What kind of snake is this?

[alk747triodad]

Just FYI...most snake bites happen trying to kill a snake.
They usually only bite (strike) when they feel threatened or are protecting a nest.

That is my thought process David! Leave them alone and I won't get bit!

Snakes don't really bother me, probably cause I see them all the time. Most are just garden snakes that the cats bring up and play with til they are dead anyway. And we have a lot of black snakes around the house; which most people know is a good thing. Now with that said, a snake can sure scare the crap out of me when I, unknowingly, come across one.

This snake was just shy of 3 feet and my daughter saw it first. When I went to look, it was gone, hidden in the rocks or under the walkway. About a half hour later, that pic is how I found it. I walked by it about 5 times and it didn't seem to care. Of course I always stayed about 5 feet away!

 

[lt1fire]

Never had a problem catching snakes.

We used to get lots of California Kings back home and the occasional rattler back home. Depending on where the rattler was on my mom's property i'd kill it or catch it and take it deep into the hills.

Along with that we cot all the big desert lizards, scorpions, black widows and tarantulas.

I think the scorpions were the only things that really bothered me because they were really good at blending in with things.

 

[lowtops]

My Dad had several black snakes that lived under his storage shed over the years. He has always kept a garden and they were good about keeping small animals out of the garden.

Two stories:

#1 One time my Dad asked Mom to go to the shed and grab the hose pipe (garden hose for you yankees . A couple of minutes later she runs out of the shed screaming bloody murder. We thought she hurt herself. Turns out when she grabbed the garden hose it moved. One of those black snakes had draped himself over a couple of hooks in the shed and at a glance Mom thought it was the hose pipe.

#2 One snake in particular we would see cross the road and head to the backyard, to his home under the shed. We saw this happen several times always coming from the same direction. One day Dad and I were talking to the neighbor four houses away that had a pigeon coop. The neighbor was happy to show off his pigeons. He then started talking about having problems with snakes eating his pigeons and eggs. My Dad just listened the whole time and kept his mouth shut. We still laugh about that one. The neighbor ended up killing that snake, but sure enough the next year there was another black snake taking up residence under Dad's shed.

 

[GarnerFJ40]

grab the hose pipe (garden hose for you yankees .

Must be a Piedmont thing, because I never heard it called that until I moved up here from Wilmington....

And the eyes of a stove...