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Title: Snake identification
Post by: Janet Harrington on May 24, 2010, 08:34:42 PM
Someone please tell me what kind of snake this is.  A guy I work with says it is a copperhead.  I think it is a bull snake.
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Marcia Moore on May 24, 2010, 08:44:18 PM
Tim and I both think it is a bull snake. 
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: W. Gray on May 24, 2010, 09:02:07 PM
If it is a Cessna Snake, it is more than likely a Citation or a Caravan.
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Diane Amberg on May 24, 2010, 09:19:35 PM
Not a copperhead. Their color patches are more red, larger, plainer and not so busy. I vote bull snake.
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: sixdogsmom on May 24, 2010, 09:45:49 PM
Not a copperhead, look at the long skinny tail. This is a good snake, he eats copperheads and mice. Don't kill it!
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: W. Gray on May 24, 2010, 10:07:15 PM
If it has a triangular shaped head, better stay away.
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Janet Harrington on May 25, 2010, 12:22:06 AM
We don't kill snakes out here.  We try to leave them alone and let them go away if possible.  Anyway, on facebook, we all agree it is a bull snake, not a copperhead.  It was a small snake, about 1.5 feet long.  I got as close as I was going to get.  Anyway, it left on its own.

Waldo, it could have been a Cessna Skycatcher which is the smallest plane we make.  LOL
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Delbert on May 25, 2010, 06:08:55 AM
Was it a snake in the grass?
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Delbert on May 25, 2010, 06:11:07 AM
It could be a sneaky snake, be careful cause he will drink all of your rootbeer.  Tom T. Hall.
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Dee Gee on May 25, 2010, 06:19:02 AM
It is a BAD snake because all good snakes are dead ones.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: mayflower on May 25, 2010, 07:35:43 AM
Janet-  We had one in the yard yesterday that the Substitute Schwans man saw.  Seaton identified it for me as a bull snake. 
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: painted on May 25, 2010, 08:20:03 AM
I think bull snakes are to be good mousers. If they are in the barn in a place that i don"t go much, i leave them be.
If they are neer the parking area, house, or chickens, It's off with their heads! People being around doesn't seem
to bother them much.



Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Jane on May 25, 2010, 08:45:09 AM
Janet,
I can evern answer this one since it is not in front of me and I am pounding it will a shovel. It is in the family of the bull snake.  A Copperhead has more of a round design and bright copper, like a new penny.
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: jarhead on May 25, 2010, 09:21:30 AM
Ol Sarge says that aint a snake. that's the size of worm he uses for fish bait---but we all know how windy ol Sarge is !!!
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: frawin on May 25, 2010, 09:28:11 AM
Definitely a Bullsnake, a Copperhead has much brighter distinct colors. When I worked for the Dentons they kept Blacksnakes and Bullsnakes in and around the buildings and noone was to bother them. Many times I would reach up to turn the light switch on in the Barn south of town and there would be a big snake laying on the 2x4 next to the light switch. As Guy would always remind me, "you don't see any rats or mice around the buildings".
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Sarge on May 25, 2010, 09:30:35 AM
Quote from: jarhead on May 25, 2010, 09:21:30 AM
Ol Sarge says that aint a snake. that's the size of worm he uses for fish bait !!!

That's true!
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Rudy Taylor on May 25, 2010, 02:43:13 PM
One thing for darn sure: It's not a trouser snake.
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Teresa on May 25, 2010, 02:56:16 PM
hahahahahahahaha~~~ For the love of the lord!  hahahahahahahahahaha
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Diane Amberg on May 25, 2010, 03:16:40 PM
No class around here, no class at all. >:(     ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Sarge on May 26, 2010, 03:45:19 PM
You're wrong Diane. There's a lot of class here, just very little couth.
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Catwoman on May 26, 2010, 07:18:33 PM
Now, there's a term from my childhood...It's one of the many that you never hear in the modern lexicon...It's right up there with:  Gentleman...Lady....Curmudgeon...Shame...Disgrace...Being ashamed...Setting a good example...

Someone needs to start a thread where we could list words/terms that have disappeared from general use...Or not.  It's too close to summertime to be starting up any thread where a body might be forced to have to think...
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Janet Harrington on May 29, 2010, 02:19:09 AM
Thank you all for your responses.  It was not a grass snake because it was on the concrete, silly.  As for the trouser snake remark, all I can say is this... Rudy, the things you think of.  LOL
Title: Re: Snake identification
Post by: Diane Amberg on May 29, 2010, 02:56:51 PM
Well, now I know that slinky fellow had to be a Bull Snake. For sure it started a line of bull that goes from here to Kansas City! ;) ;D ;D