close to your critter. In the flesh, that snake was more black. I don't know if it was because the lens was about six inches from him and maybe the glossy-black metal wall just out of the picture with the sun hitting it played with the light. The book says King Snakes are snake killers; maybe that is why I have seen less snakes this year than I normally do; a big granddaddy King Snake may have moved in and ate them all and this little bitty one is an offspring. |
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Post by jackscrap on Oct 20, 2021 10:37:30 GMT
BuckSkin, well we do drive on the left side of the road down under, just like in the UK, a hangover from the colonial days.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 20, 2021 18:06:16 GMT
BuckSkin , well we do drive on the left side of the road down under, just like in the UK, a hangover from the colonial days. I would be an absolute nervous wreck, whether I was driving or riding. The British insist on mounting a horse on the left; of all the Masterpiece Classic TV that I have watched, I am almost certain that when two riders meet, they always meet on the right; I wonder what on earth possessed them to mount their cars on the right and meet on the left? I want to visit Australia some day, but you are driving and I want a blindfold, else I might panic and cause us to wreck. |
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Post by jackscrap on Oct 20, 2021 20:53:18 GMT
BuckSkin, don’t know much about riding horses, but watching them race is something that happens a lot in my household, must take more notice when the jockeys are in the mounting yard. I’d be happy to drive when you come to visit, you’ll miss a lot with a blindfold on though! Don’t hold your breath about getting into Australia anytime soon....
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 21, 2021 0:41:09 GMT
If you think the photo is showing too much blue, then the Eastern Black Kingsnake is close to your critter. I just now doctored the two photos to make the snake more his natural color; he ain't nearly so flamboyant now. Of all the hundreds of snakes I looked at, the Black Kingsnake was closest I saw; but still, this snakes markings are somewhat unique to any I saw. |
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